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Bottles and toddlers
« on: October 06, 2009, 18:17:56 pm »
Bit of advice about bottle feeding my 13 month old please  :).

Jacob has 2 bottles a day - 6oz first thing in the morning and 6-8oz before bed. His solids intake is far from perfect as he is being very picky and we have ongoing issues with feeding aversions due to his reflux and need to give medications hidden in food. Basically refusing any spoons at all - and I finally realised this was due to us hiding his chalky medicine in his sppon fed food. Bit of a eureka moment when he refused to eat his yoghurt with a pastic spoon but would eat the same yoghurt I was eating from a metal spoon. I'm pretty sure it is a textural/ distrust thing from us lacing his food with the med is still needs so much. But at least I know. Anyway, I'm waffling, point is that he NEEDS his milk for calories while we slowly overcome other feeding issues.

But he is starting to fuss over it, especially at bedtime. And I am wondering if it is that the flow is far too slow for him now and he is getting fed up? But he is on fast flow teats already - but has been on the same ones since 6 mths old.

What have others done at this point?

The transition to sippies is a work in progress. I am purposefully not pushing the issue as Jacob is well behind your average 13 months old with feeding issues after all the reflux. He only started to be able to drink from a sippy full stop at 11mths old, and only STTN at 11.5 mths when he FINALLY managed to eat enough during the day to not NEED a 5am bottle.

But he also still needs a bedtime milk feed to STTN so I need to find the solution to this fussiness.
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Re: Bottles and toddlers
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2009, 18:19:48 pm »
Liz,

Have you tried straw cups? we introduced those to DS at that age when the sippy transition was becoming too much of a pain and never looked back...
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Re: Bottles and toddlers
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2009, 18:34:54 pm »
Yeah - he can drink from a straw but struggles with a straw cup due to the valve. Making some progress, but again I can't see it being a solution for a little while yet. (actually this is one of my fruit success stories - he drinks fruit smoothies from a carton  ::) but at least he is eating fruit!!)

He does drink good volumes of water or juice from a sippy now, but persuading him to take milk from it is proving as tricky as any change like that. He uses a free flow hard spout cup.
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Re: Bottles and toddlers
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2009, 18:38:03 pm »
Hey hun

Can you pierce a few more holes in the teats you have and that will make the flow faster for him?  I know others who've done that and its worked great!
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Re: Bottles and toddlers
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2009, 19:43:54 pm »
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Can you pierce a few more holes in the teats you have and that will make the flow faster for him?  I know others who've done that and its worked great!


Hi Liz

definitely agree with Shiv- I had to do this with Sophie- I put one extra hole in at this age and another about a month/ 6 weeks later, and then a few weeks after that one teat split one morning during her drink, and I told her there was no other bottle available but I would put it in a beaker- and we never looked back!
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Re: Bottles and toddlers
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2009, 19:50:04 pm »
I agree, definitely give the extra holes in the teat a try and see how he does.  We did this for our DS and it worked a treat.
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Re: Bottles and toddlers
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2009, 19:56:07 pm »
Sounds like a good idea to try - how do I do it though?
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« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2009, 20:12:09 pm »
Just steralize a needle by heating it up and push it through the teat while it is still hot
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Re: Bottles and toddlers
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2009, 14:09:30 pm »
Liz--Chandler is 18 months now and still takes milk in the morning and evening. We switched to sippy cups, but found that she drank less than half her milk as compared with a bottle. So, we've been sliding the bottles back in at night if she hasn't had any milk all day. It's the only way to make sure she drinks it. Plus, with the sippies, she's always too interested in getting the milk to pour out of the spout onto the floor.
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