At nearly 11 months my son refuses his milk before bedtime Tom is one of twins born at 31 weeks gestation. They both had quite severe reflux in the early days, hence a slow weight gain. (Current weight: 6.3kg) They now receive medication and are much improved, but they have never really enjoyed milk. Tom absolutely refuses to take his 6.30pm bottle. He now screams and turns his head away just at the sight of it. He has three meals a day and is taking solids well. He drinks water well with meals. In the morning he takes his milk happily (6oz). Since bringing tea forward to 5pm about two…

I am concerned that my 9-month-old son is not having enough milk My son is now approaching 9 months and has seriously reduced his milk intake. As he has never been very good with his milk intake, I have been making sure he takes between 16 and 18oz per day since the age of 6 months (previously he was on about 24-27oz per day). Recently this is beginning to reduce even more than the minimum 16oz I want him to have. He takes 7oz in the morning: 4oz on his cereal and 3oz to drink. He has been having 4oz at 2.30pm but this is now causing him to refuse…

My six-month-old daughter has a small appetite for milk My daughter’s feeding and sleeping patters are going completely off track. We need help encouraging her to eat/drink more during the day so we can eliminate the nighttime waking. She was 5lb 15oz at birth and has maintained a slow but gradual progress and now weighs 13lb 3oz at 6 months. I have assurances from health visitors that she is fine, and she has had hospital tests to check that there is no underlying problem. However, since introducing solids at 22 weeks my daughter’s weight gain has dropped and, at the weigh-in last week, she had only put on 1.5 oz…

My daughter of almost 7 months is absolutely refusing to drink water My daughter Ione is almost 7 months old. She was 71b 3oz at birth and currently weighs 151b. She is fed Hipp Organic Formula at 7.30am (6oz), 2.30pm (4-5oz), 6.30pm (7-8oz) and solids at 8am (half a Weetabix plus fruit purée/Ready Brek/baby cereal), 11.30am (7 cubes consisting of fish/chicken/turkey/pork with various vegetables plus yoghurt or fruit) and 5pm (7 cubes of vegetables plus a banana). She is fed 70% homemade and 30% commercial food. She wakes at 7.30am, naps 9-9.45am, 12.15-2.15pm and has a catnap in the afternoon if required. She settles herself at all nap times and…

My 6.2-month-old son is refusing his milk feeds but is unhappy and waking early For the last month, my son has started refusing almost all milk feeds. He is offered a 7oz bottle at 7am and will only drink 4 to 5oz. I will then use the remaining milk to mix with his breakfast which is a whole weetabix. At 11.45am he will eat lunch ( I use all the recipes in CLB of Weaning). He will take 5 cubes of a savoury such as chicken risotto. He is offered another 5oz bottle at 2.30pm and will refuse the entire bottle. I give him his at 5pm; he eats half…

My son is 19 weeks and has suddenly and drastically reduced his milk intake My 19-week old son sleeps well at night (from about 8pm to 7am), although I have to wake him and give him a full feed at 10-11pm. The problem is that up until three weeks ago he was taking 6-7 oz at each of his five milk feeds. However, over the space of about five days, he began to take less and less, and was down to about 2-4 oz from each bottle, except the last one at night which he usually finished. Nothing seemed to work to get him to drink his milk again –…

Low weight gain and reflux in my 18-week-old daughter My daughter Alicia is now 18 weeks old. She is my second child. My first is a boy of 25 months called Jacob. Both children were introduced to Gina’s routines since they left hospital. Alicia took very well to the routine. However, her weight gain isn’t in line with Gina’s recommendations. Alicia weighed 6lbs 2ozs at birth and she was born a week and a half early by elective c-section. Her weight came as a bit of a shock as my son weighed 7lb 11ozs and he came a week early by emergency c-section. Alicia has only generally gained on average…

Henry is four months and irritable between feeds, and too sleepy at 10pm Henry is four months and he is more irritable between feeds, whereas before he was content. Up until the last week he has been contented between feeds, happy to sit in his chair and ‘play’ with his toys, only crying for food and sleep. However, he now seems to cry more in between feeds, I find the afternoons difficult as he is now tending to cry until he is picked up. Up until now we’ve deliberately tried not to hold him for lengths of time to avoid this problem occurring! I wake Henry at 7am, and he…

I think 18 week Alicia’s reflux is making her hysterical twice a day I have some concerns regarding my daughter. She is 18 weeks old and she has two instances during the day where she can get quite hysterical! The first instance is after her morning nap. I wake her at 9.45am, gently rousing her without immediately picking her up. She is content for about 15 minutes then she starts crying and is only consoled by holding her over my shoulder. I would like to try and get her closer to an 11am feed but I am worried that she’s getting hungry. I don’t want to feed her too early…

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…