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rusk in bottle - should I try it?

42 replies

mumofben · 09/02/2007 20:54

some people I work with suggested dissolving a rusk in DS last bottle of milk to ensure he doesn't wake with hunger during night. Firstly, the some of the people I work with are the sort who ignore all professional advice & do things their own way and swear by the rusk thing with all their multitude of offspring.

They were very puzzled why I waitied till DS was almost 6 months old before weaning him, as they all weaned at around 10 weeks!!!!

Secondly, I didn't want DS to have anything with sugar in for the first year (he's just over 6 months now) and all rusks, even low sugar contain sugar. However, he also wakes during the night although usually he goes straight back off with a dummy. I'm really tired from being woken during the night that I'm considering it.
Any thoughts??

OP posts:
hercules1 · 09/02/2007 20:55

No.

lulumama · 09/02/2007 20:56

no no no

clayre · 09/02/2007 20:56

apparently rusks in a bottle can affect their kidney's, thats what i was told by HV so i never tried it.

ELF1981 · 09/02/2007 20:56

I think there is a choking hazzard for doing this

lulumama · 09/02/2007 20:56

if he wakes offer dummy, or milk, never solids in a bottle....ever

weaning at 10 weeks ! i would not take advice from these people .

brandy7 · 09/02/2007 20:56

Yes or if not try baby rice in it and make the hole of the teat a little bit bigger

clayre · 09/02/2007 20:57

can you not give him milk for hungrier babies?

AitchTwoOh · 09/02/2007 20:57

can you leave truckloads of dummies lying around his cot? no to the rusk, though...

brandy7 · 09/02/2007 20:57

have to disagree ive done it with both mine, my mother did it with us 3 and my sister did it with her 3, were all still alive

oops · 09/02/2007 20:59

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lulumama · 09/02/2007 20:59

why you should not add rusks or cereal to a baby's bottle

lulumama · 09/02/2007 21:00

brandy7 - it is a choking hazard...and if you have to make the whole in the teat bigger, it suggests a bottle was not made to accomodate anything other than milk

oops · 09/02/2007 21:00

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Hillary · 09/02/2007 21:01

I put a rusk in my babies last bottle, she was already on hungrier babies milk & continued to wake at night that was with her being weaned too! (she's a greedy baby/toddler) It made her sleep through, I know theres alot of bad press about doing it but I did and it worked well for us.

My second baby didn't need it and sleeps right through (must add though i did use the reduced sugar ones and it was from 6 months)

brandy7 · 09/02/2007 21:02

depends how desperate you are for sleep i spose, i tend to listen to my mother with regards to parenting techniques, so does my sister. if it was ok 40years ago i dont see why it should suddenly change now, but thats just my opinion

liquidclocks · 09/02/2007 21:03

I have to use AR (added rice) milk anyway due to reflux and have since 2 weeks - on medical advice. If he's still waking in the night at 6 months and settling with a dummy perhaps you could try a few things:

  1. Get him something to 'love' - DS's have both loved their muslins and we tied them onto their grobags - this worked for both of them in 'curing' night waking from around 4 months.

  2. if that doesn't work I sure a tiny bit of baby rice dissolved in the milk will be OK at 6 months (assume you'll be starting to wean anyway?) - you can't even see the change in viscosity.

Absolutely no to rusks though - sugar and 'bits' are no good in a bottle.

WanderingTrolley · 09/02/2007 21:03

mumofben, where you work, is it the 1970's?

Is dadofben him off Life On Mars?

Seriously, though, give sonofmumofben cereal for supper or a later tea, if you think hunger is waking him.

lulumama · 09/02/2007 21:05

fair enough brandy7 - but a lot of things have changed as regards pregnancy, infant feeding and weaning in 40 years...so i guess if you want up to date info, it means that things that were done 40 years ago can now be considered in correct, but not that they were at the time, IFYSWIM

liquidclocks · 09/02/2007 21:05

If at all concerned you could always try actually feeding him some baby rice or porridge before bed - DS1 always had 'dinner' around 6.30pm just before I put him down. It was the first meal I introduced.

AitchTwoOh · 09/02/2007 21:05

someone on here proposed tying knots in a muslin and tying dummies to that so that the baby can find it easier... that sounded to me like a good idea, i recall. pmsl at wanderingtrolley.

hercules1 · 09/02/2007 21:06

Do you use car seats, Brandy?

brandy7 · 09/02/2007 21:07

yea i know things have changed lulumama strange really because our bodies are still the same

brandy7 · 09/02/2007 21:07

havent got a car

lulumama · 09/02/2007 21:08

but maybe what we know about our bodies and the effect that things can have on them are different, brandy?

hercules1 · 09/02/2007 21:08

My mum wasnt allowed to breastfeed in hospital. She did lots of things with good intentions that I would not consider doing now. REsearch and knowledge moves forward. Yes, our bodies are still the same but thankfully our knowledge about it has moved forward.