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Feeding more with cold?
Chookie wrote: In article .com, wrote: Do babies feed more at night if they have a cold. You betcha! Don't you find yourself heading for hot drinks etc when you have a cold? And they don't feel well, so they need comforting, so boob is the obvious thing! It's something I hadn't really considered when thinking about the pros of bf'ing. The whole AP theory isn't for me and as it turns out, for most of the time, a dummy works well for ds for comforting sucking to help naps. But to be able to soothe him in the middle of the night so easily rather than pat/shh.. is marvellous. I realise he actually needs food in this instance but there was one night where he just woke up screaming and only a bf would calm him, so hurrah for bf'ing. Jeni |
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hooferoo writes:
It's something I hadn't really considered when thinking about the pros of bf'ing. The whole AP theory isn't for me and as it turns out, for most of the time, a dummy works well for ds for comforting sucking to help naps. But to be able to soothe him in the middle of the night so easily rather than pat/shh.. is marvellous. I realise he actually needs food in this instance but there was one night where he just woke up screaming and only a bf would calm him, so hurrah for bf'ing. Yes! DS is almost two, and doesn't breastfeed so much any more or usually seem to find it so important, but a few days ago he had a bug of some kind and was feverish and miserable for a day. He went off solid food completely and didn't have the energy to play, but he was content to cuddle and endlessly breastfeed. Not for the first time, I thought hurrah for child-led weaning, too - both our lives would have been harder at that time had he not still been breastfeeding. Sidheag DS Colin Oct 27 2003 |
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Sidheag McCormack wrote: hooferoo writes: It's something I hadn't really considered when thinking about the pros of bf'ing. The whole AP theory isn't for me and as it turns out, for most of the time, a dummy works well for ds for comforting sucking to help naps. But to be able to soothe him in the middle of the night so easily rather than pat/shh.. is marvellous. I realise he actually needs food in this instance but there was one night where he just woke up screaming and only a bf would calm him, so hurrah for bf'ing. Yes! DS is almost two, and doesn't breastfeed so much any more or usually seem to find it so important, but a few days ago he had a bug of some kind and was feverish and miserable for a day. He went off solid food completely and didn't have the energy to play, but he was content to cuddle and endlessly breastfeed. Not for the first time, I thought hurrah for child-led weaning, too - both our lives would have been harder at that time had he not still been breastfeeding. I'm interested to see where I am when ds is a year old. I go back to work then and had planned to have him weaned completely. However, I am starting to come around to the idea of child-led weaning - particularly as he won't be on so many feeds as he is now so it won't be too much of an issue being at work. Keeping meaning to sort my sig with this in. The hat ones are around 13 weeks. http://www.fuzzyblobs.com/pics/index...bum=theboy%2F& Jeni |
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Feeding more with cold?
hooferoo writes:
I'm interested to see where I am when ds is a year old. I go back to work then and had planned to have him weaned completely. However, I am starting to come around to the idea of child-led weaning - particularly as he won't be on so many feeds as he is now so it won't be too much of an issue being at work. FWIW, here's how it worked for us. I went back to work when DS was 10.5 months old. I planned to send expressed breast milk with him until he was a year, then switch him to having cow's milk at nursery. In the event, he was on EBM for a couple of months longer, because he turned out to be sensitive to dairy (fortunately, swiftly outgrown). I couldn't pump for toffee, though, and quickly settled for sending only one bottle (later cup) of about 4oz with him. That was fine: he ate solids well, drank water, and breastfed a lot at home. By the time he was 14 months he was able to drink cow's milk at nursery and I was able to give up pumping. Maybe if your DS is starting nursery at a year, and doesn't have dairy sensitivities, you could avoid the EBM/formula question altogether and have him drink water and cow's milk and eat solids at nursery from the beginning? (I did get mastitis at one stage when I did a too-sudden decrease in the amount of pumping I was doing - be careful about that, if you end up in the same situation!) As you say, though, you have to see how it goes... Sidheag DS Colin Oct 27 2003 |
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