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nursing and solids

by Nanny Gortzak (Login ngortzak)
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Hallo Mandy,

Sometimes babies of this age have still difficulties figuring out how to digest solid foods. Their gut system may not be completely ready yet. Sometimes it is just one kind of solid food that messes up things.

What you could try to do is to go back to exclusive nuring for now. Simple latch on as much as you can, feed at both sides, switch breasts again if he does need more food. This is like the frequency days when babies are a few weeks old and serves to increase your milksupply. Also, leave out the fruit juices. After a few days of exclusive nursing his stools should return to normal breastfeeding stools. Once he has normal stools for a few days, you can slowly introduce solids again. Start with one food at the time, start with just a teaspoon the first day. Increase this amount over the week. If the stools stay fine, you can introduce something else in the same way. Than you can mix/combine the two foods that you introduced. Third week is for introducing something new. Forht week for mixing, or introducing something new, etc. Try to alternate the different foodgroups that you are introducing, so you can figure quickly what is the problem. Cut out this food for the next two months or so, but continue to introduce other foods after stooling is back to normal. When all works out fine, you can finally introduce the problem foods with small amounts first and gradually increasing the amount.

I hope this will work for you. If problems are persistent, even after slowly and carefully introducing solids, you may want to consult with your physician.

Nanny



Posted on Jun 18, 2004, 2:28 PM

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