Baby Not Drinking All of There Bottle at Night
When your baby squirms, appears uncomfortable during feed, fusses, cries or refuses a bottle, it can be challenge to figure out the cause. The timing and type of beliefs she exhibits provides vital clues. This article discusses potential reasons for troubled feeding beliefs.
Signs
Does your babe display troubled beliefs in relation to bottle-feeding, such as….
Refuses a bottle
Turning abroad from the bottle.
Refusing to close her oral fissure effectually the nipple.
Property nipple in the oral cavity only non sucking.
Taking merely a small amount and then refusing more.
Screaming when placed into a feeding position or at the sight of the bottle.
Milk pouring out of baby's rima oris.
Feeding also quickly.
Feeding too slowly.
Falling asleep before the feed is completed.
Coughing and spluttering when feeding.
Not consuming as much milk equally expected.
Wanting more than milk than expected.
Throwing up large amounts of milk.
Then there may be steps you can take to remedy the situation.
Behavioral reasons
'Behavioral' means baby's beliefs is in response to the circumstances rather than a physical crusade. Behavioral reasons are the nigh common of all reasons for infant feeding problems. There are numerous behavioral reasons for a infant to experience feeding problems and/or display problematic feeding behavior. Mutual reasons include:
1. Misinterpreting infant'south cues equally signs of hunger
Does babe at times refuse feeds?
Does she take just a petty and not want more?
Babies are in an oral stage of develop. Sucking is the primary mode babies soothe. They also learn by sucking and mouthing objects. Many babies have a potent want to suck for reasons that extend across hunger, such as tiredness, boredom, discomfort and soothing. There may be times when you mistake your baby's want to suck for these reasons as hunger.
Newborn babies accept an agile sucking reflex. This ways a newborn baby may accept a feed even when she'south not hungry, and she might guzzle down the bottle because she cannot choose to non suck when her sucking reflex is triggered. Once her sucking reflex has disappeared (unremarkably by iii months of historic period) she will willingly take only the corporeality she wants to take.
If you take mistakenly interpret her fussing or want to such as hunger and offer her a feed, she might take a trivial and pass up the residuum, or she refuse from the outset. If y'all try to brand her potable more than she wants, she volition understandably get upset and fuss, weep and pull back from the bottle.
WHAT TO Practise
See Hungry baby for more reasons why babies often appear
See Babe reflexes
2. Unrealistic expectations
Is baby not drinking every bit much as you expect?
Is she fussing if you effort to get her to finish?
In around one tertiary of consultations I accept had with parents regarding an infant feeding trouble, I found that parents were trying to brand their babe beverage more than he or she needed. In some cases, this was because of errors made their wellness professionals. They either failed to arrange calculations as babe matured or failed to consider baby every bit an individual. As a result, overestimated infant'southward milk requirements.
If you recall your baby is non drinking enough milk (chest milk or infant formula) you're naturally going to feel concerned. If your concern translates into trying to pressure her to drink more than she wants or needs (gently or otherwise), you lot're going to upset her. Then information technology is very of import for your peace of heed and your babe'southward enjoyment at feeding times that you accept realistic expectations near how much she needs.
WHAT TO DO
See How much milk does baby need for standard estimations for age and weight, and reason why a babe might take more or less than recommended.
Follow your baby's feeding cues. Don't try to make her take more when she indicates she has had enough.
3. Tiredness
Is your baby at times too tired to swallow effectively?
Does she often autumn comatose while feeding?
Sleeping and feeding are closely related when it comes to the needs of babies. Both are equally of import to a baby'south wellness, growth and evolution and feelings of wellbeing. Yous are no dubiousness aware that if your baby does not feed well she might not sleep well. But are you aware that the reverse is every bit true. If she's non getting enough sleep this has the potential to negatively touch on her feeding.
Physical fatigue tin can crusade baby to fuss during feeds or falling asleep before the feed is completed. If you take a hungry/tired baby on your easily, tiredness will usually win out.
WHAT TO Practice
Ensure infant gets enough sleep.
Feed her before she becomes too tired.
Aim to establish a flexible feeding and sleep routine to minimize the risk of feeding and slumber times clashing.
