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Food intake of 7 month old

Yummy Mummy — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:27:25 GMT

Hi everyone

Just wondering how much your baby eats. My daughter is 7.5 months old. She has two solid meals per day (which seems to be the standard amount from what I have read. Plus 4 bottles of formula per day. The formula package says she only needs 3 bottles per day, but my daughter is so hungry. Just wondering if I should cut out one bottle and increase her solid feeds to three meals per day.

Any thoughts?

Reduce dependency on the boob

Johnny-2007 — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:22:08 GMT

Hey all. Trying to get as many options as we can as our current situation is very tough on my wife (mianly).

So our baby. 11 months old at time of post. Very needy. Won't sleep without boob, won't sleep alone, currently sleeps in our bed. Won't sleep through the night( never has) and is VERY shy. generally very clingy..

Mother- she is now 11w towards the next baby. Still breast feeding to supplemt baby led wheaning. Returns to work in next few weeks. And her boobs have started getting sensitive.

So what we are really looking for from this thread are options we can try, to develope a lesser need for the boob. As it is currently. She wil not sleep without the boob and often, more often the not, takes a number of attempts to actually go to sleep.

Have have started giving her formula, this she will usually have about 60 to 80 ml of. But won't go to sleep with it- not that she should anyway so I'm led to believe.

Anyway, please post your ideas, any tried and tested ways. Anything really. This amongst othe issues need to be resolved to help keep my wife's sanity.

Helping little ones cope with pain

candiceloopstra — Fri, 25 May 2012 20:50:54 GMT

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Struggling to settle 4 month old for day sleeps

VCSmith — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:28:27 GMT

Hi there,

My 4 month old daughter has started to get really difficult to settle when going down for naps during the day.

Previously I haven't had a problem - when she starts to show signs of tiredness I would wrap her, put her down and she would cry for a minute or so then drop off to sleep.

In the past week, she has stared getting upset when I wrap her and finds it hard to wind down. I alternate patting/rocking/singing softy and she nearly nods off but as soon as I place her down in the cot she gets really upset.

It makes daytime sleeps really stressful. I should note that she doesn't have a problem going down each night or when she wakes during the night (thankfully!).

Has anyone experienced this? Any tips?

VS.

formula , expressing and breast feeding

mybabypanda — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:07:53 GMT

hi, i am currently breastfeeding my 3 months old boy and is looking to put him on formula during the weekend as i will b starting work again soon, and that will b only 2 days week end work.

the trouble is that i use to expressed to try to get him to the bottle but it only 1 time he took it, and since then he never took the bottle, even tho we time several time, he will just start crying like hell n will only take the breast.

And i recently just bought formula, coze expessing was getting hard n he feed a lot. i try the formula, n he didnt want to take it either.

and also he never like dummy.

i dont really know wat to do as im starting work on soon.

thanks

baby panda

confused on when to start solid, plz help ..

mybabypanda — Sun, 20 May 2012 07:38:40 GMT

Hi, im just a bit confused of when to starts puree food, i have been told by the community health nurse that 4 months is the good time to start introducing puree food to our baby. But now is totally confused, because this wedsite recommend the 6 months period. I really want to have some ppl opinion on this before i start doing anything???

And when they said Baby cereal ?? i never heard from them before, can anyone advise me on the best one out there for baby first cereal.

I seriously cant wait to introduce puree food to my baby boy, he is a big feeder when it come to breastmilk and he is also a big boy for this age. Some days i really cant get any rest between breast feeding because he will just want to feed. And that why i thought 4 months was a good time to start solid for him. I also have saw the sign of baby ready for solid with him. suking n munching on this hand, looking at our food when we are eating and constantly on the breast.

