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Move her into her own room. At 8 months of age, our daughter was in our room and still breastfeeding. She would wake up 2-3 times a night, from what we could tell was hunger. (She'd eat and then go back to sleep.) We are fairly quiet sleepers and don't really move around our bed so much, so it wasn't like we were making noises which would wake her up. I ...

I would say it's completely safe so long as the bottles have been adequately rinsed to remove any detergent residue. There will always be trace bacteria kicking around in many places, even if the bottle was clear, by the time you have assembled the cup and lid and teat etc together, and handled the formula container which last week was sat on a supermarket ...

The biggest risk is that the baby won't drink it. If your baby is content to drink cold milk, then it is perfectly fine. I couldn't find any online resources from medical professionals discussing it, but I did find that you are not alone in your situation :) Lots of other mothers have had this same dilemma, and many in that discussion shared that they ...

It is absolutely real. When our son was born, he had jaundice, so the doctors had us feed him some formula through a syringe for the first 2 days to lower the bilirubin levels. Our son started sucking on the syringe, despite our best efforts to avoid this. As a result, he became extremely frustrated while attempting to breastfeed, as the milk was not ...

No, it's not required. Lots of children are born into dirty surroundings and still survive. Yes, it's advised for newborns and infants because they have not yet built up enough immune resistance. Baby bottles, teething toys, and other objects that the newborn/infant puts in the mouth can be sterilized to reduce any unnecessary burden on the child. Once the ...

Some nipples require less effort than nursing from the breast. Milk flows from some just by holding them upside down. In this case, the child only has to stop the flow by covering the opening with the tongue to rest or to swallow. Some children prefer this pattern to the sucking necessary for the breast. Of course, the strength for later eating and speech ...

I did find research on the effect of milk temperature on preterm infants at http://milkbank.com/pdf/Stanford_Study_milk_feeding_temperature.pdf A summary of the results included the following statement: The infants in this study had a similar tolerance (as measured by gastric residuals) to both cool temperature milk (10°C) and room temperature milk (24°C). ...

As a speech language pathologist, I encourage straw cups over sippy cups! Spouted cups require generally the same oral motor skills as drinking from a nipple. The tongue is positioned forward under the spout.These sucking patterns are more immature and may actually impede the development of a more mature swallow and speech patterns for some children. Also, ...

We had a similar situation with my 14 month old, and it was definately a sleep association rather than actual hunger (although it was with the breast, rather than a bottle). After figuring out it was a sleep assocaition, we just cut off 1 feed per few weeks or so (ie. first wake of the night we did not offer milk), and offered comfort instead (cuddles from ...

Both my sons needed to be fed by bottle early on (my wife didn't produce enough to breast-feed). What we experienced was that if we didn't take a pause to burp in the middle of the meal, he would more likely gulp up when finished. So for us it was basically twice for each meal (one in the middle of the meal, and one after finished). It was not always easy to ...

You should never microwave the milk. The only way to warm up the milk is under warm running water which takes some time but it is acceptable. There are special bags available for freezing milk which contain enough for one feeding. If the baby is less than 6 weeks old you wife should not express milk unless absolutely necessary in order not to cause ...

For ours I find it works pretty well to start to simply start to pull the bottle out of her mouth, or wiggle it around. I start gentle and increase to fairly aggressive wiggling as needed and so far we have not suffered any bottle nipple related injuries. The advantage to this is you don't really have to change positions from feeding. However you have to ...

While it might be useful on a long road trip to be able to do this, it is certainly easier to do this when at a rest stop - one of mine really needed to be burped after a bottle, and this worked best in the traditional 'over the shoulder' position, so we couldn't have done that safely when driving. It also gives both the driver and partner time to work ...

My husband and I visit his family in Wisconsin at least once or twice or year. Until this year, we lived in Tennessee and this was a 12+ hour drive which we dutifully did with our son/son and daughter until this year when we realized that driving from Georgia would add another 4 hours to the drive. So now we fly. During that time, we ALWAYS stopped to ...

A six month old can sleep up to eight hours without feeding. We had the issue that I had to work (+ commute) while breastfeeding and was getting utterly exhausted by having to wake up for night-time feeds. A pediatrician told us that our then six-month-old son is asking for his night-time bottles because of the comfort and company and not out of hunger. We ...

