My daughter is now seven weeks old. From day one we've had tons of problems nursing latching issues and low supply. I'm now almost completely pumping, because I have high anxiety towards trying to get her to latch because 9 out of 10 times I try she ends up just crying and screaming.
So I pump daily (usually every hour to every two hours) and usually half of her bottles are breast milk and the rest are formula. Starting just this week, Rose seems to hate the breast milk bottles! I'll give her a bottle of fresh breast milk and she'll just fuss and cry and refuse to drink it, she even spits it out! Then I'll give up, get a bottle of formula and she'll chug it down like she's starving to death! Up to this point, she loved her mommy milk bottles and ate it like it was chocolate and was disgusted with formula. Now it's just the opposite!
I've tasted every bottle that she refuses, and I think that it tastes fine, even good. I'm not eating anything differently than usual. I'm taking the same vitamins. The milk I give her isn't too old, at the most they were in the fridge for a day, maybe. I can't understand why she hates my milk so much! I feel like I'm slaving myself at the pump to give her the best milk possible, and she seems to hate nursing, hates my milk, everyone keeps telling me how I should just stop exhausting myself, stop pumping and trying, and just give her formula since that's what most people do and because she likes it just fine!
Any help or encouragement?!
So I pump daily (usually every hour to every two hours) and usually half of her bottles are breast milk and the rest are formula. Starting just this week, Rose seems to hate the breast milk bottles! I'll give her a bottle of fresh breast milk and she'll just fuss and cry and refuse to drink it, she even spits it out! Then I'll give up, get a bottle of formula and she'll chug it down like she's starving to death! Up to this point, she loved her mommy milk bottles and ate it like it was chocolate and was disgusted with formula. Now it's just the opposite!
I've tasted every bottle that she refuses, and I think that it tastes fine, even good. I'm not eating anything differently than usual. I'm taking the same vitamins. The milk I give her isn't too old, at the most they were in the fridge for a day, maybe. I can't understand why she hates my milk so much! I feel like I'm slaving myself at the pump to give her the best milk possible, and she seems to hate nursing, hates my milk, everyone keeps telling me how I should just stop exhausting myself, stop pumping and trying, and just give her formula since that's what most people do and because she likes it just fine!
Any help or encouragement?!