Please help, my 8 month old has developed a feeding aversion, failure to thrive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(Not OP) how would you re lactate?

In my country milk banks teach moms to eat oatmeal, drink lots of water, hand express while the baby is on their skin, share the bed, feed on demand and offer the complement through a SNS. Absolutely no bottles and no pacifiers. Very rarely babies need to go on formula.

I am grateful to live in the US.

What do you mean? Dedicated mothers are not something good? Usually the mothers who relactate are the mothers who can't afford formula. What's your solution? Lt the babies starve? Make formula with dirty water?
WTF is wrong with you?

Your awesome country doesn't even have milk banks supported by the government. Shut up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(Not OP) how would you re lactate?

In my country milk banks teach moms to eat oatmeal, drink lots of water, hand express while the baby is on their skin, share the bed, feed on demand and offer the complement through a SNS. Absolutely no bottles and no pacifiers. Very rarely babies need to go on formula.

I am grateful to live in the US.

What do you mean? Dedicated mothers are not something good? Usually the mothers who relactate are the mothers who can't afford formula. What's your solution? Lt the babies starve? Make formula with dirty water?
WTF is wrong with you?

Your awesome country doesn't even have milk banks supported by the government. Shut up.

They can't afford formula, and they don't have access to clean water, but they complement (using formula) through an SNS? How does that work? I'm asking sincerely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(Not OP) how would you re lactate?

In my country milk banks teach moms to eat oatmeal, drink lots of water, hand express while the baby is on their skin, share the bed, feed on demand and offer the complement through a SNS. Absolutely no bottles and no pacifiers. Very rarely babies need to go on formula.

I am grateful to live in the US.

What do you mean? Dedicated mothers are not something good? Usually the mothers who relactate are the mothers who can't afford formula. What's your solution? Lt the babies starve? Make formula with dirty water?
WTF is wrong with you?

Your awesome country doesn't even have milk banks supported by the government. Shut up.

They can't afford formula, and they don't have access to clean water, but they complement (using formula) through an SNS? How does that work? I'm asking sincerely.

They use milk from the bank or expressed milk

[Anonymous]

They supplement during relactatation with milk they've expressed?

Their country doesn't provide formula to poor people (which even the US does), and their country doesn't provide clean water to poor people (even the US does that), but they have access to a milk bank and to a SNS? (What kind of water do they wash the SNS in?)

What country is this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(Not OP) how would you re lactate?

In my country milk banks teach moms to eat oatmeal, drink lots of water, hand express while the baby is on their skin, share the bed, feed on demand and offer the complement through a SNS. Absolutely no bottles and no pacifiers. Very rarely babies need to go on formula.

Well, i did all that, and still had to supplement with formula. But thanks for blaming the mothers again. How refreshing.

[Anonymous]

Couple of other ideas: maybe a swallow study is in order? Dysphagia is a possibility. I never did a swallow study with my failure to thrive DD and regretted it. I still thickened her formula with Simply Thick and it did help so I think she may have had that issue. Simply Thick is no longer a recommended product but you may want to ask your gastro about alternatives. The other thing that helped us was to have someone else feed her. Sadly she associate us with the pain of feeding and did better with a very patient daycare provider. Broke my heart but it's what helped her turn the corner. Acquisition of solid food eating skills took a long time too, butt now she is a healthy 8 yr old with a great appetite. Seriously, I thought we would never get here so I totally know what you are going through. Hang in there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(Not OP) how would you re lactate?

In my country milk banks teach moms to eat oatmeal, drink lots of water, hand express while the baby is on their skin, share the bed, feed on demand and offer the complement through a SNS. Absolutely no bottles and no pacifiers. Very rarely babies need to go on formula.

Well, i did all that, and still had to supplement with formula. But thanks for blaming the mothers again. How refreshing.

This mom needs help. Please don't make this about you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(Not OP) how would you re lactate?

In my country milk banks teach moms to eat oatmeal, drink lots of water, hand express while the baby is on their skin, share the bed, feed on demand and offer the complement through a SNS. Absolutely no bottles and no pacifiers. Very rarely babies need to go on formula.

Well, i did all that, and still had to supplement with formula. But thanks for blaming the mothers again. How refreshing.

Get over it.

