Feeding

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Permalink Reply by Verity on February 21, 2012 at 10:10

Hi Beth,

According to the BLW book I've got babies will drink or eat what their bodies need. Try not to worry too much, it's do hard to work out what babies are thinking and the reasons behind everything. 

Maybe try think of it that some days your more hungry and thirsty than others, so your lo will be the same. As long as you've done everything you can to check they are ok then there isn't anything more you can do as frustrating as it is.

My lo Finley goes through stages of loving a certain food then the next day he hates it and turns his nose up at it. He is also the same with his milk one day he will drink every last drop of every bottle the next he will only drink half or 1/4 of his bottles.

Babies like to keep their parents on our toes and be contrary!

X

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Permalink Reply by Sara B on February 21, 2012 at 21:38

Have you been givng him calpol whilst teething. The burps thing sounds like a reaction to sugar to me, it gets fermented in the gut rather than digested by some babies. It gives my son "square burps" they come out so hard and loud it is unreal, and really hurt him, he wont ake milk if he has had anything with sorbitol, fructose, sucrose or xlitol in it in high concentrations. We have resorted to paracetamol suppositries when totally desperate for temps, but apart form that he has no calpol etc as it just kills his feeding totally, xxx

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Permalink Reply by Beth on February 21, 2012 at 23:08

Oh my goodness Sara maybe you're onto something. These horrible burps have been for a couple of wks - and due to cold/teething I have been giving calpol over a couple of wks. About the amount of time he's started dropping his milk intake. In fact tonight I could see he wanted more milk but could hear lots of gurgling in his tummy and he was getting upset - then burped but still looked uncomfortable so although wanted more wouldn't take it. It has been such a huge change in his feeding but I just kept thinking he only has nutramigen AA so it couldn't be a reaction to anything. Totally forgot about the calpol. 

What could I give instead for teething or a cold then? X 

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Permalink Reply by Beth on February 21, 2012 at 23:20

Oh and if he was reacting to that (he might not be) but does that mean he isn't just CMPI? x 

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Permalink Reply by Jenny Rawling on February 22, 2012 at 13:10

I think Calpol upsets a lot of babies - it doesn't necessarily mean he's going to be MFPI so don't panic. My non-refluxer used to vomit violently if given calpol.

You can get liquid paracetamol without the colourings and flavourings from the chemist, but they may still have sugar/sweeteners in. Some people have been advised to give 1/4 of adult paracetamol tablet dissolved in water, but please speak to a pharmacist about it first.

Jen x

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Permalink Reply by Beth on February 22, 2012 at 14:11

Thanks Jen.  I guess at least at the moment it's easier to identify what might cause a reaction whilst he's only on nutramigen AA.  Although, I honestly never thought about the calpol as we've used it the odd time before and it's been fine but I guess we have used it a lot more over the last couple of weeks.

Does that mean it would be best not to give nurofen too? x

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Permalink Reply by Jenny Rawling on February 22, 2012 at 14:13

I think it depends what he is reacting to - we use nurofen without any probs but I suspect it has similar sweeteners etc in.

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