If your baby is often irritable and not sleeping enough, (meet Overtired babe for signs and symptoms) yous might find that resolving any underlying sleeping problem will cause feeding difficulties to spontaneously resolve once she receives acceptable slumber.
See our sleep department.
Download or lodge a paperback re-create of my infant sleep volume Your Sleepless Infant: The Rescue Guide. At that place you volition find comprehensive information on the reasons and solutions to various infant sleeping issues.
4. Distractibility
Is your baby likewise busy looking around or trying to play to want to feed?
Is it hard to continue her focused on feeding?
Babies over the age of four months can easily become distracted while feeding. They are oftentimes much more interested in the activities going on around them than they are in feeding.
WHAT TO Exercise
Feed your babe in a placidity environment away from dissonance and distractions of other children.
5. Feeding management
Some feeding bug tin can exist related to what may appear like insignificant details simply which tin make feeding difficult or uncomfortable for a babe. For example, how you concord your baby will affect her power to feed from a bottle. If her head is too far forward or too far dorsum or her cervix is twisted this can make information technology difficult for her to suck or swallow.
WHAT TO Practice
See How to bottle-fed a baby
6. Feeding disfavor
Does your babe pass up to feed even when hungry?
Does she scream at the sight of a bottle or when placed into a feeding position?
Have you resorted to trying to feed her while asleep?
A baby can develop an aversion to feeding when by feeding experiences have taught her that feeding is unpleasant, stressful or painful. Typically, baby is diagnosed with reflux and/or milk protein allergy or intolerance to explain her aversive feeding behavior. However, a behavioral feeding aversion (related to feeding management rather than a physical cause) is a far more common cause of infant feeding aversion.
A feeding aversion is the most complex of all baby feeding problems. An constructive solution relies heavily on accurateidentification of the cause.
WHAT TO Do
See Feeding aversion for more information. Or buy or download a copy of 'Your Babe's Bottle-Feeding Aversion: Reasons and Solutions'.
7. Feeding equipment
Does your baby gag, coughing or splutter during feed?
Does she make clicking sounds while feeding?
Information technology could be the nipple is also long, likewise brusque, likewise fast or likewise slow.
The well-nigh important piece of feeding equipment is the nipple. The nipple needs to be the right size and speed for your infant's size, historic period and sucking ability. If the nipple is too long, too brusk, besides fast or also slow for your infant, she may experience feeding difficulties and express her frustration by fuss or crying.
WHAT TO Practice
Meet Feeding equipment for more than information on choosing a feeding nipple.
Experiment with nipples of different lengths, shapes and speed.
8. The nipple ring is screwed too tight
Does the nipple collapse in your baby's mouth as she feeds?
Practice you observe that air rushes into the bottle once the canteen is removed from her rima oris?
Its possible her feeding difficulties could be due to the nipple ring being screwed on too tight.
In order to maintain a neutral residue in air pressure within the canteen air needs to exist able to enter the bottle to replace the void left by the milk the baby is removing. If the canteen is vented, this is accomplished via the venting system. However, in the case of a non-vented bottle, the only ways air tin can enter the bottle are between the nipple band and the rim of the bottle and through the holes at the end of the nipple. While sucking, a baby will maintain a seal over the holes at the end of the nipple with her tongue and prevent air entry in this way. If the nipple ring is screwed downwardly tightly this besides prevents air entry.
If air is prevented from entering the bottle, this causes a negative pressure to build in the bottle. Equally the pressure level builds, infant demand to piece of work harder and harder to extract further milk, until such fourth dimension and the air pressure level is returned to normal. The endeavor required to suck against the negative pressure can cause a newborn infant to tire and fall asleep before completing the feed. An older baby may simply give upwardly or express her frustration.
WHAT TO Practise
The nipple collapsing (not all will) or stopping to burp baby allows air to enter through the holes and neutralize the pressure. But you don't want to await for this to resolve the problem. By then baby is already tiring or getting frustrated. See 'Collapsing nipple' for ways to manage this problem.
nine. Feeding patterns
Is your baby often take but small-scale amounts, refuse more than, but so wants to feed again an hour or ii later?
Some babies develop a grazing or snacking feeding pattern where they will simply drink pocket-size amounts of formula at a time and and then desire to exist feed frequently, possibly every hour or two. Although this will not cause any problems for a babe, provided she drinks enough formula in total over a 24 hour flow, it tin can go very tiring for parents to go on upward with her constant demands for feeding.
