I dont know which board to put this on but here goes...
over New Years I ran out of thickner for DS2 to put in his bottle, shops were shut for three days so I panicked. i bought rice cereal and put it in his bottle.
the first night i put three tablespoons in as I had researched on the net and thats what was recommended (1 tbls for each 2oz) that night was the first night since he was a newborn that we had nightwakings, 3 of them!!! so I cut it back to only 1tbsp. he seemed to sleep alot better during the day, nights he was a bit uncomfortable still but he hardly chucked up. it seemed to have helped but I wasnt comfortable with doing it long term. He wouldnt eat as much in his bottle (about 80-110mls which would take forever for him to eat, instead of the usual 180mls) and he was hungry earlier, i thought he was starting to snack. He seemed to be in alot of pain yesterday and I dont know if that was from teething or the rice cereal.
so this was done for three days. then i stopped and put thickener in instead. well we are back to him eating more and massive amounts of vomitting again, short short naps (1.5 hours in an 14 hour period totalled whereas we were getting 1 hour 40min naps each with the other)
what should I do?? go back to the rice cereal?? im worried it mightve been upsetting his tummy
but this isnt great either
