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Feeding 10 week old
« on: August 04, 2013, 08:25:19 am »
Hello,

My 10 week old is becoming more & more tricky to feed. We've been feeding her EBM using NUK bottles and latex teats for a while which she did well with. Recently she takes 1-2 ounces and then after winding she either lols the teat around in her mouth or does dummy sucks (getting no milk out) or falls asleep. We try a nappy change to wake her up but she is always reluctant to take the bottle again. We switched from medium to fast flow which helped initially, but less so now - why tried switching back to medium flow but she took even less milk before she started to mess about with the teat or fall asleep.

In the past we've tried tommee tippee and dr brown - but with both she struggled to get much milk out before falling asleep.

Has anyone got any suggestions?
Many thanks

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Re: Feeding 10 week old
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2013, 13:06:12 pm »
What's her daily routine like - how often is she having the small feeds? What's her 24 hour intake like? What's her behaviour like after she takes the 1/2oz does she arch and squirm? Do you think she has reflux?

Sorry for the questions but we need a bit more info!

Laura


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« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2013, 17:14:39 pm »
She feeds every 2.5-3 hours taking 70-100ml (she was taking up to 150ml not so long ago) she then has a short activity and sleeps for 45min-1 hour. She usually feeds around 7.30am, 10.30, 1.30, 4.30, 6.30 - she quite often binge feeds around 6.30 (taking 150-300ml!) and usually goes down around 8.30pm. Until recently she fed twice at night but this has recently dropped to once. Her intake for 24hours was 700-850ml, but this has also dropped recently to around 600-700ml. Her one overnight feed has been very small recently too - often just 50ml. She doesn't seem in any discomfort after the feed - she usually winds quite well, but does wriggle into some strange positions to be fed and moves her head around a lot. We did think she suffered from reflux previously but this seems to have eased off.

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Re: Feeding 10 week old
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2013, 18:42:08 pm »
Hmm - I'm really not sure what else to suggest!

How long does a feed take? Have you spoken to your Dr to rule any illness etc out?

Laura