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Putting Breastfed Baby on Formula
My son refused formula for a while too. He would make a horrible face and .... I hope you are able to pump as much milk as you will need during your trip. ...
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- she'll be hungry and she'll eat. :) for our daughter, we mixed the breast milk and formula. Half and half. I also used Earth's Best Organic formula. She tried others, ...
- I am sure you will get the same response from other moms....the baby may be more likely to take the formula from someone that she doesn't associated the breast with. S...
- B.- I'm a mother who nursed all 5 of my children until they swere almost 2 yrs. old. One of mychildren (the 1st born)never took a botle.) Then I learned-like others...
Advice from Breastfeeding Moms on Cereal/solids?
Thus, if you give them too much, you will be essentially replacing a food source (breast milk) with a non-food-source filler (rice cereal), ...
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- The point is that it's not such a leap from breastmilk, tastewise. Also Rice Cereal is the least likely to stimulate an allergy so in theory it's the safest to start w...
- In addition to getting babies used to different textures and so forth, cereals are fortified with Iron to help prevent anemia. I did not start with Rice cereal, I did ...
- I have twins, too, and I hear your frustration. It is tempting to push this stuff along and try and get more breaks, less breast feeding, more sleep. The whole thing...
Will I Be Able to Breastfeed My Child?
I told a neighbor to do the same and she had to stop, she had too much milk! Granted she had a new born. It really helps around that 5-6 month mark when ...
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- Every pregnancy and every child is very different. I had the same fear with my second child. My first child was so challenging to breast feed. She did not latch on ...
- There isn't any reason to think that you won't be able to breastfeed. Pumping 4 oz is actually quite good! Sometimes if the baby starts to get supplements, then they...
- Find a great lactation consultant BEFORE the baby is born. Interview all the candidates and pick one that you click with. Then, when the baby is born and if you ...
Green Stools While Breastfeeding???
Sep 8, 2009 ... My baby is 4 months old and I have been breastfeeding thus far It is .... the baby is getting too much foremilk and not enough hindmilk ...
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- My pediatrician said the color is based on the amount of time the waste stays in the intestines before being eliminated. I had the same concerns as you but for us the...
- It's always so difficult to figure out this stuff, isn't it? We had issues with vomiting, but only after he was eating solids. It turns out that he has a wheat intol...
- My daughter is 6 months and her stools are always green. They have been this way since they switched from the yellow newborn ones. They tend to be dark green (and th...
Ambivalent About Breastfeeding
He may be taking too much of your nutrients thus making you feel a bit out of .... Your son is old enough to have milk in a sippie or a bottle Try those ...
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- Congrats on lasting this long - you are a trooper! I had a whole list of issues one after the other with breastfeeding and ultimately gave it up after 2 months. So I ...
- it sounds like you are fairly ready and thats fine. the one thing i would say is that it might just be too much to try to wean him when he is cutting 8 teeth. its no...
- I weaned my son at 17 mos. He was also a big guy. I would first recommend nursing him three times a day (morning, before nap, and before bed) Once my son had that d...
Breastfeeding and Formula
I don't know if he is drinking to much milk or drinking to fast but its ..... If they suck in too much air that will make them spit up and also if the ...
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- Hello E. and congrats and your new bundle of joy. I breastfeed my little boy (now 3) for the first two months then I pumped for a month after that and fead him with th...
- Hi, E. I definitely can relate to the spitting up part of your story. I attempted to breastfeed/pump for my kids, to no avail. The longest I went was 3 wks of pumpi...
- At his age, it's perfectly normal for him to wake up every 2 or 3 hours. Giving him formula isn't going to make him sleep more. If he's throwing up after nursing, it c...
Leaving Breastfed Baby for 4 Days. Need Advice!
I exclusively breastfed my daughter too (who stopped bf'ing completely at 2 1/2) and is now 6, ...... Too much stress really will decrease your milk supply. ...
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- I just wanted to say, GO!! I hope you have a great time! I dont really have any pumping advice, I breatfeed but could not pump at all. It was very dicouraging. You sou...
- Hi S., I had similar problems with my daughter, I too used the Mother Milk Plus and had great results but after a nasty cold I had a large drop in my supply. I wen...
- S., I had some of the same issues with my little girl. Though i was not going on vacation. When I wanted to up my milk supply I started drinking malt. I just bought Ca...
How Much Milk for a 15 Mo Old?
I breastfed them until 4 mos. for my first child and 10 mos. for the second. .... So in order to make sure she does not drink too much milk we fill the ...
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- You could try watering down her milk. That's what we have to do for my daughter. She loves milk, and refuses plain water and only drinks one 7 oz juice a day. So in...
- I don't get the response you received about 0oz of milk and the cows milk is for cows. In response to your question I would not give as much milk to her as you do now...
- At my son's 15 month check-up (he's 16.5 months now), our doctor said 32-40 ounces. I stick closer to 32 because I want to make sure he has enough room in his tummy f...
Breastfeeding
Sep 16, 2009 ... My daughter will be 7 months tomorrow I too wanted to breastfeed .... of them needed to much milk and i was not producing enough for them ...
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- Like someone else said, the first 2-3 weeks are the worst but it *does* get easier & won't always hurt. I promise nursing at 5-6 weeks and older is totally different t...
- I would just sit down with him and explain to him how hard it is on you & that you think you want to stop. Guys have no idea what it's like to breastfeed a baby, so j...
- Well, I don't have any ideas about how to tell your husband, but I can tell you that I felt the same way a few weeks into breastfeeding. I ended up sticking it out a ...
Breastfed Babies and Bottle Nipples
Avent - Made for Breast fed babies (Not too easy to get milk from & not so different that .... that too much milk would come out of teh Avent & she'd gag. ...
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- We used Avent bottles with the clear silicone nipples because, at the time, it was the only nipple on the market that had the wide base to flare out the babies mouth l...
- The ONLY bottle my breast fed babies would take for the first year are the platex drop in bottles. The nipples are not the silicone kind. I tried the nuk kind becaus...
- Hello Amy, I used Playtex Vent Air wide nipple bottles for my baby girl. She absolutely loved this bottles. I think the nipple being wide resembles more a natural n...
