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[hellbennt]

wow!!!!!!!!!!! wowza!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m still breastfeeding here at 13 months- er um when am I supposed to loose weight? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

congratulations!!

[Anonymous]

Shelby, you look great! It’s weird though… as my breastfeeding experience has been opposite! I lost a TON of weight during the first 6 months.. I mean down to my HIGH SCHOOL weight! My dad came to visit and the first thing he said, was “yikes, you’re too skinny!” As Ben has gotten older, however, I have started to gradually put some of the weight back on. Now, I’m sure that’s mostly because I was able to stop the TED, but he is nursing more comfortably and better than ever before now..

That’s what happened with my daughter too, the older she got and the more solids she ate, the more weight I put back on.

[Anonymous]

Hi! Peyton is doing better with eating at daycare! Last Friday the ladies warmed the bottle in a little bottle warmer instead of just a pan of water. I guess it wasn’t warm enough before. Also, he seems to favor one of the ladies, which is fine and she said that she turned him toward her chest and put his head really close to her while she fed him, simulating breastfeeding positioning. He still needs coaxing to finish his bottles but he finishes them!

I am so glad. I’m also so glad that I won’t have to go experimenting with different bottles and nipples again, which can get expensive! Hopefully in time he’ll be a pro at the bottle!

Aby

[Anonymous]

I do somewhat watch what I’m eating. I could do so much better though.

About the breastfeeding you can always bf your next. I actually did not bf my first for long at all because I was told that his problems were due to me not producing enough for him. Of course, by time I figured out it was reflux he stopped nursing and took only the bottle. I am so glad I stuck with it with Justice. I really enjoy it.

I hope I lose more, but highly dought it. I would love to lose another 5 and then I could be at my college weight.

[Anonymous]

Thank you. It has tapered off. I really think it has to do with Justice breastfeeding and being mobile. A few other moms said that once their breastfeeding babies were mobile they lost weight like mad. Now I’m scared to stop. My plan has always been to bf him until he’s two anyway, but the weight loss is quite a perk.

[Anonymous]

My son had DGE and reflux. His pain was controlled by Prevacid, but DGE continued to be a problem until he outgrew it at 13 months.

As for feedings, he would have gone 5-6 hours without eating, but I used to feed him small portions more often. At 8 months he was eating 4-5 times per day but he only averaged 15-16 ounces of breast milk or formula a day, plus some oatmeal cereal and about two stage one jars of baby food. His weight gain was fine. I really think that babies with DGE absorbmore nutrients from their food than non DGE babies because the food takes so much longer to pass through, and that’s why they get by on much less than average babies.

I knew he had outgrown it because his stomach capacity began to increase dramatically and he began eating much larger portions at meal time. Also his chronic consitpation subsided.

[hellbennt]

so as not to waste your precious pumped milk, can you send more bottles w/ smaller amounts in them? that way what isn’t used can be used the next day?

I’ve always had great success with playtex drop-ins, but if he’s used to the bottles you’re using then I wouldn’t go switching…

it’s true that he perhaps is making up for what he misses at daycare by nursing more at home, I think it’s called cluster feeding when they nurse on & off over a period of time- usually it’s the evenings…but of course you want him to drink at daycare! I feel so badly for you guys!

here’s a ‘milk calculator’ where you can figure out how many ounces of expresed milk your baby should be getting http://www.kellymom.com/bf/pumping/milkcalc.html#calculator

I just clicked on the link (I had it saved as a link so I haven’t looked at it in quite some time) & there’s some really helpful info & explanations- look for ‘reverse cycling’ I think it’s called- sounds what your baby is doing

& maybe this is helpful?

I belong to a LOT of Yahoo groups- when you join one, click the option for ‘Daily Digest” this way you get the day’s posts right to your inbox of your email to read- if you want to post a question/response, then you go to the web address, log on & post there…

groups to join:

PumpMoms http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/PumpMoms/

breastfeeding and working mothers: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bfworkingmoms/

hellbennt2007-08-18 19:44:51

[hellbennt]

also: if you’re thinking about thickening breastmilk, it doesn’t work as there are enzymes in the breastmilk that will break the cereal down…

http://www.kellymom.com is an excellent resource for all things breastfeeding related

[Anonymous]

Hi Ladies! Well, Peyton started daycare on Monday. He has not been eating hardly anything at the daycare since he started. It has only been 4 days but it makes me worried, I would like to think that it’s only because he’s adjusting and he’ll get better.

Peyton is a really good eater and I have been exclusively breastfeeding him for 3 months. I did introduce the bottle 6 weeks before returning to work and he was able to take it although I didn’t use the bottle alot, just here and there. The most he’s taken at daycare had been 6 ounces in 7 hours and the least had been 2 oz. I am still pumping and putting breastmilk in the bottle. I have noticed that he has started to make up for it by nursing alot when he gets home. The ladies say that he’ll start eating and ounce or two then start fussing. I know it’s not his reflux because it has been under control lately. I am just worried, I would love any advice. RIght now he’s using the NUK orthodontic nipple and bottle. I’m sure he’ll be fine but you just hate to think your baby is not eating while your away at work, talk about a guilt trip Thanks in advance

Aby

Peyton 5/7/07

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t wake him to feed him. Your doc is giving you general recommendations on how much a baby should eat, but they really are all different. At 6 months of age Myles was thriving on a total of 15-16 ounces of breast milk or formula a day, plus about 1/2 cup of baby oatmeal cereal, and mabye two jars of baby food. That’s it! And his growth continued to be normal. Some babies just don’t need as much as others.

