Are there some side effects of letting an infant eat chocolates?
My 10 month old has developed a liking for chocolate. Her grandparents are responsible. I asked my parents to stop giving her chocolate but they still do it when I am absent. She can now recognize the...
View Article6.5 month old still not feeding enough
Here's her feeding schedule, all expressed milk in bottle:7:00AM: 3 Oz11:00AM: 3 Oz12:00 Noon: ~ 2Oz of solids (cereal or avacado or prune mixed with milk)3:00PM: 6 Oz (really hungry)7:00PM: 4 Oz +...
View ArticleHow important is "at night time" as part of a newborn's feeding schedule?
Now that we have conquered jaundice, our doctor has shifted our breast-fed two-week-old daughter's feeding schedule from "every two hours; wake her; no exceptions" to "every two hours; wake her; you...
View Article6.5 month old weight growth stalled
She has been gaining roughly only 1 oz per week for the last 5 weeks. And obviously dropping in the percentile chart. Her total intake of milk (expressed breast milk in bottle) is about 20 oz per 24...
View ArticleFrom bottle refusal to spoon refusal: what can I do to encourage feeding?
She's 10.5 months now. At around 3 months of age, she started bottle refusal, refusing milk from any bottle shapes whatsoever, unless she's half a sleep.So we started her primarily on solids at 5 month...
View Article1 month old, worried about overfeeding and sleep association
The baby is one month old. She is bottle fed with mostly breast milk.We feed on demand and keep a log. While the timing is somewhat predictable - every 1.5 to 2 hours during the day and 3-4 hours...
View ArticleWhat Can I do to get An Adult Child with Special Needs to Start eating and...
This individual is a twenty-five-year-old man with no verbal communication skills, totally deaf and blind. He was born with a genetic condition that made him this way--Norries.We hired somebody who was...
View Article11-month old daughter suddenly refusing to eat lunch/dinner
My 11-month old daughter has, in the past week, become extremely fussy and at some meal times is refusing to eat.For breakfast, we usually give her weetbix/rice cereal with milk (warmed in the...
View ArticleHow to start a new feeding/sleep schedule for a 6 month old?
My 6 month old grandson has no feeding / sleep schedule. He was born 3 weeks early, weighing 5 lbs. My daughter in law, Liz, is breastfeeding. The Dr. told her to feed as often as possible to get his...
View ArticleIs my infant not feeding enough and sleeping too much? [closed]
Our baby boy is 11 days old and the last 2 days has been feeding 5-6 hours apart and sleeping between. He feeds for about 10-15 min on each breast and sometimes takes up to an hour to get back to...
View ArticleHow do you warm the milk in a-drop in liner style bottle?
We're using Playtex drop-in bottles, and they say not to microwave. I don't know much about bottle warmers because our daughter would drink room-temperature milk until just recently (she's 1 y.o. now...
View Article8-month-old wants to eat in the night but won't take milk
Our 8-month-old girl eats lots - she's almost completely weaned because she has no interest in breast or formula milk during the day. She has breast milk once a night at the moment but my supply is...
View ArticleHow to get rid of the night feed (dream feed)? Baby won't sleep through the...
The baby is almost 12 months old. She has 2 naps a day (sometimes 3), can usually sleep through the night and her evening schedule is approximately:04:00 PM wake up from nap, and have fruit or baby...
View ArticleOur 4-month-old child is allergic to milk products. Can we start giving him...
My 4-month-old son is allergic to milk products and as per pediatrician's advice we're giving him formula milk Zerolac – and no breastmilk.Can someone advise whether we can start giving him the solid...
View Article2 month old doesn't cry in the middle of the night for food, only smacks her...
My 2 month old doesn't often cry when she is hungry, especially in the middle of the night. In the night, more often I awake, and hear her smacking her lips or trying to feed on her hand. Sometimes...
View ArticleOur 10 month old baby spits food in our faces to entertain us
We've had no problems feeding our 10 months old baby, and in general she eats (almost) all her meals without complaining. However, she figured out a few weeks back that spitting out the food is fun,...
View ArticleAre there automatic dripping milk feeders?
Does any device exist to automatically feed the baby milk, like how a IV (glucose line) continously drips glucose water? I have in fact seen a similar apparatus (not like how I want) in breast pump...
View ArticleIf you can't spoil a newborn, when "can" you spoil a baby?
So I heard you cannot spoil a newborn. While I don't take it 100% at face value I do believe attending her needs is more important than worrying about spoiling her. Now the question is, when can a baby...
View ArticleIs it okay to reuse disposable bottle nipples?
We were sent home from the hospital with some small botttles and (regular sized?) nipple tops that came individually wrapped in sterile packaging that says "use once".We got a few bottles at the shower...
View ArticleWhat to do about my 4-month-old's messy feeding schedule?
I have a 4-month-old baby. No matter how much I try, I just can't have a schedule for feeding her. She can be not willing to take a feed for 4 hours to asking for feed every hour. I tried to do eat...
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