They are soooo not into drinking their bottles. Maybe I introduced solids too early. Maybe they're teething. Maybe I'm just a bad Mom. Maybe formula tastes like shit and after smelling it today, I don't blame them one single bit! Maybe they're intelligent enough to know that milk is much better for them. Maybe my kids are trying to tell me something. Too bad everyone else says that my kids not drinking formula sucks and that they need it for development or they'll be short and stupid and never get married...
So, since they're not drinking their bottles, I decided to take another tactic...that's right...tactic...this is war! When I give them babies their bottles, they are excited. Arms flapping, excited noises coming out of their faces, and truly happy grins. They are happy to put the bottle in their mouth for the first 30 seconds. Then it all goes downhill. They start to play with the bottles. They twist the nipples (thank God I'm not BF-ing anymore...I'd be deformed). They turn them upside down, throw them off the couch, treat them like barbells...how much can YOU bench??? 4 ounces??? So, I decided to spike their food with formula. I empty out the jars of delicious organic (yeah, clearly we're bad parents because of this whole formula thing) food into bowls, stir in a scoop of formula, and feed them as usual. They have no freaking idea. I can't take all of the credit for this...I did read it somewhere, but thank God my kids are going to develop well...thank God formula will do everything that I couldn't do by being a good breastfeeder...please sense the sarcasm. I wish I could have breastfed my kids for a year like a good Mommy, but it just didn't work out. I wish my kids liked their bottles...I mean, what kids don't like their bottles? People have to work soooo hard to get their kids to give up the bottle. Can we just say that my kids are advanced in realizing that formula (while nutritious and all that crap) tastes like ass??? God, my kids are smart...I'm so lucky! ;)
5 comments:
This whole formula shit is overrated...
I am sure that it IS good for them and blah blah blah.......but seriously....I was on whole milk all the way baby.....and I ain't too shabby!!! Aside from carrying around this baby weight....(can I still call it that?)....did you get formula? breastmilk???
Good idea about mixing it in...but seriously I doubt that they will have any harm come out of eating solids only.....SAM
I wouldn't worry. Formula is a relativly new invention. Before formula, if a woman couldn't brestfeed (I have a physical reason that prevented me), people gave their kids milk, sugar water, and solids. I always put formula in my kids' food to thin it down (mind you I blended my own solids).
Being a good parent is doing what you need to do to get your kids to continue to grow.
I always try to steer clear of formula conversations as I almost always get bashed for doing it all wrong. I used formula for my two from 3 months on. At 8-9 months they wised up and did the whole "this tastes like shit" attitude and refused bottles. So I mixed half whole milk and half formula for a week to make sure they'd be okay and then switched them over to just whole milk. They loved their whole milk bottles sooooo much they wouldn't give them up til 19 months HAHA!
When I was trying to get mine to gain weight, I added an extra scoop of formula to their bottles so they'd get more calories (in the early days).
Finger foods will become their (and your) best friend over the next several months (okay years?). You'll never want to eat grilled cheese or fries again.
Do you give them juice? If they're not drinking formula maybe they'd like some juice? (in the summers I push koolaid on my kids that way if they get too overactive and puke it smells better than curdled milk lol)
PS- I think you're a great mother. I don't care what anyone else thinks!
If it helps, Barney is also a nightmare to get milk into. I'm stressing because his breast feeds are SO short sometimes a couple of minutes.
I'm about to move to formula to see if that helps. He's also not a great eater of solids either! I keep trying to remember that all babies grow up and that we'll look back on these times and think how silly we were to worry....
You sound like you're doing great. xx
I just very randomly found your blog and just had to say that both of my boys HATED their bottles or breast feeding ( liquid feeds in any form)...cort( my first son) never liked them - was quite happy with solids and we almost threw a party when we didn't have to shove them down his throat anymore. My second son hated them until about 10 months and then we couldn't get him off them until almost 15 months...go figure.
Anyway, can totally relate to your worries about it... just wanted to throw some unsolicited encouragement your way...yours aren't the only ones and they'll be FINE!!
They are cuties, by the way.
I have a friend who has a similiar story has yours with almost 4 month old boy/girl twins and another friend unfortunately heading down your path( on their second IUI right now)... thanks for sharing your story
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