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doesnt actually suck on the bottle
« on: April 19, 2012, 08:26:17 am »
DS2 doesnt suck on the teat of his bottle. he lets it drip into his mouth and he takes about 20mins to finish a bottle. months ago he used to suck on it and it would take about 6-8mins to finish a bottle, now it just drags on. I tried changing the teat to the Y shape where nothing comes out unless you suck on it and guess what... his mouth just "pretend" sucked on it for 15 mins before I realised the bottle was still full of liquid and he had drunk 10mls, yea just 10mls

Im worried how this is going to affect his drinking out of a sippy cup etc, but its actually just rather annoying too because it takes a long time to finish a bottle, his bottle goes cold and he refuses to finish it until i warm it up again. if he just drank it normally then it wouldnt go cold, he wouldve finsihed it before it got cold.

whats going on here with this?
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Re: doesnt actually suck on the bottle
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2012, 08:37:04 am »
How about giving it to him in a free flow sippy?





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Re: doesnt actually suck on the bottle
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2012, 09:20:07 am »
I give him his water in one of those, you dont need to suck on those do you? it just comes out?
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Re: doesnt actually suck on the bottle
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2012, 12:31:32 pm »
That's right!





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Re: doesnt actually suck on the bottle
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2012, 20:20:54 pm »
tried that this morning and he refused to take it
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Re: doesnt actually suck on the bottle
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2012, 20:54:18 pm »
Ok well I think you can get convertible bottles which can have a valve or free flow teats in - I think they are for teaching babies to transition from bottle to beaker. You could try that. Or yiu could get a fast flow teat or even make some more holes in the current teat.





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Re: doesnt actually suck on the bottle
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2012, 21:34:59 pm »
the one he is on is the fastest flowing one and he has to stop to take breaks but if i use the next one down in size then it takes even longer to finish a bottle, up to half an hour!

shouldnt he be sucking? is it laziness?
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Re: doesnt actually suck on the bottle
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2012, 21:37:00 pm »
I know that ear infection/fluid and/or teething can make it uncomfortable to suck? You can make extra holes in a teat with a pin for an even faster flow.





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Re: doesnt actually suck on the bottle
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2012, 21:44:31 pm »
might try that. hes been doing it for months so i dont think its pain related
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