WHAT TO Practice
Try to encourage your baby to take as much milk every bit possible within 45 minutes. But don't try to brand her feed if she doesn't want to. Cease sooner if she does not want to go on.
Ensure baby gets plenty of sleep.
Avert allowing infant to fall asleep while feeding.
Back up your infant to extend the fourth dimension betwixt feeds, past offering a little water, a pacifier, a nap, playing with her, or taking her for a walk. Aim to encourage her to wait at least 3 hours from time you lot started her previous feed, but only if its reasonable to do and then without lamentable her. If necessary extend the time between feeds gradually. As your infant gets used to going longer periods between feeds she will gradually have larger amounts at each feed.
10. Excessive night feedings
Is baby feeding more than oft at night than you would expect?
Unless your baby was built-in prematurely or is very small for her age, developmentally she no longer requires feeding during the night beyond the age half dozen months. If nighttime feeding continues by this historic period its not going to damage her but it could have a negative effect on her appetite and feeding patterns during the twenty-four hour period.
Your baby only needs a sure number of calories in her day (24 hours) to provide for her growth and energy needs. If after the age of half-dozen months she continues to receive calories from nighttime feeds this will dampen her appetite during the day and she volition not demand to drinkable as much formula during daytime feeds. You might find she is content to become for long periods of time between feeds (which is usually what would happen at dark). She might fuss or refuse some of her daytime bottles when they are offered simply because she'south non hungry at the time. Or she might graze during the day.
Nighttime feeding will cause your baby no impairment, and then if you're happy to go on feeding her during the night there's no reason to alter a thing. Even so, it is important that you don't expect her to consume equally much milk during the 24-hour interval as she may have otherwise taken if she did not feed at night.
Many babies will give up dark time feedings on their own accord, but others volition continue to wake and need feeds overnight for months and possibly years while parents keep to provide feeds at night. Ordinarily the reason babies continues to demand night feeds beyond the age of vi months is considering they have learned to rely on feeding as a manner to fall asleep, or because their internal torso clock gets turned around - where the baby has decreased appetite during the twenty-four hour period because of the continued nighttime feeds and as a consequence of pocket-sized feeds during the day the infant wakes hungry during the night. Body clock problems can easily become a cyclical pattern that will continue over the long term unless parents take steps to change the situation. Healthy, thriving babies who continue to demand feedings at night beyond the age of vi months often require guidance and back up from parents to stop feeding at night and turn their body clock around to a normal day-nighttime feeding pattern.
WHAT TO DO
Aim to cease overnight feeds after vi months of age. All the same, before attempting to practise this its important to address any feeding to slumber issues your babe might have. She would need to learn to fall asleep in a dissimilar way before you will be able to successfully encourage her to terminate night feeds.
xi. Starting solids early
Take you started giving your infant solids before the historic period of 4 months?
vi months is the recommended age for starting solid foods. Although a modest number of babies may do good from solids prior to this age, it's generally not recommended to start a babe on solid foods before the age of four months. An early outset on solids has the potential to cause bottle feeding problems because solid foods may subtract the baby'south appetite for milk (breast milk or formula).
WHAT TO Do
If your infant is less than 6 months former, either cease or reduce the corporeality of solids you offer to run across if this helps to improve the situation.
See our article on starting solids.
12. Solids eaten earlier or between formula feeds
Do you give infant solids between or before bottle feeds?
If solids are offered prior to bottle feeds, either directly before or mid way betwixt feeds, when it'southward fourth dimension for your baby's bottle feed she might be feeling full from the solids, in which instance she'southward probably not going to take much milk from her bottle.
WHAT TO Do
For babies 4 - 9 months (when milk is still the most important nutrient) offer solids 15 - twenty minutes after bottle feeds.
For babies nine - 12 months (when solids are becoming increasingly more than important to a baby'due south diet) offering solids shortly before or shortly after her bottle, whichever yous find works best. Babies at this age are ofttimes downwards to 3 bottles per 24-hour interval plus 3 master meals and 1 or 2 snacks.
13. Besides much solids
Does your baby beloved solids so much that she would rather eat solids than drink milk?
