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How To Bottle-Feed A Baby

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Feeding times provide a wonderful opportunity to enhance the special bond you have with your baby. Learn how to make feeding times an enjoyable and satisfying experience for your baby. 

Steps to bottle-feed your baby

Many bottle feeding problems are directly related to how a baby is fed. What can appear like unimportant minor details can actually have a major impact on your baby's comfort and enjoyment during feeding 

Before you start, always test the temperature of the milk (bottled breast milk or formula) before giving it to your baby. You can do this by shaking a little of the milk on to the inner side of your wrist to make sure it's just warm and not hot.

Sit comfortably with your baby close to you. Hold your baby so that he lies in a semi reclining position (not completely flat). Make sure his head is not tilted too far back or too far forward. Imagine how comfortable you would feel drinking with your head and neck in the same position. 

To encourage your baby to open his mouth, touch his lips with the nipple. Make sure the nipple is placed over his tongue and not under. Young babies have a tendency to lift their tongues when they cry. If the nipple is accidentally placed under his tongue, you will find he will experience difficulty swallowing and the milk will leak out of his mouth.

Allow him to take in as much of the nipple into his mouth as he feels comfortable with. Don't hold the bottle back, as it will be difficult for him to feed if only the tip is in his mouth.

Hold the bottle so that the nipple and neck of the bottle contains milk. Support the bottle at a right angle to his face, so that the nipple points towards the back of his mouth. If the bottle is held too low, the nipple will press against the roof of his mouth. If the bottle is held too high, the nipple will press down on his tongue. Holding the bottle too high or too low can make it difficult for him to maintain suction on the nipple.

Make sure that air bubbles are flowing into the bottle while he's feeding, to replace the milk he drinks. If you can't see any air bubbles, while he's feeding slowly loosen the nipple ring (the part that attaches the nipple to the bottle) until you can see bubbles. Take care not to loosen it too much, as this will cause the milk to leak all over him. (See common bottle feeding problems for more about this).

Allow time, once or twice during the feed, for your baby to stop and bring up a 'burp'. But don't keep trying to burp him if he becomes upset, some babies like to drink the whole bottle at once.

Let your baby decide when he's finished. The amount he drinks may vary from feed to feed. The feed should not be too fast or too slow. See How long should feeding last?

SAFETY!  Never prop-feed your baby (where the bottle is supported by something rather than someone) because of the risk of choking.  By the time a child is old enough to insist on feeding himself, he's most likely at an age where he could manage a feeding cup.

Written by Rowena Bennett 

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    Bottle feeding | Canpolbabies.com

    Find out how to bottle feed your baby safely, how to help your baby feel safe while feeding, and how to set feeding times based on your baby's needs.

    The most important thing is to choose the right position when feeding

    When bottle feeding, avoid lying down as the milk flows out of the bottle under the force of gravity (at a constant rate controlled by alternating pressure on the nipple).

    An infant may choke on milk if fed in a horizontal position. Therefore, it is very important to choose the right - more upright - position for feeding (the baby's head should always be slightly higher than the rest of the body).

    Your baby's head should be in the crook of your arm, in line with his spine. The bottle feeding position should resemble the natural feeding position - especially when you feed him with two different feeding methods.

    Remember:

    • Never leave your baby alone with a bottle as they may choke
    • Never let your baby sleep with a bottle in his mouth

    How to give your baby a bottle

    Put the bottle in your baby's mouth so that it forms a right angle with his face. Your baby should not encircle the entire nipple with his lips, but only its oblong part, while the lips should rest against the rounded part. The oblong part should always be full of milk. Otherwise, the baby will swallow a lot of air during feeding, which can cause colic. Air bubbles in the bottle mean your baby is suckling properly.

    Emotional connection

    Young children need parental love and affection. Your closeness helps him feel safe. Therefore, it is very important to talk affectionately with the baby as often as possible, hug and stroke him. Feeding is the best time to build an emotional relationship with your baby.

    This is very easy to do when you are breastfeeding because you are already in physical contact with each other. However, bottle feeding also allows you to be closer to your baby as he feels the warmth of your body. Bottle feeding also allows other family members - the father, brothers and sisters to get closer to the child, since not only the mother can feed the baby in this way.

    Calm emotional background

    Never feed your baby when you are irritated or tense. Take time for yourself first, take a deep breath and try to relax. When you have calmed down, sit in a comfortable chair, place a pillow under your arm, place your baby on the pillow, and start feeding while speaking gently to your baby. Your child feels your emotions. If you are tense, he will also feel restless. Also, never feed your baby when he is excited, crying or screaming. When he is in this state, his airways are not protected and food can enter his larynx instead of his esophagus.

