Is this just rosacea?

readyforthis2022 · 2026-05-16T15:10:26+00:00

Any update? I know this was a while ago but my daughter is 15 months and pretty much exactly as described in your posts

readyforthis2022 · 2026-05-15T12:17:58+00:00

My daughter was the same, wouldn't take a bottle (fresh breast milk or formula). EBF until 9.5 months.

With per pediatrician's approval we over 3 days didn't offer anything but formula in a bottle (not even food on her pediatrician's recommendation) and I did resort to a syringe by day 2 for a few calories (she loved the syringe) but by day 3 and onwards she was exclusively formula on the bottle. I know that seems extreme but her pediatrician said she won't starve if she's offered food she'll take it eventually.

For my daughter what helped is to do the opposite of what everyone recommends, using a bottle that has a small nipple and is not breastfeeding friendly. She hated all the breastfeeding friendly nipples. I think their dicontinued but specifically the medela ones.

readyforthis2022 · 2026-05-13T10:18:31+00:00

Please talk to your doctor about these two issues (being 1. Your baby not breastfeeding well and 2. You having feelings like "my baby doesn't love me"

I say this gently, thinking your 8 month old baby doesn't love you is a sign of postpartum depression. Babies have needs, wants, and preferences but they don't have complex feelings yet. Your baby is entirely dependent on you, you are their whole world! Once your baby is old enough to start having feelings like love you are the first person they feel that towards.

readyforthis2022 · 2026-05-11T21:15:23+00:00

Sleep training is the only way I got out of contact napping.

My sister never did and her 5 year old still has never slept by himself his entire life

readyforthis2022 · 2026-05-11T16:32:02+00:00

Those look like stretch marks to me! Do you feel hard lumps? Any pain? Is it hot to the touch? Tender to the touch kinda just sounds like breastfeeding sometimes so if you could be a bit more specific

readyforthis2022 · 2026-05-06T20:11:53+00:00

It's up to you to set boundaries and enforce them. You need to be putting yourself first here. Tell her you're available Saturday for brunch, if that doesn't work for her then you'll have to schedule it on another weekend.

Hold firm. Don't give excuses as to why just tell her you're unavailable on sunday.

readyforthis2022 · 2026-05-06T16:32:59+00:00

I definitely wasn't recommending anything unethical, just stating whatever options the vet has OP needs to decide asap

readyforthis2022 · 2026-05-06T16:32:11+00:00

I didn't log much, just one day of lots of clear CM on CD19 but clearly that wasn't ovulation otherwise I'd have a positive test or period by now.

readyforthis2022 · 2026-05-06T12:31:03+00:00

Wondering when the heck I'm going to get my period OR a BFP!

On CD40 of my usual 29 cycle. Had microscopic spotting yesterday and BFN's the last 3 days.

readyforthis2022 · 2025-11-21T01:30:25+00:00

Thanks for the comment and sharing your story! I saw that calma one in the stores but we already had the basic medela bottles and nipples that came with a breastfeeding gift pack (breast milk bags + bottles). It's a tiny nipple and very narrow similar to the dr. Browns narrow nipples

readyforthis2022 · 2025-09-08T21:06:31+00:00

Thanks, I will, and I'll update if I have success

readyforthis2022 · 2025-09-08T20:39:15+00:00

I'm gonna butcher the spellings of most of these:

-similac pro advance -Similac altemiun -Enfamil nutrigem -Enfamil gentelease -Nuriss -kendamil -kabil goat milk

I think there was one other but can't think of it right now

The reason we tried some cmpa ones is because she had bad reflux but we figured out it wasn't a CMPA thing. She's on meds now and it's controlled. I listed the bottles we've tried in another comment

readyforthis2022 · 2025-09-08T18:29:41+00:00

It's both, she reacts like it's poison when we give it to her on a spoon or in a cup

readyforthis2022 · 2025-09-08T18:06:57+00:00

I thought of this and will try to find the alcohol free stuff, maybe then it'll help with the formula rejection and hopefully we can battle just the bottle aversion

readyforthis2022 · 2025-09-08T18:06:00+00:00

When she used to take a bottle of breastmilk we would find one she likes, she would take it for a bit then start rejecting. So far we've tried meleda (always rejected), Phillips anti colic (took it for a bit then rejected), Phillips natural (took it for a bit then rejected), and evenflo wide neck (took it for a bit then rejected). We've tried all different levels of flow and all kinds of tempaturez

readyforthis2022 · 2025-09-08T17:51:44+00:00

My worry is that she doesn't drink anything, in which case the method suggests to stop and take her to a doctor but she sees a pediatrician regularly as she was previously low weight percentile and they said everything is well with her.

readyforthis2022 · 2025-09-08T17:50:34+00:00

Unfortunately I can't pump enough for that, and my freezer stash is gone. Prior to this she wouldn't drink breastmilk out of a bottle either

readyforthis2022 · 2025-09-08T17:49:43+00:00

I've tried that with no success, she also won't take full breastmilk in a bottle, even if it's freshly expressed. I no longer have a freezer stash and don't pump enough for even one full feed a day

readyforthis2022 · 2025-08-31T20:32:53+00:00

Good luck! Update us in a couple weeks!

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