In these early stages of learning to eat solids (4 - vii months) solids are non needed to add value to a infant's nutritional intake, rather they are offered primarily to provide learning experiences. The baby is exposed to new nutrient proteins that help prime her allowed system. She gets to notice new tastes and textures and become accepted to eating from a spoon. It is at this historic period that babies are almost willing to accept new tastes. So diverseness rather than quantity is what solids are about.
Many babies, particularly very young babies, experience difficulty self-regulating their dietary intake. Some babies volition continue to eat solid foods for as long their parents keep offer. Some babies will adopt eating solids compared to drinking formula. Nevertheless, too much solids and not enough milk is not a remainder diet for a baby. Information technology may be necessary for parents to limit the amount of solids they offering in order to encourage their baby to take a greater appetite for milk feeds.
WHAT TO Do
Encounter our article on estimating how much milk your baby needs to brand sure she'due south getting enough.
14. Weaning difficulties
Does your breastfed infant refusing bottle-feeds?
While some breastfed babies willing accept milk from a bottle many will not, at least non straight away.
Difficulty weaning from breast to canteen is rarely resolved past finding the 'right' feeding nipple. (All feeding nipples volition feel equally strange to a breastfed baby.) Nor does a solution prevarication in finding a formula with the 'right' taste. All formula will taste strange to a breastfed babe). The difficulty associated with weaning to a canteen near often lies in the fact that bottle-feeding requires a very different sucking action to breastfeeding. While breastfeeding the movement of your baby's tongue milks the chest, where as bottle-feeding requires a sucking action. A baby who has been exclusively breastfed beyond the age of 3 months volition ofttimes reject milk from a bottle considering it "doesn't experience right" and she doesn't know how to suck from a canteen.
It takes time and practice earlier a breastfed baby learns how to suck on a bottle.
WHAT TO Do
Endeavour offering expressed breast milk in a bottle initially. (Don't be too optimistic and put too much in to start with. It would be a shame to waste information technology.)
A soft flexible nipple frequently works better.
Annotation: Many breast fed babies will refuse to accept a bottle while they are nonetheless existence breastfed at times. They volition just expect until a breastfeed is offered. For these babies it will be the case of breastfeeding or bottle-feeding, just not both.
How nosotros can assistance
- Your Babe's Bottle-feeding Aversion book
- Infant Intendance Adviceconsultation
- Rowena Bennett'due southOnline Canteen-Feeding Aversion Program
'Your Baby'southward Bottle-Feeding Aversion' book
In my book, 'Your baby's Bottle-feeding Aversion', I take described physical and behavioral reasons for babies to develop an aversion to bottle-feeding. How to identify the cause and the solutions to lucifer. Included are stride-by-stride instructions on how to regain your baby'south trust and resolve a feeding disfavor acquired or reinforced by repeated pressure to feed.
While the book was written for bottle-fed babies, many nursing mothers accept plant that applying the same strategies has as well helped them to successfully resolve a breastfeeding aversion.
You lot might detect that reading this volume is all you demand to practice to sympathise the steps you lot need to have to resolve your baby'southward feeding disfavor and get him dorsum to the point of enjoying eating until satisfied.
Infant Care Communication Consultations
If you would like an individualized assessment of all reasons for infant feeding bug, not just feeding aversion, we also provide a consultation service. Baby Care Advice consultants have extensive experience in pinpointing the cause of feeding disfavor and other behavioral feeding problems such every bit those related to equipment and the parent's feeding practices. (Formoreon what's included in a consultation).
By Rowena Bennett, RN, RM, CHN, MHN, IBCLC.
Copyright www.babycareadvice.com 2021. All rights reserved. Permission from the writer must be obtained to reproduce all or any part of this article.
Rowena'southward Online Bottle-Feeding Aversion Programme
Six time-saving modules to aid your family unit enjoy feeding once more with Rowena's step-by-step plan. Enjoy additional tools to manage feet, troubleshoot any issues, introduce new carers, how to manage illness/teething and much more.
- Module ane: Understanding feeding aversions
- Module ii: Place the cause
- Module 3: Prepare for success
- Module 4: How to resolve your babe's bottle-feeding aversion
- Module 5: What to expect
- Module 6: Troubleshooting
- BONUS: Guided meditations
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