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nipple confusion -- urgent!
This is from the mom of one of Ollie's playmates:
Hello everyone, I'm seeking a bit of advice again... My son Logan, 13 weeks, is refusing to take the bottle.* For three straight days, I've tried giving him a bottle, (sadly, starving him) for up to 5 1/2 hours and have made very very little progress.** The crazy thing is that he actually used to have all his meals thru a bottle when I had latch-on problems and now my problem is reversed.* Does anyone have any helpful hints for me?** I have to go back to work next month and am very scared he'll*never do it or that I'll dehydrate him in the process of trying. Desperate, Jenn C. She has a lactation consultant she can talk to, but the more help the better. (I'm going to send her a Google Groups URL when all the helpful replies start coming in.) -- Sara, accompanied by the baby barnacle |
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nipple confusion -- urgent!
Sara wrote:
My son Logan, 13 weeks, is refusing to take the bottle. He's old enough to drink from a valveless sippy, or even an open cup, isn't he? I wouldn't worry about starvation unless DCPs are utterly unwilling to feed from anything but a bottle - and even then, he might take a bottle just fine from them. Phoebe |
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nipple confusion -- urgent!
Sara wrote:
This is from the mom of one of Ollie's playmates: Hello everyone, I'm seeking a bit of advice again... My son Logan, 13 weeks, is refusing to take the bottle. For three straight days, I've tried giving him a bottle, (sadly, starving him) for up to 5 1/2 hours and have made very very little progress. The crazy thing is that he actually used to have all his meals thru a bottle when I had latch-on problems and now my problem is reversed. Does anyone have any helpful hints for me? I have to go back to work next month and am very scared he'll never do it or that I'll dehydrate him in the process of trying. Desperate, Jenn C. She has a lactation consultant she can talk to, but the more help the better. (I'm going to send her a Google Groups URL when all the helpful replies start coming in.) Sara, you can probably google things like " baby won't take a bottle" "bottle rejection" etc and get lots of suggestions. Some quick ones: Mom shouldn't be trying to give the baby a bottle- why drink from the bottle if mom is there? In fact, she may just have to leave the house for awhile. She should try different nipples. DD only took the playtex nurser and just barely. There are tons of different shaped bottles/ nipples out there. She should try different temperatures - warmer than you would think. DD would only take the bottle if she was distracted and wasn't held - so our nanny would prop her up in her carseat, put on the baby mozart video and sneak the bottle in when DD was watching the video. Some babies like to be held in the nursing position, some do better if they are facing outward. I think someone here could only get their baby to take a bottle if she covered her eyes with a cloth diaper. The baby will probably do OK with the caregiver, although the caregiver may need alot of patience. If mom can nurse at lunch, baby would probably be OK the rest of the day. Even at her peak bottle consumption, I think my daughter only took 8-10 ounces. And I was gone all day. This did mean she reverse cycle nursed (she nursed all night long!) which was hard, but it was really OK. Things got easier when she started solids and was less dependent on the bottle. Best of luck to your friend. Mary |
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nipple confusion -- urgent!
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1. Different temperatures 2. Different nipple shapes on the bottle 3. Different people feeding (most breastfed babies will not take a bottle from Mom) 3. Different feeding positions - my DS wouldn't take a bottle nestled in the nursing position but would happily if he were sitting in a baby bucket. Can you practice at the DC place? Like, leave him there for an hour or two just to see how he does? Sometimes, they are just so practiced, that the babies respond to them better than family members (for bottle feeding, anyway). -Shannon "Sara" wrote in message ... This is from the mom of one of Ollie's playmates: Hello everyone, I'm seeking a bit of advice again... My son Logan, 13 weeks, is refusing to take the bottle. For three straight days, I've tried giving him a bottle, (sadly, starving him) for up to 5 1/2 hours and have made very very little progress. The crazy thing is that he actually used to have all his meals thru a bottle when I had latch-on problems and now my problem is reversed. Does anyone have any helpful hints for me? I have to go back to work next month and am very scared he'll never do it or that I'll dehydrate him in the process of trying. Desperate, Jenn C. She has a lactation consultant she can talk to, but the more help the better. (I'm going to send her a Google Groups URL when all the helpful replies start coming in.) -- Sara, accompanied by the baby barnacle |
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nipple confusion -- urgent!
Shannon wrote:
Try: 1. Different temperatures 2. Different nipple shapes on the bottle 3. Different people feeding (most breastfed babies will not take a bottle from Mom) 3. Different feeding positions - my DS wouldn't take a bottle nestled in the nursing position but would happily if he were sitting in a baby bucket. and... different nipple flows different places (like outside or something unexpected) fresh milk cups (without the valve) straws In the end my first never did take a bottle and he still got plenty of milk. He did reverse cycle and nursed all night long. -- Nikki Mama to Hunter (4) and Luke (2) |
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nipple confusion -- urgent!
"Nikki" wrote in message ... Shannon wrote: Try: 1. Different temperatures 2. Different nipple shapes on the bottle 3. Different people feeding (most breastfed babies will not take a bottle from Mom) 3. Different feeding positions - my DS wouldn't take a bottle nestled in the nursing position but would happily if he were sitting in a baby bucket. and... different nipple flows different places (like outside or something unexpected) fresh milk cups (without the valve) straws Medicine syringe |
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nipple confusion -- urgent!
"Mary W." wrote in message ...
to leave the house for awhile. She should try different nipples. DD only took the playtex nurser and just barely. It seems like an awful lot of the babies who don't like bottles ended up on the Playtex nurser system, so I'd definitely give that a try. (Of course, I may just think that because ds ended up on them, too!) I have to admit, I ended up letting the dcp do most of the work on this one - I figured she was the one who had the most motivation to make it work, and it was driving dh bonkers. Irene |
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nipple confusion -- urgent!
"Irene" wrote in message om... "Mary W." wrote in message ... to leave the house for awhile. She should try different nipples. DD only took the playtex nurser and just barely. It seems like an awful lot of the babies who don't like bottles ended up on the Playtex nurser system, so I'd definitely give that a try. (Of course, I may just think that because ds ended up on them, too!) I've tried lots of bottles and nipples, the only one my daughter can manage is the Playtex natural action nipple.It also helps in that you can press the bag and increase the liquid flow, that made it easier for my daughter to figure out what the bottle was for. |
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nipple confusion -- urgent!
Irene wrote: "Mary W." wrote in message ... to leave the house for awhile. She should try different nipples. DD only took the playtex nurser and just barely. It seems like an awful lot of the babies who don't like bottles ended up on the Playtex nurser system, so I'd definitely give that a try. (Of course, I may just think that because ds ended up on them, too!) I always recommend it to people who are having trouble and it often works! I have to admit, I ended up letting the dcp do most of the work on this one - I figured she was the one who had the most motivation to make it work, and it was driving dh bonkers. I did too. Our nanny was very persistent. Mary |
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nipple confusion -- urgent!
"Mary W." wrote in message ... Irene wrote: "Mary W." wrote in message ... to leave the house for awhile. She should try different nipples. DD only took the playtex nurser and just barely. It seems like an awful lot of the babies who don't like bottles ended up on the Playtex nurser system, so I'd definitely give that a try. (Of course, I may just think that because ds ended up on them, too!) I always recommend it to people who are having trouble and it often works! That's not the one with the flat, nubby nipple, is it? Or are you talking about the rubber nipple one with the wide mouth base? We have the one with the wide mouth base. I like the softness of the rubber, I'm not sure if DD does. DH has only been able to get DD to take maybe an ounce or two at a feed so far. |
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