From what I can remember with my girls at that age I used to feed them their solids after their bottle. So they’d wake up and have a morning bottle of about 5 ounces. Then about an hour later I’d feed them some baby cereal and fruit. Not much. Probaby 1/4 cup of cereal and 1/2 of a stage one jar of food. They’d have another bottle (5 ounces) around 11 am and then a jar of veggies 1/2 hour to an hour later. Another bottle around 3 pm (5 ounces) and baby cereal with veggies for supper (around 5 pm). They’d have one last bottle before bed around 7:30 and usually took about 6-7 ounces for that one. So they averaged 22 ounces of breast milk/formula, 1/2 cup of cereal, and 2-3 jars of baby food for the entire day.

I used to babysit a little boy who at six months of age would suck down an entire 8 ounce bottle of formula and then follow it up with an adult sized bowl of oatmeal and an entire stage 2 jar of baby food. He ate like a horse and he was never bigger than the 25th percentile for weight. His father was super skinny and ate like a horse too. He was the first baby I ever babysat so when I moved on to other families I thought their kids ate like birds!

[Anonymous]

ADISMOM,

I’m sorry that you’re having a hard time with your daughter. It might help if you could tell us a bit more about her story and history, and also how old she is and what tests/meds she’s been through. It just helps for a frame of reference so we can answer your questions better.

I’ll do my best answering your questions-

1) Yes, my dd has been through a lot of feeding therapy. She stopped eating at 8 weeks old due to pain, and the only way I could get her to take anything in was through feeding her while asleep. Even that was really hard, and she would fight and refuse. She arched her back and screamed and would stiffen up and her eyes would roll back- all symptoms we found out here to be Sandifer’s (a pain response from reflux). The aversion started from breast, then to bottle, and then to solids, and eventually anything that had to go into her mouth. If we tried to feed her solids, she would choke and gag and vomit. Eventually she’d turn her head and cry and refuse and arch. Then she refused to go into the high chair at all. She was on a PPI at around 9 weeks old, but the only kind available to us in canada was a compound of prilosec and it never helped her- it wasn’t being made well and the dose was probably not high enough for her. She started doing better when prevacid finally came to canada and we got her on a good dose for her (30-42mg), but by that point she was already 10 months old, and her feeding aversion was ingrained.

2) We started feeding therapy at around 8 months old due to wait lists, etc. Before feeding therapy, we saw an infant psychiatrist and a feeding MD to have her evaluated. The infant psychiatrist was a waste of time. The feeding MD felt that her reflux needed to be better controlled before she would ever eat properly. As my daughter did not have a feeding tube, we did not qualify for inpatient or outpatient feeding therapy programs from the children’s hospital. We did receive feeding therapy 1-2 times weekly in our home by a trained speech pathologist. She evaluated where Hailey was at and then started a program that was suited to her. Hailey would suck her fingers and mouth her toys, but would not allow anyone else to put anything in her mouth, and would not allow food or anything related to feeding in her mouth. We used an approach that encouraged playing with food in a non-eating enviroment with the hopes that if she’ll touch it, then she might taste it, and if she tastes it, then eventually she might eat it. We also used a praise approach, in that she was highly praised for all accomplishments related to food- we started with praise for getting her to touch it, then eventually praise for letting us touch it to her mouth, then praise for her licking it, then tasting it, then biting it, then eating it. We also took her out of the kitchen environment and started feeding in a non-threatening environment. We worked on desensitizing her mouth with brushing using the 1-2-3 away technique. We also worked on different textures- starting with purees and dissolvable foods, to hard munchables, to soft pieces, etc. until she could self feed. We also worked on drinking skills from a sippy cup. She was in feeding therapy for about 10 months. During that time, she also received Occupational Therapy to address her sensory issues that had developed, which also interfered with feeding. We also were in physio to help develop her trunk muscles and other motor issues that could impact feeding. At the same time, our feeding therapist gave us “homework” to do with her at home when we weren’t seeing her (as did the other therapists). At 15 months, Hailey’s therapist recommended that we put her in daycare part-time or take her to group meal times as the next stage to progress her feeding and she discharged us. At that point, Hailey would still only sleep feed bottles, but she could drink from a cup, and she could self feed, and she didn’t gag or choke anymore, BUT her volume of intake and fussiness at the table have been ongoing issues.

I think the thing with feeding therapy is that it’s not a quick fix, but it’s critical. There are lots of different programs depending on where your child is at, and there are lots of different approaches.

I’m a big believer that the first step, though, is to make sure that the reflux is under control, and to make sure that their pain is under control. Otherwise the cause will prevent them from moving forward with therapy. If you give us more information, it might be easier to help you.