Maybe if you were born in poverty and lived in such situations you'd have a different mindset and your body would make more milk. Who knows?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They supplement during relactatation with milk they've expressed?

Their country doesn't provide formula to poor people (which even the US does), and their country doesn't provide clean water to poor people (even the US does that), but they have access to a milk bank and to a SNS? (What kind of water do they wash the SNS in?)

What country is this?

Why do you want to know?

They keep it in the fridge and boil at night. After boiling the water they'll use inext day. The issue with formula is not just dirty water but the lack of education. Relatives try to "help" and convince the mom to water down the formula, to add corn starch to it or rice/oatmeal flour to make it thicker, etc. They prefer to tell mom to stick to BM. Which we all know is the best option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(Not OP) how would you re lactate?

In my country milk banks teach moms to eat oatmeal, drink lots of water, hand express while the baby is on their skin, share the bed, feed on demand and offer the complement through a SNS. Absolutely no bottles and no pacifiers. Very rarely babies need to go on formula.

Well, i did all that, and still had to supplement with formula. But thanks for blaming the mothers again. How refreshing.

Get over it.

Maybe if you were born in poverty and lived in such situations you'd have a different mindset and your body would make more milk. Who knows?

Because being affluent and having a bad attitude make you not produce enough milk?

How very educational reading DCUM is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(Not OP) how would you re lactate?

In my country milk banks teach moms to eat oatmeal, drink lots of water, hand express while the baby is on their skin, share the bed, feed on demand and offer the complement through a SNS. Absolutely no bottles and no pacifiers. Very rarely babies need to go on formula.

Well, i did all that, and still had to supplement with formula. But thanks for blaming the mothers again. How refreshing.

Get over it.

Maybe if you were born in poverty and lived in such situations you'd have a different mindset and your body would make more milk. Who knows?

Wow, you are amazingly stupid. I am over it, thanks. Doesn't mean i can't point out that your prescription doesn't work for some.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(Not OP) how would you re lactate?

In my country milk banks teach moms to eat oatmeal, drink lots of water, hand express while the baby is on their skin, share the bed, feed on demand and offer the complement through a SNS. Absolutely no bottles and no pacifiers. Very rarely babies need to go on formula.

Well, i did all that, and still had to supplement with formula. But thanks for blaming the mothers again. How refreshing.

Get over it.

Maybe if you were born in poverty and lived in such situations you'd have a different mindset and your body would make more milk. Who knows?

Because being affluent and having a bad attitude make you not produce enough milk?

How very educational reading DCUM is.

Yep, she's an idiot. Also, she has no idea whether i (Pp) was born in poverty, or what my mindset as i breastfed was. I was as committed to breastfeeding as a person could be. Went to ridiculous lengths. But i just couldn't make enough milk for my baby. Genetic mismatch i guess, or just one of nature's variations. Some people's eyes/ears/hearts/lungs don't work perfectly, why is it so hard to understand that some people's breasts don't either. Telling them they just didn't try hard enough or have the right mind set is evil.

[Anonymous]

some tricks that worked for us with difficult eater (completely understand this is a very different case, but under the theory that you want to try every trick in the book) super ripe (so very sweet) mashed bananas (esp. if she does poop well)? applesauce? second the pudding rec, esp. if you make homemade, has a lot of eggs and you can cut the sugar way down. yogurt (of course all this assumes DC not dairy allergic)

Agree with the PPs about not actually feeding her. You and DH sit at the table and eat and one of you hold her on your lap, eat the foods, but keep them right in reach. hopefully she'll start reaching out and taking your food on her own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(Not OP) how would you re lactate?

In my country milk banks teach moms to eat oatmeal, drink lots of water, hand express while the baby is on their skin, share the bed, feed on demand and offer the complement through a SNS. Absolutely no bottles and no pacifiers. Very rarely babies need to go on formula.

Well, i did all that, and still had to supplement with formula. But thanks for blaming the mothers again. How refreshing.

This mom needs help. Please don't make this about you.

I'm not. I'm refuting the stupid pp who wants to make this into her breasfeeding agenda.

[Anonymous]

Just another thought to ask the ped about, could be off base, is celiac. Maybe not an issue if dc's diet is already gluten free, but i have a friend who had a horrible time with a failure to thrive baby/toddler until finally figuring out that it was celiac.