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Feeding FAQ: 9-12 months – Weaning/Solids
Callum is 11 months and has lost his appetite I feel I’m in a real mess at the moment. Callum is eleven months and for the last few days has refused most of meals only taking 3-4 teaspoons of food and refusing all milk feeds. He has a runny nappy and it is bright yellow, sometimes it is very watery. During the days he is well in himself: happy, running about, no temperature and taking his normal daytime sleeps, but come to mealtimes he just changes and becomes fussy, crying and wingeing etc. My dilemma is that he waking 2.30am-3.00am, very upset and will not resettle without feeding where he…
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Guide to sleep required during the first year
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Feeding FAQ: 9-12 months – Weaning/Solids
My 11-month-old is still waking in the night for milk, but eats well by day Oliver, 11mths and weighing 24lbs never seems to be full. He is waking in the night starving, demanding a full milk feed before he will settle again. At night he sleeps in a room blackened with blinds and curtains. He wears a sleeping bag. He is in a good routine by day, settling himself for each nap and going down with a couple of minutes protest at 7pm. At night I am trying to use controlled crying, waiting 40 minutes before going in. Both my husband and I are sleep deprived which affects our work…
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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
My almost 10-month-old son is refusing his bedtime milk I am wondering about changing our son’s tea time since he has begun refusing bedtime milk. He is now almost 10 months old and is on target for trebling his weight by 1 yr [he is presently 24lbs 10ozs]. He has followed the routines well (other than the lunchtime sleep which we seem to have resolved with a catnap later in afternoon if this goes wrong). Then, at 9 months he got a cold, cut 6 teeth all at once and had a sore- but not infected ear. Everything went wrong: we had disturbed nights and days, he was fussy with…
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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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Feeding FAQ: 6-9 months – Other
I’m trying the routines for my 6-month-old but how do I stop nightfeeding? My son is 6 months and 1 week old, and although he has a half brother and sister (who are both teenagers) they do not live with us. He was 7lbs at birth and weighed 15lbs 9oz on the 4th of February. He is breastfed and, until Sunday, just gone his feeding routine was as follows; he would wake anytime between 5-6 am and want feeding and be ready to start the day. He would feed for 5 minutes and then lose interest and start to chat and play. An hour later he would want more food…
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