{"id":23295,"date":"2024-06-09T09:25:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T09:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=23295"},"modified":"2024-06-09T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T13:05:09","slug":"my-baby-is-refusing-formula-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/23295","title":{"rendered":"My baby won&#8217;t drink formula milk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>I am sorry you are having such a stressful time.<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t worry. It is okay to still breastfeed for longer as long as you are producing milk and this is what the baby wants to do. Sometimes it just takes a while for the baby to get used to the change.<\/p>\n<p>This will get you through the weekend, so that you can contact your support teams on Monday. Please also contact your clinic for advice if they are open over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t say why you could only breastfeed for two months.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is generally good to move to formula milk after a few months, there is usually flexibility for the timing.<\/p>\n<p>This is also so long as you don&#8217;t have mastitis or cracked nipples etc.<\/p>\n<p>BHIVA guidelines on breast and chestfeeding are at this link:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/file\/639b0a86a19c7\/BHIVA-position-statement-on-HIV-and-mixed-infant-feeding.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/file\/639b0a86a19c7\/BHIVA-position-statement-on-HIV-and-mixed-infant-feeding.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n<p>I am hiv positive (undetectable viral load) in the UK and could only exclusively breastfeed for two months.<\/p>\n<p>i now have to switch to formula and my baby is crying hysterically and refusing to drink it please help. it&#8217;s been 8 hours since we started trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-children","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23295"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23305,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295\/revisions\/23305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}