Breast Feeding to Bottle Feeding

Hey. Bubba has got two teeth and bites me often enough for me not to like it anymore. Sure I like breastfeeding, but I'd like a bit more freedom, Plus getting my husband and 9 year old to experience the joy of feeding the baby with a bottle. I think six months is OK. Does anyone have any advice on how to go about it. Or a www. site with good information on it. I know that some people just keep up with one feed a day or something. I'm not sure how to go about it or anything. I think I'd slowly like to take him off it!!!! I want to get my body back into shape and many people say breastfeeding. But I'm so hung up about geting enought calcium and stuff that I probably eat too much, milk cheese etc. Let me know what you guys think. cheers. Rozi

When we swapped Angie onto the bottle, we were just mean and stopped cold turkey. It was really hard the first morning, and Angie wasn't interested in the bottle at all. Eventually we resorted to a syringe. I was just going to give up and she just decided she would take the bottle and we never looked back. I did like the fact that we could give her away for the night and not have to worry....more than you do anyway!

We started switching Ella at 8 months, finally gave up the final morning feed at nearly 10 months when she lost interest.
Hubby had to give her the bottle for the first few days as she wouldnt take it from me. I also put a tiny bit of cadburys drinking chocolate (like milo) in the bottle for the first week or so for some flavour, just enough to colour the milk until she got used to it.
Then there was no looking back, she is just finishing off her last tin of formula then she will be fully on cows milk (have been mixing it for the last 2 weeks).

i started giving Brianna a bottle at about 7and a half months even tho it took her ages before she would take it. i was scared to put her on the breast coes she had being been biting. i just use nurture formula but its could that you are getting samples of things.

Rachel & Brianna

I'm not much help on formulas since Maya was allergic to all of them, but Karicare have a great advisory service. The 0800 number is on the side of the Robinsons Baby Food, and the Karicare formulas. They'll send you samples and advice on Goats formula, soy etc.

Thanks guys! All the info is a great help. I'm not sure I'm going to switch to formula yet, Hannah won't need me as much if I do!!!
I'm hoping the biting will stop after this tooth comes down, but if not it's nice to know that I can save my nipples by giving her something else!
We'll see what happens

I did the same thing with Kiya, Maria. Worked for me, too!

That's a really good tip guys, all that talk of biting was freaking me out. Abby already uses on a s a chew toy.

Yeah, I do the removal thing when she chomps... but the teeth seem to make my nipples really raw without her even biting!!!
Arghhhh teeth
There is the odd time when Hannah will bite down hard and then turn around and smile at me. I swear that is her father coming out in her! Devil child.

I was living with my parents when Kiya was little - my Dad would stand on the other side of the room and call her, just to make her turn her head! She'd either drag me with her, or she'd let go, leaving me spraying every where! Dad thought either outcome was hillarious! I could have killed him sometimes!