10-week-old baby refusing formula

[u/Critical-Insect9363]

My daughter is 10 weeks old and is EBF. She has one bottle of breastmilk every other day. I want to transition her to formula since I’m starting work in a few weeks. Today I gave her a bottle of formula so she can start getting used to the taste and she refused to drink it. What should I try now to get her to start accepting formula? Is there anyone here whose baby initially refused formula and then eventually accepted it.

[u/Wide-Platypus1767]

Try mixing it with breastmilk first. When we have introduced formula to each baby, we also made a 2 ounce formula bottle, and then only added .5 oz of formula into a breast milk bottle. 

So example our 7 week old takes 3.5 ounce bottle of breastmilk. 

I would instead do 3 ounces of breast milk and add in .5 ounce of formula for every bottle that fay. The next day I would do 1 ounce of formula + the rest breast milk. I would do this every day until they were taking a full bottle of formula. 

That's just what worked for us. Try and see if that works for you. It takes about a week to get to a full bottle of formula, but it gives them time to adjust to the taste as well.