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10 month old feeds for 2 mins. Is this enough?

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Dumpy · 02/07/2005 11:57

I am so worried that my 10 month old isn't getting enough milk. She has been bf since birth and usually feeds for about 5 minutes. But in the last week or so, she is only on for 2-3 minutes! She comes off and starts messing with my nipple!(pinching it!) If I try to put her back on, she either starts scraping my nipple with her top teeth or just bites me! She has 3 meals a day and is bf 3 times a day.

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fsmail · 02/07/2005 12:05

Is she teething because my dd only used to bite me and come off when she was teething and then go back to normal after a few days

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mears · 02/07/2005 12:15

If that is all she wants then that is fine. She does not need vast quantities fo milk to drink. She can have dairy in foods.

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Dumpy · 02/07/2005 14:05

She has 3 teeth at the top and 3 on the bottom and they're quite long! I was just worried because I know that bottle fed babies are supposed to have a pint a day and mine doesn't seem to be getting half of that. She does have a lot of dairy products and I suppose it will be easier to wean her off the booby in 2 months time.

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mears · 02/07/2005 14:24

Remember the pint of milk does not actually need to be in drink form. I personally think that cow's milk as a drink is over-rated.

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