Hi, I am new to this website.
I have a beautiful baby girl who is 7 weeks tomorrow. I express my milk (for various reasons which I won't go in to), and give her top-up formula. I give her as much milk as she will take in 40 minutes at each feed time and she is putting on weight really well and taking the recommended amounts. I try to regulate her feed times so she is not snacking all day or over-feeding and being sick all over me! When I know she can't be hungry (eg less than an hour after she last fed) I give her water but I am worried about the amount she drinks, today for example she has already had 100ml. She won't take a dummy instead. On the occassions I have caved in and given her milk she has vomited from over-feeding. Is it dangerous to give a baby too much water? Is she perhaps drinking this much because of the hot weather? I have also recently changed her teat from a newborn Tommee Tippee to a slow flow teat Medela teat (I had two infections and was on 4 different types of tablets and they dried my milk up almost completely, the Medela pump is now the only one that lets me express a decent amount of milk).
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NK28a36fe8X12309084b05 · 11/08/2009 11:50
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