Fortified bottles/NEED your experiences

27+1/ 85 days in NICU / 1lb 6oz/623g. 28 cal formula/ Maternal breast milk. 7mo / 4mo adjusted!Question at very bottom!!Since the beginning baby has NOT taken bottles well. Spits up/ back arching— acting like she HATES the taste. Just not a good eater in general. She has always taken small volumes (2oz when she came home) and now about 120mL!But I’ve been doing this for FOUR months. And I can’t anymore. Every feed is TERRIBLE and giving a bottle in public is humiliating and people always give their input… (she cries/ is in pain etc)I was talking to a friend who said when they went straight formula… their baby’s life CHANGED. Happy… etc. My husband things the reason our baby is struggling is that my breast milk is thick… plus we fortify it to 28 cal. I am SO tired of my baby being miserable and the NICU/ped.. telling me, “as long as she is gaining weight…”. (She is gaining the perfect amount of weight rn)When we do our one BF in the morning she tolerates it well!!Soooo did any of you switch to straight formula and have success? Did any of you kind of go rogue and wean off of formula completely?? Did you just suffer until they were on solids?? I want to hear all of your stories!** I LOVE our support nurses/drs /nutritionists, but I feel like they just don’t get the human side of all of this!! via /r/NICUParents https://ift.tt/H7iaIJM