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8 month old refusing bottle
billysmummy:
Hi Kara & Kendra
How are you guys going - are you having any improvement??
Our DD has at least been sleeping through again. Have fiddled around with cutting back solids but is making no difference to her milk intake. Mornings are around 120ml, afternoons 160ml and then lucky if she takes 80ml for her evening feed.??? I sneak a bit more into her solids and since she is generally happy, content and sleeping well I am just going to try to not worry about it. Difficult when everything you read says they still need 500-600ml milk a day at this stage!
Hope things are on the up for you.
kenakit:
Hi ladies!
I took my DD to the doctor this Wednesday because I just couldn't stand the stress of worrying about her formula intake anymore. She has actually gained a pound since the time I took her in last month and is completely healthy (I asked her doctor to check her ears and throat, they even swabbed her for strep because that has been going around). I guess it really is just teething, and the doctor said that babies go through phases where they are less hungry than "usual." She basically told me just to make sure she's having enough wet diapers and she said to keep giving her solids (she actually seemed really encouraged that my DD is taking solids well, she didn't tell me to cut back on solids like I thought she might). She said yogurt is a good solid right now because it has the dairy and liquid in it. But anyway, that was the doctor's take on the whole situation.
It's still stressful for me when she won't eat much, yesterday was a particularly long day (she only took 1oz for her morning feed and wasn't interested in breakfast, though she was doing a lot better at her evening feeds). And I just want to pull my hair out because it just seems impossible to keep her on a consistent EASY schedule when I'm always worried she isn't getting enough. This morning she took at 5oz bottle when she woke up (first time in weeks!), so I'm hoping that will set the tone for the rest of the day. Since she's been proclaimed healthy I think I am just going to get her back on an EASY routine (we are totallllllly off track right now) and stop worrying about forcing her bottle on her sporadically throughout the day.
Kara, I'm sorry your DD is still not taking her bottles well :( My DD definitely isn't doing fantastic either, and I have no idea when her next teeth will come in ahhhh! Nobody ever told me teething would be this bad, but from what I can tell it's way more common than I thought. I hope things start looking up for all of us very soon!
*Kara*:
I have a crazy update! Alexandra started to refuse everything yesterday morning and then started to get really cranky... by lunch time, it was starting to really scare me... I couldn't calm her for more than a few minutes and the cry wasn't a typical frustrated or bored cry... it told me something was wrong. I called DH at work and he came home right away. We took her to emerg and the doctor checked her over, ordered a belly x-ray and found that she was terribly constipated, even though she was still pooping normally! She actually pooped that morning! Gave her an enema and OMG! Lets say it was ugly ;)
She has to have a suppository each day for the next 3 as well as increased fibre (pears, apples, prunes).
She ate an entire 8.5 oz bottle at bedtime last night and then another 6 this morning plus 4 ozs of fruit! She is sooooo much better!
Moral of the story - if you feel that something isn't right and your baby is not him/herself, do not stop until you get an answer.
billysmummy:
HI again
Kara - WOW - yuck!! Our nappies are bad enough without that!! But great news about the milk intake. (BTW, that's our daughters' name too!!)
Kenakit - 5oz is good. Its hard not to worry about it, isn't it? We have been giving DD lots of yoghurt and I have actually been mixing some in with her veg which she loves!
We have just finished a tin of formula and I have a different brand to tomorrow just in case its a taste thing. Not sure it will help but figure its worth a go. (BTW Kara, don't forget some formulas are more constipating too, if your little Alexandra is bottle fed)
Here is a great breakfast recipe I made this morning - tastes great, took about 5 minutes and she loved it - in fact I would eat if for breakky. Plus, has milk in it!!
15g oats
150ml milk
6 dried apricots chopped up
1 pear, chopped and diced
Throw oats, milk and apricots into a saucepan, bring to the boil and simmer for about 3 minutes. Add the pear and puree. Done!
I actually have frozen pureed pear in the freezer so just threw in a few cubes with the other stuff.
Supposed to be two portions.
I have read some for "smoothie" type things to which I will dig out and try.
Happy feeding!!
*Kara*:
--- Quote from: billysmummy on July 24, 2011, 03:59:59 am ---BTW Kara, don't forget some formulas are more constipating too, if your little Alexandra is bottle fed)
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She is formula fed... she was on Good Start but we changed her to Enfamil during all of the food strike business... maybe I should switch her back??
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