rusk in bottle - should I try it?

[mumofben]

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??

actually, our bodies aren't the same. they're bigger and healthier by and large.

DS stopped his night feeds at 7 months but had a small supper from then on.

NEVER give cereal or any solid from a bottle.

loads on why not to if you google

at lockets. Good point.

The thing is that he is waking up because his dummy has fallen out, not because he is hungry so what purpose would putting a rusk in his bottle serve? It wouldn't keep his dummy in would it?

So your choice is, keep on as you are until he can sort himself out or wean him off the dummy and onto a method where he doesn't need your help to get back to sleep or find a method such as a clip or tying it to a muslim or leaving half a dozen in his cot or him being able to find his own dummy (although maybe a bit young for this one yet).

Actually lockets I think they used to do the rusk in the bottle trick (advocated by my MIL btw) when the baby was so tiny that they couldn't actually eat a rusk - like 3 or 4 weeks or something. No wonder DH is such a strange specimen.

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or the opposite might also work. i found dd's sleep went haywire because i was feeding her a not-very-calorific dinner quite close to bedtime (say, 6pm with a bedtime of 7.30pm) and so she was full up with solids when it was milk she needed. bringing her tea forward to no later than 5pm sorted it out. i think it was mrsbadger who told me to do that and i still slightly love her for it...

blimey! what a can of worms!

BTW, he only has a dummy for a couple of mins before going to sleep then usually spits it out and sleeps mostly through but has started waking around 3 - 4 am.

The reason I thought it may be hunger is because he has his tea at 3.30 (nursery routine). By the time I collect him at 6 and get him home, he is really tired and can just about get through a quick bath and bottle before falling asleep. (did start a thread somewhere about whether this was too early).
Anyway, he now has:
7.30 am 7oz bottle
8 30ish breakfast (currently baby rice as he likes it & too early for wheat stuff I think)
11 small milk feed
11.30 lunch of eg potato / broccoli plus fruit puree
3pm 7 oz bottle
3.30 tea (same as lunch)
7pm 7-9 oz bottle then bed.

He's too tired for a proper meal so that's why I thought the rusk in the bottle sounded quite convenient. (a bit like a dunked biscuit and milk)

well, most people seem to agree that it's a bad idea, although so many people seem to do it....

I guess it's about risks and what you are prepared to do. THere is no evidence that there is any benefit to putting a rusk in the bottle apart from anecdotal which can be argued is coincidental anyway, but there is lots of evidence into why it is a risk.

For me the risks far outweigh any advantages of which there seem to be none really.

It's like a lot things in life. I always use car seats. Not everyone does though but for me it's an easy thing to do so I do it.

However there are things I will risk. I let my kids eat McDonalds occasionally, we have dogs etc

mumofben- dd has the 3.30 nursery tea routine too. we always treat that as a snack (they never give her much anyway) so give her a proper tea when she gets in, about 5pm. if there really is no time to do this or she is toooo tired i would suggest porridge or something like that. really rusks in bottles is just so inappropriate for so many reasons.

by the way, just looking at how your evening goes..do you have time to do a bath in the morning instead of the evening? then you would have more time for food in the evening? dd baths in the morning.

I have personally seen a child in a permenant vegetative state due to a choking episode with cereal in a bottle. The child was one, previously completely well.Please please please don't do it.....

oh my lord, naughtymummy, how absolutely awful.

That really is truly awful. If anything has put me completely off the idea - it's that.

In reply to dizzybint - no way!! mornings are a mad rush to get him up and dressed, his bottles done, me showered and dressed, him fed his bottle, and all out the door by 8!

I did try to give him his tea at 5 at the weekend, but found he wasn't hungry enough for his last bottle (and supposedly milk is still more important at the mo?)

I suppose I'm hoping he'll get used to having tea at 3.30. I 'm still not 100% sure he's waking due to hunger - he seems to be fine in the morning and quite happy, not waking up starving.

Thanks for the replies. I can see now why it's such a bad idea - but people who do things like that all the time kind of convince you that it's ok.