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Feeding FAQ: 9-12 months – Weaning/Solids
My 9.5mth twins are beginning to refuse to eat their meals without distraction and every meal takes a long time. What should I do? I need your advice on a subject that I am really confused about. I am sure most of the mothers have this dilemma that I have. With my 9.5 month old twins, feeding is usually a battle. I have followed Gina’s weaning guide to the letter, and it has been quite a success until the second stage. Breakfast at 7.30am: I mix Weetabix or Readybrek with 75mlsformula and different types of fruits such as pears and apples which are pureed, or peaches, bananas and kiwis which…
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Feeding FAQ: 9-12 months – Formula Feeding
When can we stop boiling water for our son? We want to know whether it is appropriate and safe to now give our nearly year old son ordinary un-boiled water in his drinks. He is now using beaker cups and bottles which are well washed without strict sterilization. Our tap drinking water is filtered with a Brita filter. Providing you are careful to change the filters on your water jug regularly, your son can now have water which has not been previously boiled. In the Complete Food Bible it is recommended to boil filtered water for babies under the age of six months.
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Feeding FAQ: 9-12 months – Formula Feeding
Is there anything I can do to increase my 10mth daughter’s fluid intake? My daughter is 10 months old and has very little interest in drinking fluids. However I have tried everything to increase her intake, but can’t get her to drink more than 10-11 oz a day. I have tried different teats, bottles and cups but nothing makes a difference. I offer her water from a beaker but she doesn’t have as much as half an ounce a day. She eats well and enjoys her solids. She was weaned at five and a half months and is now on the 9-12 month feeding plan. Her meals are all home…
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Feeding FAQ: 9-12 months – Formula Feeding
How much milk should my 11mth son be having daily and how can I get him to take it from a beaker? My little boy currently drinks 210 mls milk at 7:00, 180 mls at 2:30 and 240 mls at 18:30. His weight gain has been okay (although only on 30th percentile) and it dropped over the last few weeks as he was ill with a nasty rotavirus which knocked him back off the weaning process considerably (refused to eat anything for a week!). He is now completely better and making up for it by eating and drinking large amounts which is great. I am conscious that he should be…
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Feeding FAQ: 9-12 months – Breast Feeding
My 9-month-old son has never slept through the night and still has a feed My son has never really slept through the night. He is still waking once or twice a night, being breastfed once, some time between 3.30am and 6am. About a month ago we gave up trying to get him to sleep through from a feed at 11pm, as 2 night feeds is obviously excessive at his age!! We decided that the earlier feed would be easier to drop, but he had begun to wake at this time due to habit. We have now dropped this feed, by giving him water and a cuddle, but he was taking…
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Feeding FAQ: 9-12 months – Breast Feeding
How do I stop my 10.5mth son still wake for a feed at 10pm? My baby is 10 1/2 months old and still wakes up at 10.30pm/11.00pm for a feed and we can’t get past that. Plus he also wakes at approx 2.00am but my husband cuddles him back to sleep for that one and he then sleeps till 5.00 when he wakes for a feed. How can I stop him waking up for the 10.30/11.00 feed? He is fully breast fed and takes both sides at each feeds. The feeds are about 15-20 minutes in length at 5.30am, 2.30pm, 6.30pm and 10.30pm. He takes 1 weetabix with cow’s milk,…
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Sleeping FAQ: 12-18 Months – Early Morning Waking
My 17-month-old daughter wakes early in the morning and cries. My daughter is not a big sleeper in the day, but at night she usually slept from 7pm-7am. About 6-7 months ago she started to wake up from her daytime naps crying, then she started crying in the morning too. Up until then she would wake and happily talk and play in her cot until I went to her. Now she is crying before she is even properly awake. If I leave her she gets hysterical. Then about 5 months ago she started waking earlier, sometimes as early as 5-5.30am. We had already changed her to one nap a day,…
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Sleeping FAQ: 12-18 Months – Night Waking
Since illness my daughter of 1yr 1mth has been waking in the night. How do I get her back to sleeping through? My daughter has suffered with severe diarrhea for 15 days. The doctor said that this was caused by a virus. She stopped wanting to eat and I was advised to give her as much fluid as possible. During the night I was giving her 2 bottles of either diluted apple juice or rice milk. We were advised to give her rice milk due to allergies. Her sleeping routine was really affected as my daughter was soiling her clothes and sheets due to the illness. For the last two…
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Sleeping FAQ: 9-12 Months – Other
How can I keep my 10-month-old awake late once a week? I really need to know how to rearrange the routines for my 10-month-old baby. Once a week my hubby and I go to a religious meeting in the evening between 7-9pm. Normally the baby falls asleep on the way but as she’s getting older it’s getting harder and harder to keep her asleep. We usually put her in the car seat, she falls asleep on the way there and then we put the car seat on the pram and leave her at the back where she sleeps peacefully till we get home and transfer her to bed. As she’s…
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Sleeping FAQ: 9-12 Months – Daytime Sleep
My 10 month old wakes early and doesn’t always settle at lunchtime My son is now just over 10 months old and I am considering dropping his morning nap as he takes a while to settle, doesn’t always sleep for 2 hours in the afternoon and is often awake and playing at 6am. Would this be the thing to do? Also how do I manage his routine when British winter time kicks in at the end of October? That means we gain an hour in the morning. Do I ignore this change and continue things with the new times or do I make some sort of adjustment? Your son may…