We plan to sterilize bottles until he is 12 mo. Sippy cups we just wash because they have no milk in them. We have devoted one veggie crisper drawer in the frig to store the sterilized bottles. To answer your question I would think the droplets of water are fine, especially if you are on city water. If on well water you might want to have it checked. There ...

It depends on the age of your child: For infants, washing is not enough because they don't have adequate immune defense. Consider properly sterilizing the bottles instead. Older children have built up enough of an immune system to cope with unsterilized bottles, and I would not worry at all about the bottles being any degree of wet, as long as they're ...

Hospitals have schedules to keep and nurses who must divide their attention among several babies. For our preemie we never heard about any time restriction due to calories burned. It was more try for 30 minutes and then they were sorry, but they had to attend to other patients. However, they would let us try for as long as we wanted. The only real issue ...

First you get her on a schedule, then you adjust the schedule to fit your needs. At bedtime you want to try to feed her a little bit more than she drinks during the day, so she can go longer between. In my experience, the easiest way for parents and baby to get on a schedule is to set your alarm clock to wake up a half hour or so before your daughter ...

Nipple confusion (also known as nipple preference) is very real. It can go either way, first baby was bottle fed almost from birth, and definately preferred the flow of the bottle compared with the 'effort' needed with a breast. (No matter how 'real to life' a bottle is, fact is milk will always drip out weather baby sucks or not, not so during the duration ...

If the majority of feedings are nursing, you should be able to tell if you're starting to have any issues with nursing and adjust the bottles. You can decrease the bottle feedings if you have nursing issues, and change the bottle. As for the actual difference, there's the milk vs formula taste, flow of liquid, temperature, and shape of the nipple. Taste: ...

It's quite simple. Freezing is the best way to store longer time (make sure it's a proper 3 or 3+ star freezer, preferably not an "auto defrosting" one). The most convenient way to store is to use those plastic ice-cube bags as they allow you to portion the milk. For warming, it's most easy to put the cubes in a (most easily wide neck) bottle. Put the bottle ...

I would take him to the store and let him pick a couple of cups for milk, "Which cup looks the best for drinking milk?". Then at home, give him an option between the cups, "Would you like milk in the red or blue cup?". He may be more likely to drink milk if he has some control over what he drinks it from.

The milk fat is easily washed away, so I would rule that out. I think what you're seeing is the dried calcium of the tap water, especially if it seems powdery and can be rubbed off when dry. I think this is what user77907 means by scale. This is especially the case if your tap water is very hard. You need not worry about these deposits: according to ...

Can I start using it from the first day onwards? No, you do not want to begin pumping right away. In order to establish an adequate milk supply you want to be nursing on demand or using a hospital-grade electric pump if you plan on exclusively pumping. Exclusively pumping requires a significant time and energy committment because it has neither ...

Yes, you can feed your baby a room-temperature bottle. No, you should not feed your baby a fridge-temperature bottle. The reason is that infants are very small bodies, so temperature differences are more significant to them than to older kids or adults. Infants can't handle a steaming hot cup of tea, just like they can't handle milk that's just a few ...

After a few weeks of trying out different strategies we've settled on something that didn't even occur to me: We are freezing 100% of the milk, flat, in Lansinoh Breast Milk Storage Bags. Because we are freezing the milk flat there is a massive amount of surface area so the milk thaws almost instantaneously under hot water from the faucet. I am no longer ...

The factors that are important to you! But seriously: Obviously as a bottle warmer it needs to warm milk. Since it's warming it for a baby, it needs to not make the milk too hot, which requires either a timer or sensor. Assuming you aren't carrying around a generator, it needs a power source, probably a battery. You explicitly mention weight, so that's a ...

Before our daughter was born we took a first-parents class. This is apparently a common enough occurrence that they actually discussed it. I'll try my best to describe what they showed us to do. If you've ever seen the movie Inception the sensation of falling wakes people up. This apparently holds true even for babies. We were told to firmly support the ...

Many Hospitals in the US have Lactation consultants and this is all they do. We had issues with our second child that was stressing both the baby and the mommy out. The consultant came in and worked wonders for us. Also check out La Leche League, an organization of lactation consultants: http://www.llli.org/resources.html