Newborn Eating

We spent almost two weeks in the hospital trying to get Holly to eat her
entire bottle without being tubed and she was doing fine. We got home and
did get the wrong nipples for her bottle but now have the correct ones. The
problem is, she is supposed to be on about 75 ml for her size but will fall
asleep after eating just 60-70ml. Has anyone else had this problem and what
did you do? She has normal diapers and lots of dirty ones. We are just at
the end of our ropes.

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..oO rach Oo.

We spent almost two weeks in the hospital trying to get Holly to eat her
entire bottle without being tubed and she was doing fine. We got home and
did get the wrong nipples for her bottle but now have the correct ones.
The problem is, she is supposed to be on about 75 ml for her size but will
fall asleep after eating just 60-70ml. Has anyone else had this problem
and what did you do? She has normal diapers and lots of dirty ones. We are
just at the end of our ropes.

who or what is saying that a certain size baby must have a certain volume of
food? not all babies of a certain size will eat the same amount, they may
also eat more or less frequently. She is eating what she needs, just don't
delay the next bottle give it her when she asks for it, better still,
breastfeed.

Anne

..oO rach Oo. wrote:
We spent almost two weeks in the hospital trying to get Holly to eat
her entire bottle without being tubed and she was doing fine. We got
home and did get the wrong nipples for her bottle but now have the
correct ones. The problem is, she is supposed to be on about 75 ml
for her size but will fall asleep after eating just 60-70ml. Has
anyone else had this problem and what did you do? She has normal
diapers and lots of dirty ones. We are just at the end of our ropes.

My first baby had a hard time staying awake to eat in the very beginning.
There were some major difference and I don't know how that impacts things
but I'll give you the tricks I used in case they may be helpful.

* I'd change his diaper in the middle of the feed.
* I'd keep the lights dim. He closed his eyes to bright lights and then
went to sleep.
* I stripped his clothes off down to the diaper. The skin to skin (my bare
skin) seemed to stimulate him to eat longer.
* Gently give his chin a nudge to keep him going.
* In the beginning, when it was worse, I'd sometimes even place a damp cloth
on his back or head.
* Woke him every 2.5 hrs or so to eat accept for one 4 hour stretch at
night. I did that until he was demanding to eat on his own (around 2
weeks). He never went a 4 hour stretch again, lol.
* Tried burping him in the middle of a feed. He never burped I was just
trying to wake him up.
* Messed with his feet.
* Stroked his cheek which seemed to stimulate his suck reflex.

Some of the specifics for Hunter that might not be true in your case (just
so you know I'm not trying to indicate that the same things would/should
work for you!) Hunter was full term, biggish, and plenty strong (no trouble
with him being able to suck properly). He was very sleepy with jaundice.
His diaper counts were very low in the beginning. When he 'woke up' at
around 10-14 days he ate all the time and gained a shocking amount of weight
in no time flat because he was physically able to eat like that. He ate
straight from the breast so I couldn't measure amounts, I was just going by
the time he spent on the breast.


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She may not need as much as you are told. Most people don't know how many
mls their newborns are eating. The baby eats until it is full, then falls
asleep. As well, the baby will likely wake up and eat more again sooner
than if they'd eaten the full bottle. As long as baby is eating every
couple hours, seems satisfied, and filling lots of diapers, I wouldn't worry
too much about it. Also, since Holly has had issues and is so new still,
you're likely going back to the ped in just a few days, so you can verify
that she's still gaining weight. If she is, then I really would just follow
her lead. If she's not, then you'd have to work on ways to keep her awake,
or wake her again to try to feed her sooner. But, it's pretty hard to get a
baby to eat when they aren't hungry.
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".oO rach Oo." wrote in message
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We spent almost two weeks in the hospital trying to get Holly to eat her
entire bottle without being tubed and she was doing fine. We got home and
did get the wrong nipples for her bottle but now have the correct ones.
The problem is, she is supposed to be on about 75 ml for her size but will
fall asleep after eating just 60-70ml. Has anyone else had this problem
and what did you do? She has normal diapers and lots of dirty ones. We are
just at the end of our ropes.

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.oO rach Oo.

If baby only 5-10ml from finishing the full feed then I would not be too
concerned. It's a hard transition between tube to bottle/breast so it can
take a while for them to get up to decent volumes of milk. What hours are
you feeding? 2 hourly 3 or 4? You will most likely find whet she doesn't
drink now she will want later Keep a note of how much she drinks from
every bottle through a whole 24 hour period to check that she is close to
what she should be drinking.

If she was prem then you will most likely find that she will *wake up* when
her original due date comes around and will start drinking more also.


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Pip

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DD2 Abby - 8 weeks early now 11 months and cruising the furniture.
DD1 Jasmine - 5 weeks early now 3.75 yrs favourite saying "I'm a big girl
cause I go to school Kindy"

"Inside me is a skinny women screaming to get out........but I can normally
keep the b*tch quiet with cookies"

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".oO rach Oo." wrote in message
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We spent almost two weeks in the hospital trying to get Holly to eat her
entire bottle without being tubed and she was doing fine. We got home and
did get the wrong nipples for her bottle but now have the correct ones.
The problem is, she is supposed to be on about 75 ml for her size but will
fall asleep after eating just 60-70ml. Has anyone else had this problem
and what did you do? She has normal diapers and lots of dirty ones. We are
just at the end of our ropes.

--
.oO rach Oo.

".oO rach Oo." wrote in message
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We spent almost two weeks in the hospital trying to get Holly to eat her
entire bottle without being tubed and she was doing fine. We got home and
did get the wrong nipples for her bottle but now have the correct ones.
The problem is, she is supposed to be on about 75 ml for her size but will
fall asleep after eating just 60-70ml. Has anyone else had this problem
and what did you do? She has normal diapers and lots of dirty ones. We are
just at the end of our ropes.

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.oO rach Oo.

Gosh, I think there is such a large range of what's normal... My daughter
is now a month old, and rarely finishes a 2 oz bottle in one sitting. Which
means we end up feeding alot more often - like every 2 hrs or so. She is
gaining great, and has plenty of diapers too.

Betsy