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Rice Cereal for 1 1/2 Month Old
Asked by E.W. from St. Louis
on October 1, 2009
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Hi everyone! My son's pediatrician has asked me to put rice cereal in the bottle for my son to eat all day (not just at night). I have been trying to gradually do th...
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- We had to do this with our daughter at 2 months. A size 2 nipple and a born-free bottle is what we used (since the rice thickens the formula)...she still uses the sam...
- Hello E.~ The only bottles i have ever used are Playtex drop in bottles. I had to use them because both of my daughters seem to choke on any other bottle because the...
- I can tell you that I have 3 older children ( all girls--ages 21, 17, and 16), and I have always been told NEVER feed a baby cereal in a bottle! For when you do sta...
Need Advise on Re-introducing Bottles
Asked by C.S. from Fort Myers
on January 7, 2010
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My 4 month old will not take a bottle any more. We supplemented with her b/c of jaundice and low birth weight until about 2 mths old. Once she was doing great with ga...
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- My ten month old never took a bottle but my lactaction consultant told me to introduce a soft top sippy cup with breast milk on ice! It actually worked and she skippe...
- You may just have to try different bottle types and let someone else start giving them to her. Good luck.
- FIrst off - don't go crazy! I had the same thing with my daughter. We only used a bottle for 4 days during our jaundice. She was breastfeeding great but I decided to ...
Help!! My 71/2 Month Old Spits up 24/7, We've Tried EVERYTHING!!
Asked by L.A. from Cleveland
on June 25, 2011
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My daughter has been a very "spitty" up baby for what seems like forever. I was only able to breast feed for 2 mon's due to a milk duct problem in my breast. We have...
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- how long have you been using the soy? It take the body a month to get rid of the dairy. I nurse and my baby was also very spitty. We did Zantac and then had to switch ...
- I was always told that as long as the child was healthy and gaining appropriately, spitting up was a laundry problem, not a child problem.
- Both of my babies spit up. My daughter spit up until she was 6 months old. But my son spit up until he was 1 year old (when he moved to milk)! He was on Zantac which o...
Nursing ALL the Time
Asked by S.P. from Cincinnati
on August 25, 2010
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I know people say they nurse all the time, but I literally do. It starts when we get up at 8 am and he'll eat for 30 min or so until drifting off, then I'll lay him do...
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- He not nursing that entire time. You are not producing milk that entire time. Therefore you are his human pacifier. You will need to find something for him to suck on ...
- Do you ever pump? I would recommend pumping in addition to breast feeding so you can get a better idea of how much you are supplying at a given feeding. It is imposs...
- Get thee to a lactation consultant! They are awesome. Maybe soemthing to help keep him awake to feed longer or she can give you info about your supply. They actuall...
9-Month-old Suddenly Refusing Bottle
Asked by Y.S. from Las Cruces
on February 7, 2008
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I'm actually posting this for the 9-month-old boy I babysit. He's always taken his bottle (pumped breast milk) beautifully, and he's now REFUSING the bottle. His mom...
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- My son refused liquids when he had a mild case of foot and mouth disease...I think it's called coxsacki virus. And I never saw blisters in his mouth. The reason why we...
- Does he breastfeed fine while in mom's care? If so than it is probably not a health or milk issue it is a nipple preference and one that is normal. If he is eating w...
- This has happened to my girls from time to time. Usually it happens when they have not had a bottle in a while. I would check with the Doctor because the baby might ...
Low Milk Supply
Asked by A.G. from Dallas
on October 12, 2006
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I posted a request a couple of weeks ago about my milk not coming in yet.
Well the good news is...my milk is finally in, but I still am able to pump not even an oun...
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- I was never able to actually breast feed but I pumped until he was 4 months. I used the Medela and loved it. The next best thing is to rent one of the hospital grade...
- My baby girl is 3 mos old. We had some problems initially because she was jaundiced and wasn't nursing enough so my milk supply went down. I got it to come up by usi...
- A., I had the same anxieties when I started nursing my son. I wasn't sure what to expect and there is that constant fear that I'm not feeding my baby enough. Howeve...
Switching Formulas B/c of Excessive Spit Up
Asked by A.M. from Cincinnati
on October 2, 2008
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Hello, I have an 11 week old perfect baby girl! She has been on Similac Advance with Iron since she as about 2 and half weeks after it was deemed that i was not going...
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- My son was on that too and he was spitting up alot, I switched him to prosobee and it stopped, that formula worked good for him
- that happened with my oldest child and i switched her to Nestle Good Start and it helped alot.
- my daughter spit up a lot too, and she was breastfed. some babys just spit up! she grew out of it... put a bib on her all the time to mop up the spit up, and keep ...
Introducing a Bottle
Asked by M.K. from Detroit
on August 30, 2008
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Hi Everyone -
My daughter is a 9 week old breastfed baby. She nurses well and is gaining weight very well!! My question is, does anyone have any suggestions for i...
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- I'd try several different types of nipples. The ones my daughter liked the best were the NUK rubber (not silicone) nipples. Another thing is trying to mimic brea...
- Do it now.. dont wait... My kids were breastfed but got at least one bottle a week from dad or nanny or someone.. If you wait too long she will not take abottle...
- If the reason you'd like to introduce a bottle is to go out with you son, you probably can schedule that around breastfeeding, right? I would say hold off on the ...
How to Transition from Bottles to Sippy Cups?
Asked by C.C. from Los Angeles
on November 10, 2009
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Hello to all the super Moms out there, need your advice. My daughter is 28 months, and will only drink milk from a bottle. I have been trying to get her to drink mil...
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- Someone told me to put chocolate syrup and make it chocolate milk for my dd and it worked. I did not want to give her the empty calories so instead I bought Ovaltine....
- Try a sippy with a straw...
- I promise you this works! Although I used a cup with a straw, it'll probably work with the sippy cup too since she'll drink water from it. You just add a little bit o...
Changing Formulas
Asked by A.W. from Atlanta
on May 28, 2007
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My son has GERD and is on prevacid twice a day. He is extremely fussy with feedings, the dr. recommended nutrimagen as is thought the formula may have been the proble...
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- My daughter went through something similar. The first three months were filled with screaming and crying, she would throw up every drop of formula we put in her, it w...
- Hello A., I had a similar situation with my son who is now 9 months old. I tried every formula out their until i tried "SOY" based formula. I, my self, drank soy base...
- My son who is now 18 mos was diagnosed with gerd at 3 mos. He also is on Prevacid. We used Enfamil A.R. the added rice formula with him and it seemed to work well. It ...
