I found that to get them to learn the bottle (if absolutely
necessary) I would feed until my boy went to sleep and then carefull swap
the nipple for the bottle and then once sucking I would sort of wake him -
so he knew he had the dreaded bottle in his mouth. It took a while
but after a few goes like this he seemed to learn that it was the same
stuff.
Good luck.
Rhonda.
-------Original Message-------
Date: Monday, July 28,
2003 21:00:08
Subject: Re:
[ozmidwifery] co sleeping
Hi Kathy, I have co-slept with all of
my children & on returning to work (I used to work mainly night shift
with my 2nd & third) my husband coped quite well with EBM in the
fridge & freezer. My problem was that none of my previous 3
children ever really took to the bottle even with EBM in it. We did
find however that they woke less when I wasn't there to feed them &
would just come to me when I arrived home with bursting breasts for a huge
feed. When they got older, Marty would just take a bottle of water
to bed with him (The kids slept with him even when I wasn't there) &
they would have a small amount of water. I haven't returned to work
again after my last babe (he's 4.5 mths) but I'm also a little worried as
he is not interested in having EBM in the bottle... he also wants the real
thing (actually I think he is suffering from what I call reverse nipple
confusion...... he has no idea what to do with a bottle teat). Good
Luck. TIna H.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 2:35
PM
Subject: [ozmidwifery] co
sleeping
I too am co sleeping with my six month old baby
and am loving every bit of it. She is my third child and I didn't
do it with the other two (don't know why). She tends to feed a lot
at night which hasn't been a problem. However, I don't
know what to do now as I am returning to work in a month and don't know
how my partner will cope with these night time grazings if I am out with
a labouring woman. Can anyone offer me any advice? She
probably feeds every 2 hours, but it is more of a snack than a decent
feed. we am getting plenty of pressure to do the controlled
crying thing in order to get her feeding less frequently at night which
we really don't want to do, but on the other hand we need to make the
situation more manageable for my husband who doesn't have the boobs if
I'm not there overnight. Many thanks, Kathy
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