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Infant feeding

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tommee tippee teats and weaning

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daisystone · 04/03/2011 08:34

Does anyone know what teats to use when feeding baby rice/cereal in a bottle? We use Tommee Tippee but they don't seem to use sizes but medium or fast flow and variflow.

Bit confused and could do with some help.

thanks!

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Hermya321 · 04/03/2011 08:40

Please don't put baby rice in your babies bottle, it is a serious choking hazard and is very ill advised. Bottles aren't meant to have baby rice in them, they're meant for milk.

Why do you feel the need to do this BTW?

JiltedJohnsJulie · 04/03/2011 08:40

daisy think you are finding it hard to get information on this as the advice is not to put anything but milk in the bottle.

How old is your LO?

JiltedJohnsJulie · 04/03/2011 08:56

Daisy do you want to put cereal/babyrice in the bottle to start to wean your baby or to help them sleep or for reflux?

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daisystone · 04/03/2011 09:16

It is to start weaning and perhaps also to help sleep for longer periods during the night.

My mother and mother in law both have both told me about weaning with rice in bottles. I realise some information will be out of date but I didn't realise it would be a choking hazard.

Does no one put food in bottles anymore?

My baby is 13 weeks but was not intending to start this for another few weeks. I think I shall start weaning around four and a half months. Just with a little cereal or rice.

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japhrimel · 04/03/2011 10:00

Out-of-date dangerous advice. No solid food should go in a bottle. And most babies shouldn't be weaned until 6 months. Definitely do not start weaning before 4 months - that is actually dangerous!

Please get some up-to-date safe advice. Most childrens Centres do sessions on weaning afaik.

japhrimel · 04/03/2011 10:01

Oh and solids will not necessarily mean more sleep.

heksie · 04/03/2011 10:13

Hi daisystone,

I understand what everyone is saying about the rice in the bottles. You could try a formula with more calories? When my ds was not sleeping and I was so tired and he was waking all the time to feed because he was hungry, I went against the advice on 'up to date' websites/books and fed him very runny baby rice mixed with milk at night, out of sheer desperation to give him enough to eat.

And he slept, and he survived and he grew like a little mushroom. Don't shoot me! Just telling the truth!

Seona1973 · 04/03/2011 10:55

there are seeral reasons against putting cereal in the bottle:

?It is a choking hazard

?The cereal takes away from the amount of milk in the bottle (adds carbohydrates and dilutes the nutrient density), and baby may not get adequate milk volume for proper growth and development.

?Baby is being given a higher concentration of calories without being able to regulate her own intake. This can lead to weight problems in the future.

Studies have also shown that solids do not make a difference to sleep. Neither of mine instantly slept longer after soilds were introduced - it can actually make sleep worse due to digestive issues.

Seona1973 · 04/03/2011 10:56

should say 'several' btw!

japhrimel · 04/03/2011 13:38

Hungry baby formula is just harder to digest afaik - it's casein based instead of whey based.

TittyBojangles · 04/03/2011 13:46

How does your LO sleep at the moment?

JiltedJohnsJulie · 04/03/2011 17:11

Seona, agree with you especially on the introducing food and expecting more sleep. Both of mine actually slept worse during weaning and for a quite a bit after.

JiltedJohnsJulie · 04/03/2011 17:28

daisy please have a look at this on Kellymom. Its aimed at bfing Mums but explains why introducing solids doesn't equate to extra sleep.

This link talks about babies sleeping through the night and this link talks about why its good to wait until 6 months and one www.kellymom.com/nutrition/solids/solids-when.html is useful as it gives you the signs to spot when your LO is ready for solids.

Please don't forget that since your Mums and MIL had their children there has been a lot of research done. They may have good intentions but like others have said their advice on this one is potentially lethal.

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daisystone · 05/03/2011 16:38

thanks people. Although i believe new research has shown that weaning before 6 months is now thought to be beneficial? This was all on the news recently...

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jaggythistle · 05/03/2011 19:42

No the 'research' which was an opinion peice reviewing other studies said that they thought it was worht investigating whether earlier weaning might be useful in some specific situations.

Very much misreported in the media.

japhrimel · 06/03/2011 08:31

Yup, no new research. And the guidelines will not be changing - it was always the case that the best research supported the view that 6 months is the average time that is best for weaning. But average means that there would always be some babies who might need weaning earlier (but always after 4 months!) and also some babies who won't really be ready at 6 months.

One big issue with when the guidelines were "wean after 4 months" was that some people thought that was a time that could be brought forward - and weaning before 4 months can actually be really detrimental.

FWIW the recent paper the news fuss was about was whether breastfed babies needed more iron than they got from bm at 6 months (opinion discussion not proven facts). This isn't relevant at all to formula fed babies.

JiltedJohnsJulie · 06/03/2011 08:47

Agree with the others, there is no new research and the guidelines still remain at 6 months for many reasons.

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daisystone · 06/03/2011 16:12

Oh! Well there you go then. Just shows how you can get things so wrong even when you have listened on the news and think you know what they mean.

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jaggythistle · 06/03/2011 16:41

Science/health stuff is often really badly reported on the news!

JiltedJohnsJulie · 07/03/2011 06:59

This one was particularly badly reported
and most of the press coverage gave the impression that it was new research, when in fact it was just a review.

Thought you might be interested in this article which appeared in the BMJ following the publicity of the review.

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daisystone · 07/03/2011 16:29

Thank you for the link. It is very interesting reading.

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