My 5.5 month son will drink from a beaker but is not taking enough Having had to return to work I have introduced Wilfred to drinking from an “AnyWay Up” beaker. This took him some time to adjust to but he will drink from it. However after nearly three weeks, he is still not taking enough formula through the day and is roughly one feed down. He was weaned at 4 months following the weaning book. He presently weighs 10kg. After no sleep problems since he was 10 weeks old, I am now experiencing Wilfred waking at 5am. Today it was 3.30am and 5am. He will go back to sleep…

At 20 weeks my son still wakes every night despite eating and feeding well Although I have been following CLB for 6 weeks and have also started to wean my 20 week son using the weaning guide for 4-5 months he is still waking every night and taking a feed. He is doing really well on the weaning timetable so I think he is taking all the milk he needs in the day. But every night he wakes between 2.30/4am. I have started to reduce the milk he takes in the night, at present I am offering him 3ozs, but he then wakes again around 5.40/6am very hungry. Feeding him…

My 4 month old is demanding more milk at 10pm and waking early in the morning I have a hungry baby and cannot seem to get the balance of milk and solids right to stop her waking early in the morning, despite still having a 10pm feed. 1 month ago (weight: 8lbs 7 oz at birth) she was taking 7-8oz Aptamil-2, 5 times a day. She then started showing all the signs of needing to be weaned early. We monitored it for a while and checked with the health visitor. She was started gradually on solids at 14/15 weeks at the 11am feed with the basic purees recommended by CLB…

How do I know when to drop the 10pm feed for my 4 month baby? I was just wondering what comes first: less daytime sleep or cutting out the 10pm feed? For the last 3 weeks (despite interruptions of colds/teething) we have been down to 2oz at 10pm but just lately it seems to be putting her off the 7am feed when she’s only taking 5/6oz – normally she takes about 7oz (I don’t know whether it’s all the rubbish she’s been swallowing). I try to top her up with another ounce or two 30 minutes later just to try and keep her on track (she’s not having breakfast yet).…

At 24 weeks, my son is cutting back on his milk and wakes early in the morning I have two problems with my 24-week-old son which may or may not be connected. He has never managed to sleep 7pm to 7am. Ay present he goes to bed at 6.30pm and wakes at 6am, although this has recently moved to 5.30am. My main worry is over his milk intake which has declined recently. He was weaned at 4 months and now has three “meals” a day. At 7am he has 7ozs milk, 2 tsps baby cereal with 1 cube of apple puree. At 11am he will only take 1oz of formula,…

My 5.5mth boy does not like milk. What should I do? I cannot get my son to take more than 4oz of formula and never have. He was never that interested in breast milk and the maternity nurse I had with me told me to stop breast feeding. She left after a week as she said she couldn’t do anything with him and that he would start sleeping when he went onto solids. He’s now 5 1/2 months old and on 3 meals a day and still won’t take any milk. Even if I mix it into the solids he gets upset. Consequently he is still waking in the night.…

My 4 month son has drastically reduced the amount of milk he drinks over the last month My 4-month-old son has drastically reduced the amount of milk he is taking over the last month. Apart from during growth spurts, when he has taken up to 30 oz, he takes only 20oz a day with a lot of difficulties. He hasn’t demanded his feeds for a long time. I am very worried he is not taking enough milk. He happily takes his baby rice at 11am. His feed times are 7.15am 5-7 ozs, 11am up to 4ozs, but recently none, 3pm up to 4 ozs, but even less frequently, 6pm 6oz…

At nearly 5-months-old my son is beginning to refuse milk feeds I have two problems. My first concerns feeding. My son of almost 5 months is refusing his 7am bottle. He’s not crying, but is turning his head in all directions and pushing the teat out with his tongue. He just doesn’t seem hungry. I persist, but he still doesn’t drink. I’ve stopped his 10pm feed, cause I thought that this would make him more hungry, but that hasn’t made a difference. He has also started refusing his 2.30pm feed, but for this feed he starts crying and arches his back. Then when I take the bottle away he still…

My 4.5-month-old takes a long time to take a bottle and he often vomits at 6pm My son has been a ‘perfect’ Gina baby for 15 weeks but always has been quite difficult to feed. Bottle feeding is getting consistently worse – he cries when the bottle is put in his mouth for 50% of his feeds, despite trying him in all positions and in a chair. Remainder of feeds are okay and he will always take a full feed when he gets started (which sometimes takes 30mins); it is getting him started that is the problem! The best time he takes the bottle is at his 10pm feed: there…

My 4-month-old son is not really interested in his 7am feed My son of four months never takes a full feed at 7am; the maximum he normally manages is 5.5oz. This is worse if he has his 10.30pm feed where he may take as little as 4oz. I have tried giving him a split feed but this makes no difference. He has slept through from 10.30pm to 7am since 10 weeks and more recently has also been sometimes sleeping 7-7 following a very large feed at 6.15pm (8oz) as well as a bottle at 5pm (4oz) which he has not appeared keen to drop. His other feeds he will take…