I’ll pm you more info.

[Anonymous]

Uggg…I rememer going through this with Myles. For some reason he gave up his bottle at 7 months (except his bedtime bottle). I had to spoon feed him his breast milk or formula. It was tedious and messy but that’s the only way he’d eat it.

Anyway, here’s a few tricks I used to get more milk into him. I’d make his morning oatmeal with lots of milk. At one point he was taking 8 ounces of milk with his oatmeal. It was really runny but he liked it. For all of his solids feedings I’d add 1/2 ounce of breast milk or formula. Since he ate 3-4 jars a day that would add another 1.5 – 2 ounces so that helped. And strangely he’d take breast milk or formula from a spoon even when he would not take it from a bottle, so once a day I spoon fed him 4 ounces.

I did try concentarting his formula a little bit but it made him very constipated. So, maybe it’s good thing that he won’t take the powdered Alimentum.

[Anonymous]

We also have a dairy/soy intolerant son.. so we give him rice milk mostly.. and a bit of goats milk (you might want to try goats milk as well.. it does have a slightly different protien make up then cows). She does not NEED dairy though.. so don’t feel pressured to give her dairy. She needs plenty of fat/protien/and calcium however. How does she do on with soy? Maybe soy milk/yogurt?

As for added fats…we add flax oil to his diet.. we add olive oil to EVERYTHING..we give him almond butter on toast (high in protien and fat)..and we put avocado (high in fat) on toast as well.

I would not give up breastfeeding.. I would add more fats to her diet..AND give her a multi-vitamin w/added calcium.

[Anonymous]

She is 7 weeks. She just started taking Prevacid and has been on Goodstart and breastmilk for 2 weeks. Still not sure if she is tolerating the formula well. She is very gassy and cries after every feeding. But I think that has to do with the reflux.

[Anonymous]

I’m sorry that you’re going through a hard time. Having a child with a feeding aversion, we’ve had to be very conscious of weight gain, so I know what that’s like.

I hate to comment on other people’s doctors, but I’d personally wonder about a doctor (and a GI of all things!!) who isn’t afraid to say that BF after age 1 is of no value…. maybe his name and address need to be “secretly” given to both the WHO and the LLL, so some reading material can mysteriously arrive at his office. I don’t knoww too much about breastfeeding beyond the infant stage, but maybe Laura can hook you up with some links or forums where they can offer you some suggestions about how often and increasing weight gain in BF toddlers.

My personal philosophy about weight gain after what we’ve been through, is that if the child is eating/drinking happily in that they come to the table happily, they eat a normal amount for them (no matter how big or how small), and that they’re not in pain when eating, then you probably don’t have to worry. I think that most babies and children will self-regulate and will eat as much as they have to reach their setpoint, no matter how low that is. The other side of that is that I do believe that children who are in pain or with feeding aversions might not be able to gain enough to reach their set points due to fear of eating or pain. What is your daughter’s eating like? How often does she nurse?

The other thing I’ve learned is that when you have to eliminate certain food groups from a child’s diet, even if they’re a decent eater, it can be hard to get them to gain weight. But MANY MANY kids with allergies and intolerances do it, so I don’t think that you should have to worry about malnutrition. Weight gain really slows around your daughter’s age, and we actually had a bit of a loss rather than a gain somewhere between the first and second year in Hailey’s case. She picked back up, but only gained a couple of pounds through an entire year, and all the doctors we saw (and it was A LOT) told us that it’s not a problem.

Given the severity of your daughter’s reflux by pH probe, I’m assuming that she had an endoscopy. If not, that might be something that you want to consider to make sure that you’re not dealing with EE. Also, given that her reflux still flares at age 2 with dairy, I wonder if an allergist might be of any value.

About dairy trials, maybe if you paste this thread under there to make sure the right people see it, maybe others will be able to help you. We were told by several GIs and feeding specialists that lactose intolerance is very rare in babies, and typically lactose intolerance presents itself with bloating, gas, and diarrhea vs. MSPI. That’s only what we were told (and I know that can often be wrong!).

I don’t really know what to suggest about the pediasure trial. Intuitively it sounds like a fine idea to me, but I don’t know that much about food trials. If you need some high calorie ideas to add into her diet, I’d suggest adding flax seed oil and non-dairy margarine (as long as she tolerates soy) to her food for calories. What does she like to eat? Does she drink anything from a cup? I know that some people use rice milk or almond milk, but it’s not so heavy on the calories. We do soy, and we’ve added fillers for calories, like duocal. Your dietician should be able to help you with that if you’re interested. Also, you can ask your dietician about the neocate splash juice boxes or resource juice boxes- they’re supplements, and the neocate ones are definitely free of most allergens. You can check out their website. You can also make high calorie smoothies with fruit, soy yogurt, flax seed oil, etc. I know a mom who used to also add chocolate syrup for calories (not that healthy, I know). Also, I would ask the dietician about adding a multivitamin to ensure that she gets all that she needs, since she’s over age two.

Good luck.