Newborn Won't Eat & Cries..HELP!!

[Little People]

I have a DCg 6 weeks old that started yesterday. Yesterday was a really bad day for the baby, she just would not eat much and cried a lot. I tried everything from walking to rocking and she cried on and off most the day. I let day know and also sent an infant gram home.

I ask mom this morning was she still breastfeeding and she said yes. I enrolled this baby 2 weeks ago and the mother was supposed to start feeding her from a bottle.
She ate (breast) this morning for mom at 8am and she is so hungry, I am trying to get her to eat but she will **** one or two ****s and then start crying. Mom has her on Enfamil Gentleease.

Any advice??

[KEG123]

Do you have a medicine dropper? Sometimes it takes time for the babies to get used to bottle. A dropper might help get something in her so she isn't frantic hungry... once she's filled up a bit with the dropper, then try a bottle.

[MyAngels]

This is a big transition for an infant, so she's just going to take time, I'm sure, to adjust to the new environment of daycare. Maybe have mom bring one of her shirts or something with her scent on it so that baby can feel her mother's presence, it may help to calm her. I would also ask the mom if she could pump and store extra breast milk to feed the baby while she's at work, rather than switching back and forth between formula and breast milk. Lots of patience, and she will adjust fairly quickly. Good luck.

[KEG123]

Oh and mom is BFing but not pumping?? Baby might not like the taste of formula. It is SO different in taste that no wonder she doesn't like the formula!

[nannyde]

She hasn't been converted to a bottle nipple.

I REQUIRE all breastfed babies to eat a FULL bottle (whatever their ounces are per feeding) in front of me BEFORE I start them in care. The Mother must come and show me that the child can easily eat from a bottle.

I tell Moms this at the interview so there is NO fudging on it. They can't just say the words "she eats from a bottle" because their version of the child eating from it is often different than our version of it.

They can see their baby once take a few teaspoons out of a nipple and be satisfied. I want to see the baby take a WHOLE bottle without fatiguing. I want to see that the child has a good seal on the nipple and is not ****ing air with every gulp.

When the Mom arrives have her sit down with a baby bottle and SHOW you how she does the BOTTLE. Do that today.

[KEG123]

She hasn't been converted to a bottle nipple.

I REQUIRE all breastfed babies to eat a FULL bottle (whatever their ounces are per feeding) in front of me BEFORE I start them in care. The Mother must come and show me that the child can easily eat from a bottle.

I tell Moms this at the interview so there is NO fudging on it. They can't just say the words "she eats from a bottle" because their version of the child eating from it is often different than our version of it.

They can see their baby once take a few teaspoons out of a nipple and be satisfied. I want to see the baby take a WHOLE bottle without fatiguing. I want to see that the child has a good seal on the nipple and is not ****ing air with every gulp.

When the Mom arrives have her sit down with a baby bottle and SHOW you how she does the BOTTLE. Do that today.

My only opinion on what you wrote is this: Sometimes a BF baby will NOT take a bottle from the mother. Maybe you can do as nannyde suggests, but you could also feed the baby the bottle instead of mommy. Sometimes a bf baby just expects boob from mommy and refuses a bottle.

[Little People]

Oh and mom is BFing but not pumping?? Baby might not like the taste of formula. It is SO different in taste that no wonder she doesn't like the formula!

No, mom is not pumping for me. she brought me formula. In our second interview she was to use formula and a bottle all last week. I do not believe she did. This is so hard on the baby and me.

It is 1pm and she has been crying on and off since 11:30. i will get her quiet for 10 minutes and then she starts crying and we start all over again. I am worn out!!

[Little People]

She hasn't been converted to a bottle nipple.

I REQUIRE all breastfed babies to eat a FULL bottle (whatever their ounces are per feeding) in front of me BEFORE I start them in care. The Mother must come and show me that the child can easily eat from a bottle.

