baby bottle question

spaghetti_monster

Wow! I'm in Holland and it's absolutely standard practice to give your baby a bottle with cereal in - in fact it was on the advice of the pediatrician I saw this week!

He has also been eating the cereal as suggested (made to porridge texture and sometimes with pureed fruit), usually in the morning.
I posted a while back about some sleeping problems and there were mixed answers about whether or not feeding solids helped a baby to sleep better. I waited with solids till he was 6 months. Lots of Dutch mums I know, a Dutch baby book I have (and of course this doctor) all go on about putting a bit of the rice cereal in a bottle at bedtime to help with sleep, so I thought why not give it a try. Didn't know it was such a no no!

Bumpmakesfour

Nicki wrote: »

The standard advice is not to add anything to bottles as others have said.

BUT my youngest had severe reflux and I was advised by his paediatrician to add thickening agents to his milk to help it stay down. Initially, we used a thickening powder, and then the doctor told us we could use powdered baby rice to make it the same consistency.

I'm not on net mums by the way

We had to do same for our prem,but that's for medical reasons.
Babies at the OPs age are within the ideal window of opportunity to learn the all important oral skills,the chewing,building jaw muscle tone,the swallowing skills for when the consistency of solids becomes more lumps than puree.So really rice etc should be spoon fed and milk kept in bottles

Bumpmakesfour

spaghetti_monster wrote: »

Wow! I'm in Holland and it's absolutely standard practice to give your baby a bottle with cereal in - in fact it was on the advice of the pediatrician I saw this week!

He has also been eating the cereal as suggested (made to porridge texture and sometimes with pureed fruit), usually in the morning.
I posted a while back about some sleeping problems and there were mixed answers about whether or not feeding solids helped a baby to sleep better. I waited with solids till he was 6 months. Lots of Dutch mums I know, a Dutch baby book I have (and of course this doctor) all go on about putting a bit of the rice cereal in a bottle at bedtime to help with sleep, so I thought why not give it a try. Didn't know it was such a no no!

Just goes to show how advice varies from country to country and mum to mum.If your own paediatrician has advised you to do this then who am I to argue otherwise? x

Ravenlady_2

Its almost frowned up on in the UK and if any mums did do it its best not to mention it, its almost like a dirty little secret.
Along with eating your weight in Brie and giving in and having a cigarette whilst pregnant.

Janepig

pigpen wrote: »

You are advised not to add stuff to bottles now as it increases the choking risk.. you would be better mixing it with his mik and giving him it from a spoon

Now? It's not recent advice, my eldest is 8 and a half and this was the advice before she was born! I wasn't the type of mum that eats up advice and has to follow everything by the book, for instance, I made up feeds in advance for both of mine :eek: against advice, but I do wonder how people who are obviously internet savvy enough to post questions on here, get by without absorbing what is or isn't "acceptable" medical advice with regard to their babies.

Jx

pigpen

Janepig wrote: »

Now? It's not recent advice, my eldest is 8 and a half and this was the advice before she was born! I wasn't the type of mum that eats up advice and has to follow everything by the book, for instance, I made up feeds in advance for both of mine :eek: against advice, but I do wonder how people who are obviously internet savvy enough to post questions on here, get by without absorbing what is or isn't "acceptable" medical advice with regard to their babies.

Jx

This has been the advice as long as I have been a mum.. though the weaning age has raised.

It is also in the baby books, free bounty books etc And a well behaved mum woud be having their child weighed every 2-4 weeks so they would have contact with people who can offer this advice

Ravenlady_2

But the OP is Dutch, its encouraged there. She was just asking about teats.

This site is quite worldwide and not limited to the UK so I think respecting the advice given to mums in other countries is the best course of action and sticking to what your were advised rather than criticising the OP

jenjade

pigpen wrote: »

You are advised not to add stuff to bottles now as it increases the choking risk.. you would be better mixing it with his mik and giving him it from a spoon

I agree dont mix stuff to the babies milk for it to drink. if you want to give rice then wean the baby mix the rice with a bit of milk and feed on a spoon but that is not actually advised until the baby is 6 months.

durham_girl

To answer the question that was actually asked.....;)

My son also had the Born Free bottles and loved them as the teat was a bit longer than the Tommee Tippee ones he had previously. Each time we moved up a stage he had a couple of days getting used to the larger hole before adjusting to it and guzzling even more! I would say it was perfectly normal.

shariatlanta

How times change, 30 years ago when my second daughter was a baby she had a whole Farleys rusk in her last bottle from about 8 months, nobody thought anything of it as it was normal practice then and no special teats either, just cut the top off a normal one.