Bottle battles
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Topic: Bottle battles
Posted By: oscarboo
Subject: Bottle battles
Date Posted: 26 March 2009 at 8:49am
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Has anyone else had this problem? I have a 9 week old girl and up until a week ago she took her bottles well, stopping for one burp and then drinking the rest. She was drinking around 170-195mls at most bottles. She then started stopping at about 100mls and refusing to drink any more of the bottle but I was able to coax her into drinking more. Last Friday she decided she was going to drink all her bottles in two goes with about a 1 hour gap. It made it a long day. She started to come right over the weekend but has now gone back to it again. I have been told to just go with her flow but it doesn't seem normal for her to have to drink them in this way. I am worried that if I keep feeding her in this way she will get use to snacking. She usually feeds around 4 hourly and I haven't changed anything about how I feed her, it is just her that has changed. I did move her up to the bigger size teats yesterday incase she was getting frustrated with the smaller teats.
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Posted By: Helen1
Date Posted: 26 March 2009 at 11:22am
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I was going to suggest a change of teats. See how that goes for a couple of days. My DD was a little lazy on the bottle so we needed to check the teats every now and again to make sure they were suitable. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: oscarboo
Date Posted: 26 March 2009 at 11:45am
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Thanks, last bottle went a little better. She opens her mouth to suck, takes a couple and then tries to stop again. Did lots of gentle coaxing and she drunk almost all the bottle. Fingers crossed for next feed!! ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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