I know he is gona be a big eater but i dont want to hurt him in anyway, by forcing him on something but also i would not want to starve a baby.

pls help anyone, with good advice or same situation before..thanks

Any Medicine for 6 months old baby?

erinlee — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:35:09 GMT

We just arrived from Singapore and is settling down in Perth well, but not for the kids. Brought my 6 months old baby to the doc as she is down with flu. Guess what, she told me there's no oral medicine for children below the age of 2. Is that true? Currently, am only able to use Vicks and Fess Littlenose on her. Back in Singapore, when my other 2 kids were sick, the pd will prescribe Pedicof for them to stop the running nose and they recover within a week. It's been more than a week since my youngest girl has flu, what should I do?

12 month old still waking frequently for bottles

LJMsmum — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:53:31 GMT

Hi Everyone

My 12 month old DD still wakes frequently during the night. Sometimes the only way to get her back to sleep is to give her a bottle. She's having 4 bottles per day (three are at night 7pm, midnight and 4am) and everyone tells me that is too many for her age. My maternal and child health nurse wants me to cut back to two and not give her any after 7pm.

Has anyone else had this problem? How did you go about getting your baby to sleep through the night?

Thanks

childhood immunisation

tifjar — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:11:36 GMT

Hi all,

I have just been doing research on immunisation there is so much information and so confusing. There is plenty of debate both for and against immunisation. What else is disturbing is that the government isn't making it compulsary but they will not pay family tax benefit at tax time if children are not immunise. They will if you have an exemption which you need from the dr who generally wants everyone one immunised!!!! How do other parents feel about this??

Starting solids at 3 months??

Smurf79 — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:18:19 GMT

Any advice on starting solids at 3 months old. I have tried twice and only given a teaspoon of food each time.

Has anyone else done this?

Have you had any problems?

Phlemy cough

Marengo81 — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:09:29 GMT

Hi,

I have a 7 month old son who has had a runny nose and sometimes gets blocked for a week, which I have been spraying Fess for little noses, now he has a cough which is phlemy you can hear when he coughs and sometimes almost gags on it.
I know there are no medications I can give him except Panadol and rub Vicks on him.

Does anyone have any other remidies that might help, or they have used...

How to wean a 10 month old who won't drink formula or cows milk

Mrsm11 — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:49:05 GMT

I am hoping someone can help as I'm keen to wean my 10 month old son from breastfeeding but we have tried 6 different kinds of formula and cow's milk (our Dr. said it is ok to try some cow's milk as he is nearly 1 year old and hates formula), but he hates them all. He hates cow's milk the least, and will somtimes drink 10ml only from a sippy cup before refusing it completely. He is ok with not breastfeeding during the day if I do not offer it as he is so busy and will drink some water from a cup during the day, but wants to feed around 4 or 5 times overnight. I am tired from all the night feedings, but that is not the main issue - I want to begin weaning slowing that we have achieved the goal by the time he turns 1 year old as I am returning to work and we want to try for another baby in around 6 months time and I want a few months break, but I have no idea how to get other milk into him as I know he needs around 3 milk feeds per day until he turns 2, or deal with cutting night feeds when I can't get him to take any milk before bed unless it is from the breast, let alone trying to offer other milk during the wee hours. The other issue is that he is now completely refusing to be spoon fed, he only wants to self feed and this means that he taking in minimal solids as a lot ends up on the floor or smushed into his clothes/hair for fun. He will drink yogurt from a straw/tube which is good, but naturally I am still concerned that he is not yet receiving enough nutrition from solids to cut any of the remaining feeds. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

worrying poo appearance

sunu.mia — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:10:07 GMT

Since 1 March until now my daughter (12 weeks old) has worrying poo appearance. She had watery poop for 3 - 4 times a day with lots of nappy stain. Couple of times i found it had tinge of blood. On 4 March I went to 1st GP and diagnosed with gastro viral and told it will be gone in 1 week but unfortunately still not getting better.
On 13 March went to another GP and got referral to royal children hosp and I am still waiting appointment from the hospital. The GP himself didn't give any diagnose.
Today 19 March, she poop 3 times, all of them during feeding. Last poop were mucus yellow green colour with tinge of blood.
She vomit too occasionally.
My daughter fully breastfed, overall she look ok, no fussy (she actually sleep better now compares to 2 mths ago).
FYI she got her 1st vaccination on 17 Feb.
Can anyone help me please. I am getting very worried cause it seems going nowhere.
Thanks

