This morning I decided to try Kirsty with a bottle of all formula to see if she would accept it and she did! So she is officially now 100% bottle fed! I’m so proud of her! She really enjoyed her milk today, bless her!

For her 3pm feed we tried to have DH hold her and feed her the bottle but she is used to getting fed her bottle in the highchair (I did this to save her being confused by my holding her – she would think she was getting booby). She didn’t accept her bottle being held, so we ended up using the highchair again. This concerned me a little as it makes the bedtime feed awkward. Her routine has always beem to be bathed, fed & put down in her cot. How could we do this if she wont allow us to hold her whilst feeding?

Tonight, I decided to try bathing her, then feeding her the bottle in the nursery as we would have done by BFing. After getting her jammies on, I held her and sat in the chair where I have nursed her for the past almost 7months, and offered her the bottle – she took it like a pro!!

Isn’t she just the most clever little girl ever!!! After 4+ months of refusing bottles, she has become 100% weaned in the space of 3 days!!

Of course, the downside is, my boobs are soooo engorged, so sore I know this will pass, I just don’t know how long it will take. I could barely cuddle my girl tonight as I can’t suffer anything pressing against me. Hopefully I will feel this easing up tmor! (am I being too optimistic?!)

So, this morning, Kirsty woke up again at 5am, this is still classed as “middle of the night” for us, I try and make the earliest time for getting up 6am – of course with a baby this isn’t always the way! I tried to offer her a bottle of milk but she was most upset and so I gave her a 5 minute BF and put her back to bed. She slept until around 6:45am!

She successfully accepted her 4 feeds via bottle and mostly drank around 4oz ish each time. Her bedtime bottle she took 8oz!! She slept well, I heard her at 5am this morning, but simply gave her the dummy and went back to bed> I’m unsure if she went back to sleep or not – I fell asleep – but had she not have gone off again, I would have heard her babbling/crying so I assume she did. We got up at 6:30am!

I used only 1oz of BM per bottle and the rest was formula. I’m so pleased with her progress!

Kirsty slept really well last night, she went down at 7:45pm, we heard her cry sometime after 1am but I’m unsure what time, hubby got up and replugged her and that was her until 5am, I got up and gave her a BF and she went back to sleep until just after 7am. All in all, a good night.

I could tell by my 5am feed that my milk had slowed down again so when I got up this morning I decided I would pump at each feed time, but offer Kirsty a bottle – 2oz BM/3oz formula – and if she finished the bottle or drank some, but looked for booby afterwards, I would allow her to BF. She did very well indeed, she drank most of her bottles at each feed and seemed satisfied. She took a 5 minute BF just after noon but other than that she didn’t seem to “miss” her booby.

I pumped 2oz of BM for each bottle and topped it up with 3oz formula. She mostly drank 3-4oz each bottle. It doesn’t sound much but formula is more filling and drinking from a bottle is new so the volume doesn’t concern me right now. As long as she tries and drinks some, I’m a happy mummy!

In a TMI news update – Kirsty has 2 poos today!!! This is FAB as she has been having a lot of poo trouble lately. I’m so pleased for her, she must have had sore tumtums with being bunged up and I know it has been uncomfortable at times for her to pass her poos.

Isn’t it funny how one person’s likes are another person’s dislikes??

For example, I’m really not that keen on broccoli… Kirsty LOVES it!! She also LOVES peas. But how odd… she dislikes banana?! I thought all babies would love banana! She also had (extremley sour) apricot puree through her porridge this morning and enjoyed it!

But yeah, broccoli? It’s got quite a strong “green veg” flavour to it… but she likes it! I’m glad though, I want her to have as broad a range of likes as possible!

I have an avacado in the fruit bowl, it’s probably over-ripe now but with us having tried a new food in the last few days I was holding off with it. I’m intrigued to see what she makes of it though, again it’s got an “acquired” taste. She’s doing fab with eating solids, she just really enjoys eating from a spoon and enjoys her food!