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My baby girl is 3months old now. I am about start working back. From last week I was trying to feed formula through bottle, spoon ..she is spitting out. She is chewing the bottle nipple, instead of sucking. How can I over come this and baby take formula.
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Breast milk is recommended at this early age.
You can use a breast milk pump and referigerate as per your convenience.
If formula milk is absolutely necessary - try changing bottle nipples. Baby might behave differently with a different nipple
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Breast milk contains the milk sugar lactose,giving breast milk its sweet flavor.
Thats why she is spitting out formula feeds.
Either u can feed her with expressed breastmilk or
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the closest tasting formula to breast milk is
Enfamil.
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Stick to katori spoon for formula feed. Try formula feed when the baby is hungry. Check the temperature of feed.
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you can express breast milk and keep it refrigerated. it would be better then formula
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