In previous posts I have talked about Emree's stubbornness with taking a bottle. To this day she is still refusing to drink ANYTHING from a bottle. I think I have tried 7 or 8 different styles and she still has no interest. I have even tried the beginner sippy cups and no luck! It is a little frustrating for me. I am not trying to get her to stop nursing. She has done great and if she wants to continue to nurse then that is fine with me. But there are days where she doesn't eat as much and in order for me to feel relief I have to pump. This creates the bottle problem...you can only store breast milk in the freezer for six months (unless you have a deep freezer, which we do not). After that point you are suppose to get rid of it....this makes me upset! Silly, I know. I don't mind dumping out extra formula (something that costs money) but the breast milk...it's like gold. Please tell me I am not the only one that feels like this??
As I have been cleaning and reorganizing the freezer, I came across some of the milk Emree refuses to drink from the bottle. I have had to dump out so much! I had a hard time parting with the frozen milk this last time and took pictures so one day I can explain to Emree what a stinker she was!
I think with this batch we ended up dumping out 32oz. That doesn't include all the stuff we have had to dump out before.
I love you dearly baby girl, but I just don't get it, it is the same stuff you drink on a regular basis, why not from a bottle??
2 comments:
That is frustrating! It would be nice to go out and leave a bottle behind! Have you tried leaving and having Troy give her the bottle? That is how we got Hayden to finally take it and Paul warmed up the nipple by putting it under warm water. We read that if the baby knows your there, they won't take it and they can smell you up to 20 ft or something crazy!
I don't know if this is true, but I heard the hospital takes breast milk, but I don't know if you want someone else drinking your milk :) And I totally agree, it is GOLD!
I would used breastmilk in rice cereal instead of water.
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