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EAT => Bottle Feeding => Topic started by: Aiden and Marlo's Mama on December 01, 2005, 17:03:22 pm
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How can you tell if you're overfeeding a baby? Marlo is at least 10 lbs now, if not 10 1/2 -11 and today's my first day back at work. DH just called and said she's had three 4-oz bottles ALREADY! (I've been gone since 7 am - so all that in 4 hours :shock: :shock: )
Apparently she's not spitting up a lot because I know he would have mentioned it if she had.
Is it possible she's going thru a growth spurt? (He also said she's only slept 10 minutes here and 10 minutes there and as soon as he puts her in her bassinet she wakes up.
I feel SO VERY HELPLESS here at work, and I know dh wants to do the best he can - but since I'm not there I don't know what to tell him. I just read that babies are supposed to get about 2 1/2 oz a day for every lb of their weight, and that would put Marlo at approximately 24 oz per day - so that means she's already eaten half of that and I'm really freaking out.
Anyone????
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How old is she again? It does seem to maybe be a bit much. The first thing that came to mind is that could she be comfort sucking? From the bottle, thus getting the food as a plus??
THough if it is a growth spurt....and she isn't spitting up...
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6 weeks and 2 days...
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There is a 6 week growth spurt so maybe that is what is going on?
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How did it go the rest of the day? Like Lucysmom mentioned, there is usually a growth spurt around 6 weeks...
:D
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She was a farting MACHINE! My whole house stunk and she was cranky. :? She took a huge poo this morning and I picked her up for her appt with the neurologist (who said she was "absolutely perfect"! :D ) and she poo'd again - felt bad for the people in the office :lol: and she's been an angel since (of course now I'm back at work and have no idea.)
AND - she now weighs 11 1/2 lbs (at her 1 month checkup she had put back on the one pound she lost in the hospital from birth, but had grown 2 inches in length! So different than Aiden when he was a baby. I don't think he weighed that much till he was 3-4 months old!
DH is feeding her to sleep - it's so hard because I don't want to tell him he's doing something wrong(ish)- he's working so hard taking care of both kiddos and working at night, but I guess that's a whole 'nother post...
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She was a farting MACHINE! My whole house stunk and she was cranky. :? She took a huge poo this morning and I picked her up for her appt with the neurologist (who said she was "absolutely perfect"! :D ) and she poo'd again - felt bad for the people in the office :lol: and she's been an angel since (of course now I'm back at work and have no idea.)
LOL!!! :lol:
DH is feeding her to sleep - it's so hard because I don't want to tell him he's doing something wrong(ish)- he's working so hard taking care of both kiddos and working at night, but I guess that's a whole 'nother post...
Completely understand this. :D And I agree, there is nothing "wrong" with it...just not the BW way - but that's OK! :D I do think though, that this is probably why she is/was eating so much. She really wants to sleep and is getting used to the bottle to do it. Thing is, you can't suck without getting the milk :wink: My SIL did/does this as well - and her baby is a little chunker but happy and healthy :D So in this case, it probably isn't "hurting" her....just makes EASY more difficult.
{{HUGS}}
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Well - I "rented" the BW DVD from Netflix (boy was I happy to see it on there!) and it should be arriving Monday - so maybe if I can't get dh to read the book, I might be able to get him to watch the dvd...Keep your fingers crossed for me! :D
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All crossed - good luck and let us know how it goes over!! :D