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New born seems to be spitting up entire meals. Should I be worried?
We have a baby that is a little over a week old and it seems like after some feedings she is spitting up what looks like her entire meal (breast feeding). I've been weighing her and she still seems ...
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Do I really need to wake my newborn to feed him?
We have a two week old child. He's eating well during the day, eating at least 8 times a day, and is breast feeding. His weight gain has been 'normal' so far, and he regained his original birth weight ...
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11-month old daughter suddenly refusing to eat lunch/dinner
My 11-month old daughter has, in the past week, become extremely fussy and at some meal times is refusing to eat.
For breakfast, we usually give her weetbix/rice cereal with milk (warmed in the ...
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How to simultaneously spoon feed twins?
My wife and I are on different schedules which during the week leaves one parent alone with the twins. Feeding the twins bottles at the same time has proven to be relatively easy. We are now in the ...
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How to improve the introduction of solid food?
My wife and I have six month old twin daughters whom we have just begun to feed solid foods. Per our doctor's instructions we have begun feeding the girls Beech-Nut Rice Cereal. In an effort to ...
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Should extra milk be given to 2-year-old at bedtime if not eating solids well during the day
Our little boy is 2 years old, and we are still giving him a large amount of formula milk at bed time.
He is not a good eater, and we don't want him to get hungry in the night.
Is it recommended to ...
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How long should a feeding be attempted?
My son has had a couple of consecutive, partial feedings (he is preemie: 5 months old, 1 month adjusted). At the hospital, one partial feeding wasn't a cause for alarm and they simply attempt to feed ...
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Why use rice cereal as a first food?
Searches have come up with when and which one, but no why. Why is it recommended or common to feed infants rice cereal as their first food? Why would we feed our daughter a processed food over a ...
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How can I encourage my child to feed himself with a spoon?
My 11 month old child will happily feed himself finger food, and is happy to let himself be spoon fed. However he doesn't seem to know what to do when I give him the spoon and bowl. Typically he'll ...
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Why is my newborn crying constantly?
my 4 week old daughter will not stop crying. We've tried everything from sucking, both on pacifiers and fingers to breastfeeding, white noise, movement, diaper is clean she doesn't seem to have a ...
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How can I switch an exclusively breastfed 1-year-old to food?
My 1 year old daughter eats very little. Infact she doesn't even drink bottled milk. Not to mention she hasn't gained much weight in the last couple of months. She mostly survives on mothers milk.
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How long can a 3-month-old go without eating?
My 3-month-old son has started sleeping through the night, with a vengeance. He sleeps for hours. And when he finally wakes up and I expect him to be starving, he's often still ready to happily play ...
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How can I keep my 1yr old from gagging and throwing up when eating solids?
My 1yr old son is still taking formula and 2nd foods because when we try most kinds of blended foods (foods with texture), he gags and throws up all over himself.
I've read quite a bit that this gag ...
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Is one big burp enough after feeding my infant?
I've read in many places that I should burp my baby for 5-10 minutes after feeding What I'm wondering is if it's ok to stop once the baby gives a nice loud burp, even if that was only a few seconds? ...
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How big should solid food for the infant be when doing baby-led weaning?
Our son has been supplementing his formula with solid food for several months now. We started him on simple cereals (rice cereal, oatmeal, etc.), then added basic jarred baby food. Now he's eating ...
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Why has my infant stopped eating?
My 10 month old has been a very good eater since we started feeding her solids at 6 months. She has been eating all sorts of things - she has 8 teeth, so has no trouble eating most table foods. She'd ...
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Why is my infant constipated after eating fruit pulp?
My 7mo son was only on breast milk till 6 months. I then started introducing formula and after a week of no issues, started with fruit pulp.
After fruit pulp, he has difficulty defecating and needs ...
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According to the following symptoms, is our son ready for mash?
It seems as if our six months old son has difficulties digesting his first lunch mash. We are using mash as it was described in several books:
carrots mash
carrots + potato mash
carrots + lamb meat ...
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How can we make our newborn accept the bottle?
Our baby has mainly been breast-fed so far, and while it has worked reasonably well (she's gaining weight) it be nice if I, as the father, could feed her once in a while to allow my wife some rest.
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If you warm whole milk, can it be saved in a refrigerator?
If you warm up whole milk prior to feeding a child and the child doesn't drink it all, can you save it by putting it in the refrigerator to warm up again later? Is this a bad idea?
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How do you warm the milk in a-drop in liner style bottle?
We're using Playtex drop-in bottles, and they say not to microwave. I don't know much about bottle warmers because our daughter would drink room-temperature milk until just recently (she's 1 y.o. now ...
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What's so hard about home made carrot baby food?
When we were dealing with baby foods, all the books and experts talked about how you could make your own baby food at home easily, except carrots. They all just said "don't even try", some even had a ...
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How do you ensure proper nutrition for a child in a vegetarian or vegan household?
I do not yet have children but I am a vegetarian. I am curious to know how vegetarians, and vegans, address the issue of nourishment. If it helps, I am vegetarian more for ethical reasons than health ...
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Why is my daughter pulling at her ear when she is eating?
I've read that this can happen during teething, and she is now 4 months. Thing is, she doesn't have any teeth and isn't really showing the signs in full force yet. She's not in any discomfort than I ...
