DD has recently been very very ill.
As a result the little mite hasnt gained weight very well and is still quite tiny.
She is just under 8lbs at 7.5 weeks. Since bringing her home from the hospital, we have been having a nightmare with feeding.
It goes like this:
DD is hungry - screams for a bottle. I feed her.
One hour later she is screaming for another feed (or at least that's what I think she is screaming for) but I can't see how she can be hungry as I have already given her a huge bottle.
So I give in and feed her again, she falls asleep but she ends up constipated and on laxatives.
If I don't feed her she screams for an hour or so, finally drifts off into an exhausted sleep, then wakes up. The cycle starts again.
In desparation, I called the paediatrician this morning - he suggested putting baby rice into her bottles to thicken it (he assures me that this will not aggravate the constipation and may satisfy her apparent hunger). I was totally shocked, can this advice be right?
Can anybody give me a professional view?
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Urgent advice needed: Paediatrician has suggested something and I am so NOT SURE?
dejags · 21/06/2007 09:21
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