7kg for a 3 month old baby girl. is it too much!?

icry — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:27:36 GMT

My daughter is 3 months old and weighs just over 7kg. Her height is 63cm.
I know she's a very high percentile but I'm worried she's too big.
The nurse said it isn't so bad cause her length and hc is up there too.

Will more tummy time help at all for her not to gain so much weight?
She's having 4-5 bottles of about 200ml a day. And thats what the packet says..

Any ideas to slow her gain a little?, (not anything that could hurt her)

Thanks.

6 month change to sippy cups?

chloelane17 — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:21:59 GMT

Hi everyone,

Just wanting some advice!
I was thinking about changing my 6 month old son to have his formula in a sippy cup type thing? or to keep him on his nuk bottles?

3 and a half month old screams during breast feeding

gwellsINF506 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:27:59 GMT

Hi,
My 3 and a half month old screams during breast feeding.The baby is in obvious discomfort but we are told by the doctors it isn't reflux.
She shows all the signs of being hungry and has a feeding pattern but as soon as she is put on the breast she starts screaming throughout and feeds basically despite whatever discomfort she is in.
The baby has been exclusively breast fed, is putting on weight though a little light (now 5+ kilos).
Any advice?

plzz help

zhk9142 — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:06:42 GMT

Hi everyone..
I am a mother of 12 month old lil angel...we have been.busy preparing for her first birthday but before we could celeberate it one day i noticed a lump in her groin while changing her nappy.i was so freaked out i just started checking her thoroughly may be she fell down and i didnt knw or something hit her while playing in her playpen..but she was fine other wise. I put her nappy back and anxiously waited for my husband to come from office. As soon as he came i showed him and we went to see our gp right away.when the gp undressed her tge lump wss gone however when he palpated he could feel a swelling..he said may be its a lymph node and will settle on.ita own .if it doesnt in one to two week you should do ultrasound.welll it didnt and we went for ultrasound.to our surprise it came out to be an indirect inguinal hernia... now we are waiting to get anappointment from pediatric surgeon. In the mean time i have done so much research on net which has further diturbed me ..like androgen insensitivity sydrome..is commonly seen in girls with inguinal.hernia .its something when genetically its boy amd physically a girl.iam sooo scared now..please give me some hope..share some views woth me.iam.very stressed out ..
Ur reply will be appreciated.
Thanks.
.

How should I be putting 4 month old to sleep?

DiamondStar — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:44:19 GMT

I currently get my 17 week old DD off to sleep by breastfeeding her - every time. It works very well and quickly.

Should I be putting her to sleep differently? Ie. putting her to down when dowsy and dealing with the crying? I did try this morning to NOT feed her to sleep but she just cried and cried and I was holding her! I didn't even get to put her in the bassinet. So after 30 mins i feed her and she was off to sleep in 5 mins.

She will not accept a dummy either. Never has - just will not.

Also, she suddenly only sleeps for 45 min during the day, every time. Like clockwork. Thought it may have something to do with the feeding to sleep, but she sleeps well at night 5-8 hours.

She is still wrapped and I'm pretty sure that she still requires this. At what age do we start to go unwrapped.

So many questions... any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks...

Introducing a Bottle at 7 months

Megs999 — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:56:44 GMT

Hi there. Need some help if anyone has any suggestions. I'm going back to work soon and need to get my son on to breastmilk via a bottle. I've tried, my partner has tried, my sister in law has tried but my son just seems to play with it and not really know what to do with it. Anyone got any helpful hints?

