Your Baby's Bottle-feeding Aversion

Chapter 1: Bottle-feeding aversion causes

What is a feeding aversion? • Signs • Causes • Being pressured • Bitter tasting formula or medications • Pain • Choking episodes • Medical trauma • Sensory processing disorder • Others

Chapter 2: Rule out sucking problems

Major sucking problems • Barriers to effective sucking • How to choose suitable equipment • How to resolve airflow problems • How to position baby for feeding

Chapter 3: Is pressure the cause?

How babies are pressured to feed • What happens when a baby is pressured • Why babies feed while sleeping • Why pressure is often overlooked as a cause of aversive feeding behavior

Chapter 4: Rule out medical problems

How to tell if pain is the cause • Physical problems that cause pain while feeding • Signs and symptoms • Treatments for conditions that cause feeding aversion • Misdiagnosis • The ‘Medical Maze’ and how to escape it

Chapter 5: Know your role

Mistake 1: Believing the parent must control how much baby eats • Parent’s responsibility when feeding a baby • Babies’ abilities to self-regulate dietary intake • How much support do babies need while feeding? • Underfeeding and overfeeding causes

Chapter 6: Understand baby’s milk needs

Mistake 2: Overestimating baby’s milk needs • How health professionals estimate a baby’s milk requirements • What influences a baby’s nutritional needs • Signs that a baby is well fed

Chapter 7: Clarify growth expectations

Mistake 3: Unrealistic growth expectations • Mistaken assumptions • Variations of normal growth • Growth plateau • Breast- versus formula-fed • Natural decline in growth • Catch-down growth • Constitutional growth delay • False alarms • Mistake 4: Assuming baby is not eating enough

Chapter 8: Babies at risk

Preterm babies • IUGR babies • Short stature babies • Large at birth babies • Babies who underfeed in early months • Babies who overfeed in early months • Genetically lean babies • Babies born to highly anxious parents • Others

Chapter 9: Five Steps to Success

1. Ensure baby is healthy • 2. Plan to succeed • 3. Motivate baby to feed • 4. Follow baby’s lead • 5. Support baby’s sleep

Chapter 10: Feeding management

Golden feeding rules • When to offer feeds • How to offer feeds • How many times to offer at each feed • How to respond to baby’s cues

Chapter 11: Feeding FAQs

How to handle different scenarios

Chapter 12: Support baby’s sleep

Why sleep is important • How much sleep do babies need? • How lack of sleep affects feeding • Why babies lack sleep • How to support baby’s sleep

Chapter 13: Monitor baby’s progress

How to keep track of baby’s progress • Record baby’s fluid intake and output • What to expect as baby’s feeding aversion resolves • Signs that baby is no longer averse to feeding

Chapter 14: It’s not working!

Reasons for lack of progress • Breaking the rules • Not following feeding recommendations • Physical and sensory problems • Where to find support

Chapter 15: Life after baby’s aversion

Reasons why the situation might not be as good as expected • What you can do to promote baby’s contentment

References

Index