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i could so with advise on baby sick please!

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sep1712 · 12/06/2007 21:06

Hi i was exclusivly breast feeding then the angel started losing lots of weight so HV so to add some bottles in has 2x 8oz of formula now but is really sick after it!!!
HV said to drop the bottles go back to breast feeding and add formula to her solids!!
Shes only 5mths but started early weaning on HV advise, has 3 meals a day now under HV orders!
Her advise seems so to change all the time!! don't know what to do!! Also still waking lots at night help!!! thanks

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lulumama · 12/06/2007 21:08

ok

well, my advice as a non medical person is to drop the food, and get her back into milk feeds on demand

8 oz is a lot per feed...

i would try to get her back into as much breast feeding as you can.....

why did she advise early weaning? the best thing to put weight on a baby is feeding milk on demand...not food...

munz · 12/06/2007 21:09

agree drop the food for a minute and go back to the BM - if you want to keep on with the formula then try a differnt brand but try less more often if that makes sence? might be DD is having too much and it's a bit heavy on her tummy?

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sep1712 · 12/06/2007 21:18

that sounds like good sense to me but she was so happy when she started on the formula she stop crying all the time, do you think breast milk cannot fill a baby up alone?

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munz · 12/06/2007 21:21

tbh I think it depends on this child, the age, there arte lots of things. do you feel that your LO is ready fro weaning yet? if you do then go ahead and carry on. possibly 3 meals is too much? unfortunatly weaning/around this age things do go a bit squiff as it were and it's pretty much a trail and error in getting the balances right. I know that's prob not what you want to here thou. possibly try a differnt brand of formula - or failing that is there any other hv's in your pratice you could talk to?

munz · 12/06/2007 21:22

sorry should be the child not this child.

lulumama · 12/06/2007 21:22

breast milk can fill a baby, and what your HV might not have taken into account is there is often a growth spurt around 16 weeks....and topping up with formula would make it harder to keep up with her demand for breast milk

even if she is happier with formula, food is not neccesary at this stage

akaJamiesMum · 12/06/2007 21:24

Feck! I am an ex-HV and I have just shrieked at the PC. Your HV is wrong - the current advice is to wean at six months and has been for a long time now.
Do you have to see this HV or would you prefer not to? Some of them (like yours) are dreadful for giving out of date weaning advice.

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sep1712 · 12/06/2007 21:32

She advised the weaning cause she was losing lots of weight. You put all your faith in these people

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sep1712 · 12/06/2007 21:35

i was feeding her all the time and i am just too busy to do that now so not sure if she would get enough??

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munz · 12/06/2007 21:36

I personally feel that if you think your baby is ready for weaning early then you should be able to my H/V seemed to think that J was ready for weaning at 17 weeks as apparenlty 'he was a big baby' - wasn't particually just liked the boob. anyhow I did try once (stupidly at the time) was only once but he wasn't ready for it and we had 3 days of him being unsettled after (in my view) as a result of this, so I stopped and waited until I thought he was ready (which was approx 22-23 weeks ish I think) and he got on fine and was deffo ready then.

it could well be baby's not ready for the solids after all they're calaries should be coming form the milk at this age and agree growth spurts happen to around this stage

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sep1712 · 12/06/2007 21:36

god its hard to know what to do when you get so much different advise isn't it. I'm sure i'll laugh about it when shes 16 and tucking into steak and chips!

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munz · 12/06/2007 21:37

how would you feel about mixed feeding? ie boob morning night/lunch and formula for everything else?

lulumama · 12/06/2007 21:38

why not breast feed as much as you can, and if it is not possible, then give her formula...and hang back on the food for another month or so

milk and more milk is all she needs

munz · 12/06/2007 21:38

lol. it is v hard to know what's right, and don't forget about teh guilty chip us mums all have as I say really it's about the balancing that goes on as to how much is right etc.

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sep1712 · 12/06/2007 21:39

I think the growth spurt bit as well and it would be so much easyer if i could just pop her on and no messing with anything else!

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lemonaid · 12/06/2007 21:41

When you say she was losing lots of weight, what weights was she at what ages/dates?

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sep1712 · 12/06/2007 21:42

she was having 8oz morning and night then breast feeding on demand the rest of the time with a bit of breaky for the last three weeks. Still hasn't put enough weight on!

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sep1712 · 12/06/2007 21:44

shes on the line below the strong line in the red book. Very skinny, no fat!!! will love that figure when shes older!!

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munz · 12/06/2007 21:44

is she still loosing weight?

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sep1712 · 12/06/2007 21:45

started losing weight at around 12 weeks

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lulumama · 12/06/2007 21:45

so is she on the 25th centile

some children are smaller than others

DD started on the 50th and dropped gradually, and now she is on the 25th and has been for almost a year..she is fine, healthy and meeting all her milestones.just not meant to be a big girl

when you have averages, you need some to be smaller and some to be bigger!

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sep1712 · 12/06/2007 21:45

not losing but not gaining as much as the HV would like

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sep1712 · 12/06/2007 21:47

do you think the non content baby was conected with under feeding and weight lose???

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lulumama · 12/06/2007 21:47

not all babies need to be on the 50th centile

and weight gain does slow down !

munz · 12/06/2007 21:48

agree with lulu, there. and also, my h/v always said to me he's following the same line so he's fine - (fair enough your DD has lost some weight) but if she's following the same line now then I shouldn't worry too much.

is she happy/healthy/content and alert within herself normally?