Save Our Sleep Routine

LukiesMum+1 — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:05:13 GMT

Has anyone used the save our sleep routine from day one (or thereabouts)? I've just finished reading the book and I'm wondering how it worked for others. My boy put himself into his own routine but I'm reading up for no. 2! I'm struggling with a few of her concepts eg. If baby wakes after 40mins get them up and keep them up until their next scheduled sleep. Doesn't this teach catnapping? My boy was a screaming mess if he was kept up too long, no way we would have made it to the next sleep time!!

Need some advice/reassurance re 3 month old feeding

MeganD — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:10:54 GMT

Hi all, first time I've posted anything online and first time Mum too!

My son is 3 months old and over the past week I have been having a lot of trouble feeding him. for a period of a couple of weeks he was drinking about 180ml - 200ml per feed, five times a day. He now will only take around 130-150ml and he gets quite upset during feeds. He has only once woken up during the night for a feed since he reduced the amount he is taking, so he is still only feeding five times a day.

He is bang on average weight and doesn't seem to be hungry at all - I'm more anxious about it than he is!

Has anyone else experienced this? I guess I'm just wondering if it's normal. I was thinking he may have been going through a growth spurt as he put on about 450gm in two weeks as well as a 1.5cm and has now settled back down but it just doesn't seeem to be enough formula. Most books recommend 150ml per kg and he is just over 6kg.

Would love to hear some thoughts on this.

Thanks

6 month boy crying

louscoe — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:59:51 GMT

I have a beautiful 6 month boy that sleeps through the night but hates sleeping during the day. As this has gone on, I have found that he crys more and more now during the day, and is very unsettled in things he used to love doing. If I am not in the same room, he starts whinging, but sometimes now he starts whinging even when I AM in the same room. He won't stop whinging or crying until I have picked him up, and I am finding that he is relying on me to do this every time now. I love my son very much, but don't want to hold him or carry him everywhere all the time...PLEASE HELP ME for I am getting very stressed about this problem.

Please please help !!!!! 8 and half month old won't drink his formula. He loves his solids.

Bella_00 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:41:24 GMT

Stress as ever

Packaged Baby Food and holiday in Bali

cem70 — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:42:21 GMT

Hello. I'm going to Bali for three weeks in two months with my baby who will be then 6 months. For hygiene reasons, I want to take all pre prepared commercial food (I'm anticipating she should have started solids by then). Can anyone please recommend the most healthiest of all the different brands of commercial food (maybe you prefer some brands/products to others after experience.). Also, anyone got any good tips for baby care in Bali (other than prevent mosquito bites, dehydration, safe car travel etc).

Big thanks

waking at 3am

TamBam — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:19:01 GMT

My 8 month old son is continually waking around 3am and not going back to sleep unless I cuddle him. If I dont cuddle him enough he screams as soon as hes back in the cot, so it seems im stuck on the couch for about an hour with him. He goes back to sleep normally after having a drink from his bottle when he wakes earlier in the night. Any tips on what I can do?

stressed out mum

TamBam — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:38:13 GMT

My second child is 8 months and i'm really struggling with him. He is lactose intolerant, doesn't sleep very well, always wants to be cuddles. Yet he can eat solid foods, loves to play, is great with his hands. I'm jsut getting stressed out too easily and getting grumpy when I can't work out whats wrong with him/ When he cries its an awful scream. I never felt this way with his sister. Do other mums get this way? I'm starting to feel like such a bad mum because i'm always grumpy!!

Child Safety Engineering

engineer22 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:08:09 GMT

I am a mechanical engineering student currently tasked with working on a year long design project. I'm very interested in safety design and would greatly appreciate any input parents might have concerning problems you would love to see solved or possibly any improvements you would like to see made to existing child safety technologies. Thanks for your time and I hope I can be of help.

