One thing has me very on edge right now and its feeding Aiden. I didn't know that the hardest part with him would be getting him off of the feeding tube and on to a bottle, but it is. Last month he took a bottle like a champ and drank with no problems, he just couldn't swallow it well. Now he has passed to drink some from a bottle. He can have thicker liquids so I add a thickener to the breast milk and give it to him. if only I could get him to drink from the bottle! we decreased the amount of food he was getting by feeding tube in hopes to make him hungry and then maybe he would drink from a bottle.
Now change of subject Connor is much better we've changed his diet and has had no more problems we did read into it and one cause of it is a stressful life changing event.... hmmm wonder what that could be? Because of this I felt he needed some normalcy brought back in and for now on every few Sundays me and him are going to the park, just the two of us, just like what we did last year. Jus some Mommy and Connor time. We went today though not for to long it was a bit cooler out and started to hail about a half hour in but it was still nice to get out just the two of us while daddy stayed home and watched Aiden.
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Love the you and conner time - he's not the only one who needs some play time!
Very sorry about Aiden! I wish I could help.
Praying he gets better at this soon!
I'm not the right person to ask about bottles as I've never used one. But two thoughts - have you tried putting him to the breast or is that too much to ask him to do? The other is, have you tried changing the teats on the bottles? There are some which are more nipple-like than others. It may be a case of trying several different ones until you find one he likes. Maybe put some milk on the outside of the teat so he knows what's in there?
How old does he have to be before you can dump the bottles and go for a cup? My older son had boiled water in a baby cup at 4 months, I don't know if they can have cups younger than that?
In the olden days it used to be a spoon if baby wasn't feeding well (when I was a baby they used to give babies sugared water on a spoon "until the milk came in" before they knew the value of colostrum!!!)
Ask around the special needs forums to see what other people have done. Good Luck!!
I unfortunately cannot try breast feeding because the milk is to thin and he could still aspirate on it ( go into his lungs instead of his tummy), otherwise I would try that! I've tried three bottles with different nipples nothing is working! It all stems down to the tube and him having a negativity affiliation to his mouth :/.
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