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How to get him to drink bedtime bottle
« on: December 17, 2011, 20:26:21 pm »
DS2 is just over 1 year and is on Neocate for MPI - totally weaned off meds now and I'm trying to find a good time between teething and illness to trial more dairy.  He's never drunk much milk in one sitting anyway due to his reflux but he can usually do about 5-6oz on a good day.  He drinks his morning bottle fine and some days has one in the afternoon - never drinks more than 4oz at this one but his bedtime one has become a joke.  A few weeks ago he would drink a good 3-4oz of it and then I would dreamfeed him another 2-3 oz (not ideal I know but its the only way I can get the milk into him!) but  now I'm lucky if he will take 1oz at bedtime which then leads to a NW about 1.5-2hrs later when he's finally decided that he does want to drink milk and then he will polish off 4-5 oz.  I've tried making sure he gets his dinner nice and early so he's not too full from that.  Not really sure where to go from here - should I drop that afternoon bottle altogether and see if that helps? Anyone been in a similar situation? Ideally I would also like to drop the dreamfeed and have him take a decent feed at bedtime then he will easily sleep through but he's not going to do that one 1oz of bedtime bottle.
I should probably say that his reflux is totally under control - he's completely weaned off his meds now.

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Re: How to get him to drink bedtime bottle
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2011, 22:17:20 pm »
I would cut him down to 2 bottles Rachel... he only needs 12-16 ozs of milk at a year :)



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Re: How to get him to drink bedtime bottle
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2011, 08:39:45 am »
Thanks kara - didn't know what the recommended amounts were at 1 year. Will cut that afternoon bottle and see if it helps.

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Re: How to get him to drink bedtime bottle
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2011, 21:36:44 pm »
Let us know what happens after a few days to trial the change ;)



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Re: How to get him to drink bedtime bottle
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2011, 06:41:18 am »
Still the same last night after no afternOon bottle - will give it a few more days!

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Re: How to get him to drink bedtime bottle
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2011, 04:38:52 am »
Give it a few more days... have you moved his solids up earlier to account for the missed bottle?



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Re: How to get him to drink bedtime bottle
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2011, 06:41:03 am »
Yeah - both my boys are eating like horses at the moment, it's like a swarm of locusts pass through my kitchen several times a day! We had a but more success last night. I gave it to him at the start of his bedtime wind down while we were just chilling out and he drank much more so will try that approach again tonight.

 


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Re: How to get him to drink bedtime bottle
« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2011, 21:17:43 pm »
it's like a swarm of locusts pass through my kitchen several times a day

We just survived that a few weeks ago!  Now I have a chronic snacker ;)

Fingers crossed that you have figured out what will work!



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Re: How to get him to drink bedtime bottle
« Reply #8 on: December 20, 2011, 22:00:01 pm »
Did the same again tonight - we might have cracked it!

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Re: How to get him to drink bedtime bottle
« Reply #9 on: December 20, 2011, 22:06:48 pm »
WOOT WOOT!