Frank

Separation Anxiety

shayne79 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:50:34 GMT

I have a wonderful 7 month old baby boy who was until recently was going to sleep without to much trouble. I have read a few things and have put it down to Separation Anxiety I have looked a few websites but nothing really gives me techniques on how to help Xavier over come his separation anxiety and go to sleep without fuss. We have tried controlled crying which ended in over 2 hours of crying and tired it for a second night that lasted 1.5 hours. I don't want Xavier to reply on me putting him to bed every night with a cuddle or rocking.

Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Why do teething rusk labels say 6mths+?

JustMarried — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:32:32 GMT

Hi all,

After reading as many forum topics as I can find on teething rusks, I am still unsure what the reason is for manufacturers only being allowed to promote teething rusks for 6 months+. Is anyone able to enlighten me? I have discovered that lots of people have chosen to use them sooner, all for different reasons. And I am gradually heading that way for my 4 month old, but I'm still very keen to find out all the details.

Cheers

Moving bubs to his own room

Emma&Harrison — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:49:52 GMT

We are putting our beutiful boy into his own room this wkend, I'm happy about getting our room back (&hopefully sleeping better!) but sad at how far away he will be from me (his room is a long way from our room)...has anyone eles had a hard time making the move? I keep putting it off but want to do it sooner rather than later so he is ok setteling himself to sleep in a new enviroment.

He is 5 months & 4 wks, wake's 2 -8 times over night but is easy to re-settle.

Ant tips would be appriciated

Baby wont sleep and I feel like I've tried everything

Jaksynnxaidynsmum — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:06:54 GMT

Hi, I'm a first time mum with a nearly 6 month old baby boy, my problem is this. Until 7 weeks ago Jaksyn was sleeping 6.30-5 every night with out a feed. We went to visit family as I had an operation and wasn't allowed to bend over and pick him up, I needed someone to pick him up and hand him to me. Since we got back his sleep routine has been shot. I feel like I've tried everything, controlled crying doesnt work if I try and wait 5 minutes to see if he will go back to sleep by 3 minutes he is crying so hard it takes almost an hour to get him back to sleep. He hates blankets, being wrapped or covered so he wears a sleeping bags to bed, he wont take a dummy, he's stopped sucking his thumb, we give him a massage after his bath before he goes to sleep with Lavender massage cream, he gets bathed with baby bed time and we even burn lavender to try and help calm him down. But he still wakes up to 9 times a night, I eventually resort to having him sleep next to me but now he is trying to breast feed the whole time he is in bed with me. He refuses bottles so daddy cant help with that. I'm just getting to the end of my tether and I'm considering taking him to the Doctors and see if there is anything medically wrong with him. Any other suggestions to try and get sleep out of him would be greatly appreciated

Tips on how to fit baby sleeps around school drop off times

lilandlu — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:09:00 GMT

Hello

If my gorgeous little 5 1/2 month old gets an hours sleep a day we are having a good day.

This has been going on for about the last 4 weeks at least, since she was born she has never had more that 4 hours sleep during the day (and never all at once)

During the night I am still up 1 - 2 times - I am actually ok with this, my first started to sleep through at around 10 months, so I am not to worried about this..but she will wake between 5 am and 7 am and then i am lucky if i can get her down for more than half an hour before she hits bed for the evening at around 7 pm - 7 30 pm.

I am not sure whether part of the problem has been that since she was a week old she has been along for the ride in dropping her 6 y/o sister to school and then picking her up. (there is no way out of school drop off) She also has reflux.

so basically I have always had to try and get an over tired baby to sleep and on so many occasions when she has been asleep I have had to wake her.

She obviously will get to the point she is beside her self, she will be like this for a couple of minutes at a time over the day and then be her happy self again.

She needs more sleep, some advice on how to fit it in during a school day would be great.

any other advice would be good too

Probs Sleeping Elsewhere

Mandy — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:06:33 GMT

Hello,

I have an almost 8mth old beautiful baby boy who sleeps soundly in his own bedroom in his own cot.....lucky am I. My only problem is that he wont go to sleep anywhere else but in his normal surrounds...his cot in his room...(!)