I tell Moms this at the interview so there is NO fudging on it. They can't just say the words "she eats from a bottle" because their version of the child eating from it is often different than our version of it.

They can see their baby once take a few teaspoons out of a nipple and be satisfied. I want to see the baby take a WHOLE bottle without fatiguing. I want to see that the child has a good seal on the nipple and is not ****ing air with every gulp.

When the Mom arrives have her sit down with a baby bottle and SHOW you how she does the BOTTLE. Do that today.

Mom does not pick up, dad does. Mom said dad called her 6 times last night. He said baby would not quit crying. Mom works till 9pm.

[KEG123]

If she plans of bfing successfully, she needs to pump. Her supply will not keep up, plain and simple. It ****s to pump, I know, but if she is serious about BFing she needs to. :hugs: poor baby. I'd personally call and tell her to pick up early if she is inconsolable.

[Little People]

If she plans of bfing successfully, she needs to pump. Her supply will not keep up, plain and simple. It ****s to pump, I know, but if she is serious about BFing she needs to. :hugs: poor baby. I'd personally call and tell her to pick up early if she is inconsolable.

thank you, I just called mom, no answer..so I sent her a text. I want her to come here and feed her a bottle.

[laundrymom]

I would have mom sleep on a receiving blanket to get moms smell. Then use it as shield so baby smells mom. Then make sure milk is warm. Sending love.....

[nannyde]

My only opinion on what you wrote is this: Sometimes a BF baby will NOT take a bottle from the mother. Maybe you can do as nannyde suggests, but you could also feed the baby the bottle instead of mommy. Sometimes a bf baby just expects boob from mommy and refuses a bottle.

Yes I've heard of that but I haven't seen that in my population. I don't care who shows me they can do it.. they just need to show me 100 percent ease thru the whole process.

The other thing I do is require three nipples that have already been used by the baby. I do not accept new nipples during the first few months. I can tell by the nipple if it has been used. I can tell by the baby if the baby has had it.

The baby should be 100 percent bottle nipple trained before they start day care. I don't do ANY nipple training. Moms who take it seriously usually have the baby have one bottle per day minimum every day before the baby starts care. If they are given both bottle and breast from the go they usually do pretty well.

I watched this trial YEARS ago when Court TV was new where a day care provider was convicted of murder after snapping and slamming a breast fed baby who came to her not nipple trained despite the Moms assurance that she was. When it all came out the Moms version of her being able to take it was really not a baby drinking out of a bottle... it was more like a few sips at a time over hours of trying to feed her thru the nipple. IOW she wasn't trained at all.

After days of listening to and dealing with a baby in poor condition because of hunger the provider (who was very experienced and had a long standing business) just lost it on the kid. It was horrible.

I learned a lot from that trial with one major take away is not to accept any words but only action. I want a seasoned nipple ****er and I want used nipples so that when I have the kid the only thing new to them is me.

[Little People]

I have spoken with mom, she is going to see if employer will let her come here and feed baby. I will let you all know. Thank you all for wondeful advice!!

[nannyde]

I would have mom sleep on a receiving blanket to get moms smell. Then use it as shield so baby smells mom. Then make sure milk is warm. Sending love.....

Yes I have them bring me a tshirt they have slept in for three days. I keep it for a couple of weeks and pop it on my shoulder under the burp cloth.

smellalicious for the baby

[Unregistered]

It is not up to YOU to transition baby from breast to formula - the mother needs to do that. My boys were both breastfed and #2 boy NEVER took a bottle. This is unfair to you and the baby. She should start the introduction to a bottle with breast milk not formula as well. It's too much change all at once for the baby.

I don't understand why on earth someone would breastfeed for 6 weeks and expect the baby to take a bottle from someone else easily. If baby won't take the bottle from Mom who smells like milk, then Dad needs to help transition the baby.

I'd tell them that once baby is fully on bottle you'll take her back. Do not put up with this - it's torture for baby and you!