    Feeding by the hour

    Formula milk is not as easily digested by the baby's stomach as breast milk, so according to generally accepted rules, it should be given every 3 hours.

    Some pediatricians say it's best to give your baby formula on demand, that is, when the baby is hungry. In their opinion, it is better to feed the child than to wait another hour and keep him in suspense because he wants to eat. However, you still need to control the number of feedings and your baby's weight gain.

    During the first month of life, the baby should eat > 7-8 times a day, 90-100 ml for each feeding, in the second month of life: 6-7 times a day, 100-120 ml for each feeding. During the first six months, the baby should gain approximately 150-200 g per week.

    Feeding breaks

    When your baby suckles milk from a bottle, he also swallows air. Therefore, he may feel full even before he drinks half the bottle. When feeding a child, breaks should be taken every few minutes to allow the baby to take in air - after such a break, he should ask for food again. During feeding, hold the baby in an upright or semi-recumbent position for a while (sometimes even for several minutes) to give him the opportunity to release air accumulated during feeding from the digestive tract. Help the child by holding him on your shoulder, putting his hands on your back. Bend and spread his legs a little. You can also massage his back or pat him gently from the bottom up. Remember to protect your clothes with a diaper or towel. You can also help your baby burp out excess air when he is in your lap. The child should lie on his tummy, leaning on your hip, and his arms should hang freely on the other side. Its bottom should rest on your foot, slightly lower than the other foot.

    Remember:

    If you don't help your baby clear the air that has accumulated in his stomach, this can cause painful gas.

    How to help a baby with colic?

    Among the most common difficulties in infants, intestinal colic comes first. They usually appear at 3 weeks of age and last up to 3 months. Intestinal colic itself is physiological, and their presence in a child indicates that the child's body is adapting to new conditions of existence.

    When intestinal colic appears, parents worry - what to do? How to alleviate the suffering of a loved one? To understand, let's look at the causes of colic. There are many, but the most common are:

    • insufficient production of enzymes necessary for the digestion and assimilation of nutrition, which is associated with the imperfection of the gastrointestinal tract in a child;

    • violation of the diet of a nursing mother;

    • transfer from breastfeeding to a mixture and the wrong position of the child during feeding;

    • wrong choice of bottle for feeding (when feeding from a bottle).

    Symptoms of colic: abdominal pain, usually paroxysmal. The child is restless, cries, tightens his legs, refuses to continue eating.

    What to do, how to help the baby?

    As experienced parents say, the most important thing is to be patient.

    When breastfeeding, the mother should pay attention to her diet, to the position of the child during feeding. Often, this is enough to reduce the manifestation of colic.

    If a mother uses a bottle when feeding, what should be paid attention to so that colic does not bother, and is there a “magic” bottle?

    There are two main causes of colic in babies when bottle fed:

    • as you suck, a vacuum (negative pressure) forms in the bottle, the nipple sticks together, and food does not enter it. For this reason, the child is forced to release the nipple, while swallowing the air that enters the stomach;

    • in a regular bottle, air bubbles enter through the valve in the nipple, saturate the liquid, and enter the baby's stomach with food.

    In ordinary bottles, the problem of swallowing air during feeding is solved simply - there are holes in the nipple to prevent sticking. However, the problem - saturation of milk or mixture with air bubbles coming through these holes - still remains.

    Today bottle Dr . Brown ' s (Dr. Brown) is recommended by leading pediatric clinics, pediatricians and neonatologists as the most effective way to prevent colic in babies when bottle fed.

    The main "secret" is in the special design of the bottle Dr . Brown ’ s .

    Anti-colic system Dr . Brown ’ s is a clever design that consists of a specially shaped tube placed inside the bottle and connected to the nipple by a special funnel with a smart valve.

    How the system works Dr . Brown ’ s :

    1. Patented system Dr . Brown ’ s allows air to enter the bottle through the opening in the system without coming into contact with milk or formula (without bubbling food).

    2. Next, the air enters through the tube into the part of the bottle that is located above the breast milk or formula. The pressure inside the bottle equalizes and milk enters the nipple, but not by gravity, but forcing the baby to make an effort, as when feeding from the breast.


    Thanks to the unique patented bottle system Dr . Brown ’ s :