After nearly three weeks of drought, Lucas finally finished a bottle of milk again! He only finished 4 oz. of milk as opposed to his usual 7 oz., but this was definitely better than nothing.
Nearly three weeks ago, Lucas just suddenly stopped drinking milk. For about two days, he started by not finishing his 7 oz-bottle. He would only take half. On the third day, he completely rejected milk.
We couldn't figure out why. We thought he got tired of the taste and I heard this is pretty common for babies his age, but could be easily resolved by changing the brand of his formula. So we tried two other brands of formula, but that didn't work. We thought maybe he got tired of his bottle, so we introduced a sippy cup--that didn't work either. Then we thought maybe he's teething (he's got two right now but there should be more coming out), and the sucking gives him discomfort. But then he sucks his binky alright, and in fact, he can't sleep without it. We are running out of diagnosis and still don't know what his problem is, so we just kept trying and wasted a lot of milk in the process.
He is now only sustained by solids--at least he still eats. But he has really gotten skinny and often gets constipated due to his lack of liquid intake.
Last night, I tried again and gave him a 4 oz-bottle of milk. We've scaled down from 7 oz. to 4 oz. since this happened to minimize the waste. And walah! He drank and finished the whole thing! This morning, his nanny gave him another 4 oz-bottle and he finished it again. I hope he gets back his appetite for milk. It worries me that he doesn't have enough liquid in his body and he is missing all the nutrients that the formula offers. Then again, we can only keep trying.
this is the stage that they start letting go of their milk liz... sign ni siya na ready na jud siya sa solid. increase mo na lang fiber to avoid constipation or after giving him solid, water.
ReplyDeleteka-suwerte man nimo liz naay nanny... we are still in search for one. naa mi back up pero dad-on man sa balay nila. i was wanting someone who will just come in the house, especially during times nga kinahanglan ko matulog from duty {just that period of time}. i feel guiltly gyud ibilin ang mga bata, unya sige siyagit tawag sa ako-ang pangalan.
Cinds, we got really lucky we found a nanny who we can trust. She's really great! She lives with us and goes home during the weekend. I actually thought of sending Lucas to daycare, pero maluoy man ko pukawon cya ug sayo 'coz we have to drop him off before we go to work.
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