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This is just my opinion....
If she has not had a bottle before, she will probably not take it now. I would not try to introduce formula. I would definitely up her solid intake though. My lil' guy is bf'ed as well, but I give him cereal/fruit in the morning mixed with BM. Then he has a veggie or fruit for lunch and a veggie/cereal for dinner. He's just now getting to where he likes the solids. I always offer, but he doesn't always want it. He sleeps about 11 hours at night but wakes up twice to nurse and then goes right back to sleep.
Is your desire to get him to sleep longer stretches during the night or not nurse as much??? If you co-sleep that could be why she wakes up more frequently during the night. As far as what the doctor said, I would let that go "in one ear, out the other." I pretty much nurse on demand even now. My pedi told me that Jonathan should be able to sleep all night without nursing and that he was waking out of habit and using nursing to fall back to sleep...but I haven't changed how I do things. He only nurses a few minutes and then goes right back to sleep. It works for us.
Anyhow...hope this helps.
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