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Advice about paced feeding please!

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KayleyG · 11/07/2020 13:02

My partner is giving my little one an expressed bottle at night, but we've found he's guzzling it really quickly and wanting more which totally defies the point of my expressing to get a bit more sleep! I've read about paced feeding as a way to mimic breast feeding and slow him down, but can't help worrying that he'll take on a lot of wind with the bottle in that horizontal position.
Does anyone have any experience of this and do you find your baby suffers more with wind?
Thanks in advance!

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bookish83 · 11/07/2020 13:03

There are some good you tube videos on it. Also use a size 0 or 1 teet to mimic the flow from BF Smile and give breaks to wind after an oz or two x

sar302 · 11/07/2020 14:05

We did same as above (I wanted to breast feed, but couldn't), we also took some time and "switched sides" half way through the bottle, mimicking changing breasts.

If you have any concerns about wind, we found Dr Browns bottles to be fantastic.

greythrow · 11/07/2020 14:35

It shouldn't cause any more wind and you'll burp the baby anyway
I'll see if I can attach a helpful guide

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user1471462428 · 11/07/2020 14:54

I did paced feeding with the baby upright then burped him and putting in his cot. The YouTube videos are fab.

KayleyG · 12/07/2020 04:28

Thanks everyone.
Can I ask how much you all fed? I keep reading that baby should need/want no more than 2/3oz, but even with the paced feeding that we tried tonight he finished a 4oz bottle and was still rooting so I topped him up with boob!

He's 7 weeks old, weighs around 11lbs...

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KayleyG · 12/07/2020 04:34

Oh and what bottles? We're using Tommy Tippee Closer to Nature which he takes well, but found the last couple of oz hard to give him without tilting the bottle right up as the teat was just air and a dribble of milk when horizontal...?

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