bottle-training baby iyad

i still have about 1 month plus of maternity leave...i have been direct breastfeeding baby iyad since he was 2 day old..  now that baby iyad is about 7 weeks old, i feel that now is the right moment to train baby iyad to drink expressed breast milk (EBM) via bottle...

so we started to train baby iyad early this week..i put about 2 oz of EBM in the feeding bottle..warmed it in a mug of warm water..then wan tried feeding baby iyad with it...at first, baby iyad was refusing it..he kept on thrusting his tongue out refusing the teat and some of the milk dripped from the corner of his mouth...occasionally he let out a soft cry trying to tell us that he was hungry and wanted to be fed...wan kept on offering the bottle to him, baby iyad sucked for a while and letting it go...

after a while. baby iyad can't stand of being hungry...he took the teat well into his mouth and started sucking regularly in a perfect rhythm...he finished drinking 2 oz of milk that afternoon and was satisfied...he slept soon after...

the next day, i planned to go to work for half a day...i breastfed baby iyad at around 6.30am...i left him with 5 bottles of 2.5-3oz of EBM...wan and makngah struggled to get baby iyad to drink his milk...when i returned home at around 1.30pm, he already took about 2 bottles of 2oz of EBM...that was quite a success...i pumped once at work at around 10 o clock, managed to get about 6 oz with 15 min pumping session..when i returned home i pumped again as i felt that my breast was quite painful with engorgement and then continued direct breastfeeding baby iyad...

yesterday, we tried once more the bottle-training session...this time round, he didn't take it well...and i ended up direct breastfeeding him...

so today, we tried again...makngah had trouble at first to get him on the bottle..after 20 min and a few soft cries and cannot stand of being hungry, baby iyad took the teat into his mouth and started drinking efficiently and finished 2 oz of EBM...phew...! and now fell asleep..

ok baby iyad, you need to drink EBM when mama is not around and we need your cooperation to ensure that you are well-fed and well-nourished..so far, alhamdulillah, he can breastfeed directly from the breasts without being nipple-confused...

this saturday, mama will leave you for about half a day again to attend papa's graduation...so, baby iyad , i'm sure you will drink my EBM via bottle and will give your best cooperation to wan, ok...