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Frustrating Feeds
« on: April 20, 2006, 18:11:30 pm »
My daughter Sidney, now 3 months old, use to drink the bottle 4 to 6 oz every 3 to 4 hours and sleep 9.5 hours a night.  For the past 2 weeks she will be hungry, I feed her, she spits out the bottle after having 2 oz, I burp her and try to feed her more but she will keep spitting the bottle out with her tongue.  So I lay her down and she starts her hunger cry, and if there is a blanket or her teddy bear beside her she will grab it and suck on it like it is food.  Thinking she wants to suck I give her her soother and she spits it out.  I try feeding her again and then she will take another oz and spit the bottle out a again, this is all within 10 min of her spitting it out the first time.  So we repeat this for an hour until she takes at least 4oz. 

I don't understand why she seems to hate the bottle or hate the formula so much or if it is something else.  The 8pm feeding is the worst.  After the first 2 oz it is almost impossible to feed her anymore without her spitting the bottle out within a minute.  If I don't keep trying she ends up waking up at 2am or 4am because she is starving.  I don't get why she use to be such an easy feeder and now she is extremely fussy, or as I like to say she is frustrated it seems.  I say this because after her 2 oz and I try to keep feeding her her face gets all red and she tries to move her head away and if I keep at it she starts wailing, whereas if I wait 10min she will take 2oz or more.

Another thing to add.  After the first 2oz I have to lie her down on her back, usually, and try to feed her lying down.  This seems to help a little, but not a lot.

Anybody else have this problem or know how to solve it?

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Re: Frustrating Feeds
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2006, 18:47:09 pm »
Hi Spectra,

What size teats are you using?

We had the same problem where our DS would get very frustrated with his feeds - We changed to a faster flow nipple and he settled down again and it was great as he would finish the bottle in a record time.

When that flow got too slow for him we switched again - I think we were on a fast flow teat by the time he was about 4.5 months old.

Also at 4 months we switched him to a 4 hour Easy routine and he seemed happy with that.

HTH.

Let me know how you get on.

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Re: Frustrating Feeds
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2006, 18:52:25 pm »
Hi there, I do have her on the first stage nipples so far.  It never occured to me that that was the problem.  I was always wondering when you move to the faster stage nipple.  I have those nipples already here, I will try them at the next feed and see how it goes.  Thank you for the advice!
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« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2006, 18:53:56 pm »
Great - Let me know how you get on.

Good Luck.
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Re: Frustrating Feeds
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2006, 19:06:54 pm »
Sounds like my DS. We changed teats at 2 months and he went from taking 30-40 mins for a bottle to 15 mins (still on that now on Stage 2 teats). Good luck!
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Re: Frustrating Feeds
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2006, 19:07:45 pm »
Good luck Spectra

Let us know how you get on!  If you find the next size up is too fast try and put a small pin prick in the slower one, unitl your LO can handle the next size up.
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Re: Frustrating Feeds
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2006, 19:24:22 pm »
I found it took about 3 days for DS to get used to the new teat, just keep lots of bibs and muslins handy!
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« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2006, 19:28:24 pm »
Hiya spectra! Really sympathize with u!!!! We have had the same prob with ds for the past 2 months and I found that switching to bigger teat reall yhelped, also tried to feed LO in a quiet dark room to minimize distraction. Wouls liek to add tho that lo had loads of medical probs too that were giving him trouble feeding eg thrush....took us ages to realise so have ur lo's mouth checked out!
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« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2006, 22:19:58 pm »
Oh my, this sounds just like my ds! I have been thinking of going to the fast flow...he is a big boy and could probably handle a faster flow nipple right now. He will be 4 months old on May 3. I mean he is doing the exact same thing. He used to take 6 - 7 ounces every 4 hours and now he will hardly take 4 or 5 every 4 hours. Or he will just play around with it in his mouth and it takes a good 30-40 min to feed him.

I am definitely going to try a faster nipple and see how that works.

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Re: Frustrating Feeds
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2006, 05:45:34 am »
we JUST changed to fast flow nipples this past week because of the same problems you are describing.  If it helps...we found that poking an additional hole right next to the hole on our slow flow nipples made the nipples a "medium flow" (we have been using a playtex bottle with drop ins and the nipple options are slow or fast..no medium).  We made the extra hole with a paperclip that we sterilized ...and it is working like a charm!  these "home made medium flow" nipples work really well when he's more tired - like the dreamfeed...that way the formula is IN him rather than ON him!!   :)

our lo is SO much happier now...and as already mentioned- his 45 minute feedings are down to 15!!

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Re: Frustrating Feeds
« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2006, 06:43:58 am »
glad to hear you are all getting on better  ;D
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Re: Frustrating Feeds
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2006, 18:17:42 pm »
Well all I have to say is : THANK YOU!!!  Thank you!!!  Thank You!!!  We are now back to where we were before doing 5 feeds of about 6 to 7oz each time.  No more frustrating feeding battles.  What a world of difference the fast flow nipples make!  This really is the best forum ever, I mentioned it to all my friends who have babies.  You guys are the greatest!  Thanks a bunches!   :)
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Re: Frustrating Feeds
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2006, 18:18:45 pm »
Glad we could help!

I love this place too, I think its fantastic I can post bottle feeding questions here, most of the other forums I have used are very pro breastfeeding and unsupportive!
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« Reply #13 on: April 21, 2006, 18:20:18 pm »
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That's excellent news  :D
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« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2006, 19:08:33 pm »
So glad things are going better for you Spectra  ;D

Please keep us posted on how you are getting on.

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