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Baby Not Feeding
My friend has a 1 M year old baby who is still in the NICU and is not feeding from a bottle She is really stumped about what is wrong with her son because ...
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- Hi, He needs to develop the suck response. Ask the nurses or doctor how to initiate this! L. P.
- Some NICU will let the mom nurse. Could this be an option? Or at least hold the baby(tubes and all) while trying to feed the bottle.
- hi my son born 6 wks early and stayed at nicu for a month. he as on feeding tube because he doesnt have strong suck yet. i always spend all day with my son eveyday an...
Feeding Schedule with Rice Cereal?
Should I increase the cereal feedings and take away a bottle feeding? ... You can add a night feeding of rice cereal before she has her last bottle. ...
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- Don't take away any of her bottle feedings since those are actually providing the bulk of her nutrients for the day. What you might want to consider is feeding her ha...
- How much rice cereal you feed her and how often is just going to depend on her. My son is almost 7 months now and has been eating rice cereal and applesauce since 4 mo...
- The ultimate goal by the time she is one is to be feeding her three main meals a day (with a morning and afternoon snack) and no formula. If you keep that in mind it m...
Holding Own Bottle and Self-feeding
Read all 15 responses: "Moms, I have a almost 12 month old that will not hold her own bottle or self feed. She has always refused to hold the bottle on her ...
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- i would mention it at the one year physical. these little things sometimes are nothing but sometimws early intervention needs to get brought in.
- Does she imitate you? I would get myself some food and eat it beside her with my hands. I would also give her the bottle and then get one myself and show her how I h...
- Hi K., I have 3 daughters: 4, 2 1/2, and 6 months. The oldest and youngest were/are angel eaters. The oldest one will eat ANYTHING we give her. However, my middl...
Putting Cereal in Bottle for Nighttime Feeding?
Here is an interesting article about how babies sleep: .... I always started with a breast or bottle feeding, so that I knew my baby boy was first getting ...
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- My son is 7 months and I have been putting cereal in his bottles since he was about 3 months to help him sleep better. He is eating cereal and Stage 2 food now during ...
- definitely cereal in the evening bottle. try huggy diapers too. i used them with my daughter and found she slept better through the night.
- I never put cereal in the bottle but at 6 months they should be eating baby food and cereal (not in the bottle on a spoon) so we backed up our little ones last feeding...
Won't Take a Bottle
I am going back to work in 2 weeks and she won't take a bottle. I've tried different nipples, having someone ... Next question Bottle Feeding Breast Feeding ...
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- My older son had never taken a bottle when he started day care at 3.5 months. He went to home care and after I confessed our bottle failures the lady (who had been in ...
- Are you trying formula or expressed breast milk? She might not be willing to take formula.
- Have you tried the Madela bottles with slow-flow nipples? Or just slow flow nipples in general. They have a differnt shape than normal nipples and the milk actually ...
Breast Feeding Transition to Bottle
The advice I would give you about bottle feeding is to make sure the person you leave him with is confident and will keep trying to feed him. ...
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- I don't know if you can give babies juice that young, but I got my baby to take a bottle by putting 2 oz juice, 4 oz water in it. It took FOREVER to get her to reali...
- I had the same problem with my now 6 month old. Make sure you use a nipple that is slow flow at first and wide at the base, it will take a little bit but he will soon ...
- Sounds like you have been doing a great job so far! Be happy that he doesn't take the binky. I got my son on it at an early age and regretted it later. As for the b...
Breast Feeding to Pumped Bottle
Read all 12 responses: "I have a 3 month old breast-fed baby girl. The last few days my husband has tried to introduce a bottle of pumped milk.
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- I know its frustrating. My daughter refused a bottle even after I went back to work. Luckily I worked in a small office a couple evenings a week, so my hubby would j...
- Keep trying, but you might be too late. With my first, I tried giving a bottle after a few months so that my husband and I could go out for a night, but my son said N...
- I didn't breastfeed, but I know even for bottle fed babies you sometimes have to try different style of bottles and nipples.
Bottle Feeding
Read all 6 responses: "I also meant to ask if any other moms have experienced their children not being as interested in the bottle after starting baby food?
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- have you tried the sippy cups with the soft spouts. its still kind of like a bottle but its not a nipple but as soft as one.
- Hey, I was just wondering....how old is your son? My daughter stopped (briefly) taking as much milk when I introduced solid food, but after a few days to a few weeks...
- I really wouldn't worry about it, as long as he is getting enough food and still growing. Every child is different.
Bottle Feeding Nutrition
Read all 14 responses: "I have a 3 month old boy. I'm concerned because he still only eats about a four ounce bottle and totals about 20 ounces a day.
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- I would definitely ask your doctor and mention that he went until 3 after his 8am feeding. That sounds like too long. Did you offer him the bottle inbetween and he ref...
- My child was like that as well and he also was on zantac for acid reflux. But as time went on he began to eat more. I had to change his formula to Enfamil Lipil with i...
- Hi T.! Boy i wish my daughter would slow down her eating! haha. My sister's son sounds just like yours - she breastfeeds him, and he probably only shows interest in ea...
Bottle Feeding
Read all 5 responses: "My son has recently only eating about 4-5 oz of his bottle, prior he was eating all 8 oz. At night he eats 4oz in his high chair and ...
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- My son is 11 months old. I use smaller bottles with him (4-5 ounces). The doctor told me he should take up to 28 ounces per day. If your son is growing well, I woul...
- My 10 month old daughter occassionally doesn't want to finish her bottle at dinner/prior to bedtime. It's usually when I let her eat table food first and she fills up...
- Appetites come and go as children grow. If your son suddenly rejected all food, there would be a problem, but half a bottle of formula, I wouldn't worry too much about...
