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Baby Bottle Feeding – 4 Problems That May Appear In Those Baby Bottle Feeding Times
Some parents take a very easy-going attitude to bottles and are happy to see them used as comfort objects and useful non-spill cups right through toddlerhood. Other parents regard baby bottle feeding as a necessary evil to be got rid of the moment their babies are capable of eating from spoons and drinking from cups. There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches but failing to decide which you are going to adopt is your worst option. If you let your baby do as she likes with her bottle when it is baby bottle feeding time all through this half-year and then suddenly decide that she must give it up altogether, you are all likely to have an unhappy time of it.
If the baby bottle feeding times are very often, babies who have constant access to bottles full of milk tend to get more and more attached to them, not only as a source of food and drink but also as a source of sucking comfort. The comfort is good for them, of course, just as the comfort of nursing is good for breast¬fed babies, but constant access may not be. You might find some of the following problems:
- a bottle-fed baby’s source of comfort is not in her mother’s control as a breast-fed baby’s is. So as she gets older, and more and more able to think of a bottle, and demand another bottle at any time of day or night, it is far more difficult to refuse her.
- if baby bottle feeding times are very often, babies are really hooked on their bottles and sometimes they drink so much milk that their appetite for solid foods, and therefore their chances of an optimal diet, is ruined.
- toddling around with a bottle of milk in her hand or her mouth limits manual play and efforts to talk and is also bad for teeth, so you have to you have to be present in her baby bottle feeding times as much as possible.
- sucking herself to sleep with a bottle of milk that pools in her mouth as she drowses is worse for a baby’s teeth than anything else (except a bottle of sweet-acid fruit juice) and might also choke her. Right now you may think you would never allow your baby to do such a thing, and maybe you would not. But if you reach a time when you know that a bottle means she will go happily to sleep all by herself, and go straight off again when she wakes in the night, and that no bottle means she will not, maybe you will. Certainly a lot of tired parents do.
Weaning your baby as soon as she drinks from a cup can raise the reverse of almost all those problems. Refusing to give any milk from a bottle can lead to the baby refusing to take any milk at all — and that is as bad for her diet as taking too much for too long, so you have to manage those baby bottle feeding times with as much attention as possible. Your baby may miss the sucking comfort so much that she takes to sucking her thumb and has that in her mouth all day. And of course cutting out the bedtime bottle can usher in problems over settling for the night.
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