EXAMPLES OF WEANING STAGES
Feedings
1 st week of weaning
3 rd week of weaning
1st
Breast or bottle feeding.
Breast or bottle feeding.
2nd
Half breast or bottle feeding. Try one or two teaspoons of puree or cereal, then give remainder of feeding.
Half breast [...]
WHEN TO WEAN
As your baby grows, she’ll need to drink more and more milk or formula to maintain this growth. But your baby’s stomach can only hold a certain amount of milk at each feeding; eventually, she will reach a point when she’s drinking to [...]
SPITTING UP
If your baby tends to bring food right back up – some babies never do – you may wonder if he’s keeping enough down. My youngest son was a child who had a tendency to spit up, and I worried that he wasn’t getting enough to eat. I simply [...]
BURPING
Burping releases any air that has been swallowed during feeding. It’s unlikely that gas causes your baby discomfort, and many babies are not noticeably happier or more contented for having been burped. Swallowing air is more common in bottlefed [...]
OVERFEEDING
Chubby babies can be cute, but fat cells, once produced, can’t be removed, and a fat baby may grow into a fat adult, with all the attendant dangers to health. Unfortunately, it is easy to overfeed a bottlefed baby. The reasons for this are [...]
REDUCING NIGHT FEEDINGS
At first your baby won’t be able to sleep for more than two or four hours at a time without waking with hunger. Once he reaches a weight about 11 pounds (5 kilograms), try to stretch the time between feedings until you are getting about six [...]
NIGHT FEEDINGS
Your baby will need feeding at least once during the night, and this break in your sleep on top of all the other things that you have to do to take care of him may make you extremely tired and tense. The problem isn’t so much the number of [...]