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Feeding FAQ: 4-6 months – Formula Feeding
My 5-month-old baby suffers from reflux and refuses bottles during the day My son was diagnosed with reflux from 3 weeks old and is currently on infant Gaviscon. The trouble is, that no matter how hard I try and get him established on the CLB routine he refuses bottles, particularly in the morning. He eats really well during the night (he will have a bottle at 10.30 and another at 2.30am) but come the morning he won’t have anything until usually sometime during the afternoon. If he does manage to drink anything it will only be a couple of ounces at a time. I have tried giving him water during…
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Feeding FAQ: 4-6 months – Formula Feeding
My son of almost 5 months is refusing to finish his bottles without a struggle My son, who is almost 5 months, has begun to fight his bottles over the past week, except for the one given at 11pm. He takes 4-5ozs and then stops for winding [which he initiates]. I then struggle to get him going again. He goes rigid, screams, pushes the teat out with his tongue and pushes the bottle away with his hands. Eventually he will take it, but it takes about an hour. He never cries for his bottle anymore and he never seems hungry, not even for his bottle in the morning. I tried…
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Feeding FAQ: 4-6 months – Formula Feeding
My son of almost 6 months has a very low milk intake by day which means he feeds on demand at night For over two months my son of almost 6 months has put up a fight with his milk and taken it less and less willingly. In the past week I have had him at hospital as he arches his back and screams and only ever drinks his whole bottle, if that, at night around 7pm. Since he was two and a half months he started sleeping through the night. In the past three months he has started stirring in the night. Now he wakes nearly every hour shouting…
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Feeding FAQ: 4-6 months – Formula Feeding
How can I get my 4mth daughter to take better feeds especially when we are out, now her reflux is being controlled? From birth my daughter was always very good at feeding and would finish every bottle, until she got to approx 10 weeks when she started to take less and less, and then would start to scream, shake her head and flatly refuse to take the bottle, her body would go stiff; eventually after this performance at every feed she may take a couple of ounces. But when offered water from the same type of bottle with the same teat she would drink this immediately but the moment we…
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Feeding FAQ: 4-6 months – Formula Feeding
My daughter of 5.5mths has taken to solids well but it is a struggle to get her to take 20ozs of milk in a day Until six weeks of age my daughter was fed with expressed breast milk. This was due to latching problems in the early days as a result of early medical problems. My supply began to dwindle and by 11 weeks my daughter was fully formula fed. Once the change from breast milk to formula began to take place my daughter became a fussy bottle feeder and had problems with constipation. Due to this condition I was advised to switch formulas twice as lactose intolerance and colic…
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Feeding FAQ: 4-6 months – Formula Feeding
How can I get my 5mth daughter to feed better in the day and less at night? I am new to your techniques and am a bit desperate for help! My daughter is just turning 5 months old. At 3 months, she would have 5 bottles (6-8.5 oz), approx. 3.5 hours apart during the day, and was sleeping for a good 10 hour stretch between feeds at night (usually 8pm until 6.30ish). Her weight is now around 16lb 7oz. At 6 weeks, she was diagnosed with acid reflux and has been on Infant Gaviscon ever since. We have tried reducing the doses recently – but found that the reflux returned…
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Feeding FAQ: 4-6 months – Formula Feeding
My 4mth daughter is back to having 6 feeds a day. How can I stop this happening? My 4mth daughter slept from 10.30pm until 7.30am at eight weeks of age and by 3 months we were able to drop the 10.30pm feed so she was sleeping from 7pm until 7.30pm which was wonderful. She then got a cold and started waking during the night between 3-5am. She could only be settled with a feed. As this showed no sign of stopping I decided to start with the 10.30 feed again. She only takes 2oz at this time and is still waking during the night. I want to try and leave…
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Feeding FAQ: 4-6 months – Breast Feeding
Will it be possible to breast feed my 5 month baby after a 48hr break I am having a MRI scan in three weeks. I have been told not to breast feed for 48hrs afterwards due to the contrast dyes used. I used to give Sonny 1 bottle a night using expressed milk but haven’t done so for over a month. He has also taken formula on the odd occasion. He enjoys breastfeeding and I am worried how he will take the 48hr abstinence. I have a few frozen feeds of breast milk but not enough to last the whole 2 days. He now consumes all the milk I produce…
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Feeding FAQ: 4-6 months – Breast Feeding
Can a low-weight 18 week baby’s sleep be helped by feeding? We had our first baby, Evie, 18 weeks ago and generally she has settled into your routines, which we have been following since day one. She has always been small and has regularly gained only 4oz each week; she had 2 weeks where she gained 7oz and 1 week where she lost 1oz. Her birth weight was 7lb 1oz and she now weighs 12lb 1oz. I am breast-feeding, but my partner gives her formula at 10.30pm and again when she wakes in the night, around 5am (we introduced formula at 14 weeks). We do, however, have a few concerns.…
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Feeding FAQ: 4-6 months – Breast Feeding
My 4 month baby is not interested in her milk by day, yet has begun to wake at night again Amelia weighs 15lbs 7oz and has been following the 3-4 month routine. A week ago she began to take less milk at 2.15pm (when she is bottle fed), stopping after 3.5 or 4ozs. Even if I wait 20 minutes she will not take any more milk and push the bottle away. I expressed milk at 11am a couple of days ago (when I normally breast feed) and found I only had 4ozs of milk. I am worried that she is not getting enough milk by day which is causing her…