We are going away on the weekend (only for one night) and I thought that I might put him in our room for a night or two, so that he could get used to sleeping somewhere other than his own room, thinking that it wouldn't be that bad because this is where he started out in the bassinet! BUT, he cried, screamed and screamed for 2hrs solid, even if I was there to calm him, which didn't help one bit! We did our exact same routine before putting him down in our room but to no avail! Once I had finally picked him up and moved him back to his own room and layed him down in his cot he was asleep before 10mins was up!!

Has any one else had this problem or does anyone else have any suggestions on what I might be able to do to help my little man feel more comfortable sleeping in a strange place??

10mth old fussy eater, please help

sara_b2 — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:30:19 GMT

Hi everyone I am new to this forum.

My 10mth old is a very fussy eater, she wakes up in the morning about 7,8 or 9 we have breakfast which is always weetbix and milk then play then about 10.30 she has a bottle then nap.

Lunch time is around 12ish and she will have pureed food or the bottled food you get at the supermarket, lamb cassarole, pasta bog etc. when i make these meals alot of the time she will refuse them. she seems to like the brought stuff. After lunch we play again and about 2ish she has another bottle and bed. up at 4ish. we have dinner around 6ish which is the same thing only will eat pureed food. even if i try and put broccoli, carrotts, pumpkin anything whole on her plate she throws it off. she refuses to put anything in her mouth, unless its pureed on a spoon. after tea i will give her banana and custard the bottle and bed around 8.

I dont know what to do with her eating, i have run out of ideas doing different things to get her to eat solid food. She has 1 tooth down the bottom.

What Im doing is this bad should i be trying to push her eating solid food and not pureed food. alot of people i know who have kids all eat whole foods no problem at all.

If anyone has any ideas on something else i can try or diiferent food ideas for me to prepare and maybe she will like something i make instead.

thanks

I Hate Breast Feeding

MJ333 — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:45:45 GMT

I just wanted to say "I hate breast feeding!"

Do you wake a baby for a feed if they are due or do you let them sleep and wake when they are ready?

librarymum — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:29:38 GMT

If your baby is napping and is due for a feed do you let them sleep and wake for a bottle in their own time or due you wake them.

Rolling in her cot

LJMsmum — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:40:20 GMT

Hi all

My 5.5 month old daughter has discovered how to roll on to her tummy. The problem is she does it in her cot and then gets stuck (can't roll back). She cries in distress until we turn her on her back again. Last night she was doing this every two hours so we got very little sleep.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do?

Thanks

8 mths, need to move to cot and settle......HELP

v8freeek — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:57:59 GMT

Can anyone help me with my issue.
When I move him to the cot, he just has this different cry and really hard to settle him after.
I really need to have my bed back
I am desperate....

Dairy Allergy and Solids

Dettie — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:48:20 GMT

Hi,

My baby (5.5 mos) has just been tentatively diagnosed with dairy allergy. He has been on formula more or less since birth and was ok, except for lots of vomitting which we all thought was reflux. Anyway, when he started solids he also started getting eczema which was getting worse and worse. So long story short, we are cutting out dairy. He is on soy formula now (which he quite likes). The good news is, he has stopped vomitting and his skin is clearing up. He was having three meals a day, and at least one of these was yoghurt and fruit or vegies and ricotta. Now these are out. He loves his food. We are off to see the dietician in a week but in the meantime, was wondering, what foods others are giving their babies with the same thing??

Thanks

Dettie

Sterilising?

LJMsmum — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:49:14 GMT

Hi All

I'm new

I just wanted to know: How long do you need to keep sterilising bottles? I've been told when the baby is six months old but also when the baby is twelve months old???

Not sure which one it is?

Thanks