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Help........fretful feeding.
Morning ladies,
Evie is 19 weeks tomorrow and has never been that interested in milk. She was bf for 10 days but was incredibly lazy and lost well over her 10% birth weight. On midwife advice we went onto ff (I couldn't cope with expressing as well, I did that with DD1 for other reasons, long story!).
She started quite well but would still take minimal amounts which surprised the HV. At 12 weeks she was still only having 3oz each feed. She has followed the 50th centile since birth so no real issue there.
Anyway, now at best she can take 7oz especially during a growth spurt. But the past couple of days we are struggling to get her to take anything! She will take an oz then its like she is bored and starts thrashing around and trying to sit up. This morning she has taken 2.5oz and that was a fight. She sleeps through the night so had last been fed at 11pm. I would have thought she would be starving but she never is.
We have changed the teat size and it helped slightly at first. We have also tried feeding her in a quiet room but that did nothing.
She has just finished the bottle off now but she was half asleep (its nap time). It seems that she will only relax enough to take the feed when she is half asleep. Its the same with her dream feed, she takes that no problem. I really dont want her to associate falling asleep with having a bottle. She normally self settles really well.
She is totally happy in her self. Never appears to be hungry. Rarely cries to be fed. Sleeps through the night and is putting on weight. I'm just getting stressed out about it!
Anyone else had this problem? Do I just have a nosey baby who isn't very hungry? This is all a bit strange for me as DD1 eats for England and always has! At the same age Lily was over 2lbs heavier than Evie!
Just to add, haven't stated weaning so she cant be full up from that and she isnt on hungry baby milk!
Serena X
Evie is 19 weeks tomorrow and has never been that interested in milk. She was bf for 10 days but was incredibly lazy and lost well over her 10% birth weight. On midwife advice we went onto ff (I couldn't cope with expressing as well, I did that with DD1 for other reasons, long story!).
She started quite well but would still take minimal amounts which surprised the HV. At 12 weeks she was still only having 3oz each feed. She has followed the 50th centile since birth so no real issue there.
Anyway, now at best she can take 7oz especially during a growth spurt. But the past couple of days we are struggling to get her to take anything! She will take an oz then its like she is bored and starts thrashing around and trying to sit up. This morning she has taken 2.5oz and that was a fight. She sleeps through the night so had last been fed at 11pm. I would have thought she would be starving but she never is.
We have changed the teat size and it helped slightly at first. We have also tried feeding her in a quiet room but that did nothing.
She has just finished the bottle off now but she was half asleep (its nap time). It seems that she will only relax enough to take the feed when she is half asleep. Its the same with her dream feed, she takes that no problem. I really dont want her to associate falling asleep with having a bottle. She normally self settles really well.
She is totally happy in her self. Never appears to be hungry. Rarely cries to be fed. Sleeps through the night and is putting on weight. I'm just getting stressed out about it!
Anyone else had this problem? Do I just have a nosey baby who isn't very hungry? This is all a bit strange for me as DD1 eats for England and always has! At the same age Lily was over 2lbs heavier than Evie!
Just to add, haven't stated weaning so she cant be full up from that and she isnt on hungry baby milk!
Serena X
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Don't know what the answer is, but evie's not the only one
I've cracked open the spoons and bowls but may try it tomorrow lunch time. She is napping at the moment then we are going to toddlers with Lily so I dont think its the right time to start today.
How did Ryan do?
Exciting!
Serena X
My little lady is exactly the same. She's just not interested but gains weight regardless! It's now 4.30pm here nearly and so far today she's had about 8 oz in total. Nightmare!
Then tomorrow she might finish every bottle.. who knows. It's like a lottery. I used to get stressed over it but now I just go with the flow and let her dictate to me how much she has. I also try to feed her a little more when she's dropping off as sometimes I can "trick" her this way.
Good to see it's not just us!
xx
Izzy is exactly the same. If she takes 5oz, its a massive celebration. She usually has just 3-4oz per feed and never cries for a feed. I try not to worry it and just keep an eye on her weight. She's following the 50th centile so I'm not too worried. my HV said not to be concerned as long as she is happy, gaining weight and has wet and dirty nappies. Milk is just boring compared to everything going on in their world at the moment xx
Will give carrot a go tomorrow (in the kitchen mind you, that stuff will stain my cream carpet!) but if she isn't interested then gonna stop.
She has been quite sicky today so I still think she has a bit of reflux. Plus I think she has a cold brewing.
Oh well, i'm in no rush and by the look of things, neither is she!
Serena X
Ryan was a lot more sicky than normal this afternoon- not sure if the soggy cardboard (baby rice), what tiny bit he might've had of it disagreed with him! He's been food obsessed today though...let him have good rummage around in oh's dinner lol! Wasn't impressed with the melted cheese from his omelette (just licked it) but had a good chomp on his cucumber- think it mustn't felt nice on his gums. We'll see how the porridge goes tomorrow morning if he gets up early enough that is!
She had her 4 month check up yesterday and they advised me to add a little powdered cereals (i'm not sure what it's called in English, here it's "cereales") which is basically corn etc with the same consistency as the formula and you add it to the bottle. I did it last night at her 7pm feed and she slept right through until 6am for the first time ever! So we're starting to add in some other things but they've told me nothing else until she's 5 months old. Good luck ladies!
Gonna stick with 1 meal a day with her. She is suddenly very interested in food and cried her heart out when my BIL was holding her today whilst eating ice cream. She looked absolutly desperate!
She is on size 2 teats, she only started on them a few weeks ago. She was drowning in milk when I tried her on them before!