tigresacanela24
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Formula Help
Posted: 01-21-07 13:17pm
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I'm going to call the doctor tomorrow
morning but I have a little bit of an
issue. Chuy won't drink his formula and
hasn't since friday morning. Friday
morning before I left for work he had one
(10) ounce bottle of similac and hasn't
drank another since. Now he seems
perfectly healthy. No fever, very
cheerful, no crying. About 2-3 messy
diapers a day and about he's wetting
normally as well. He's eating. He
either has oatmeal, wheat cereal or eggs
and toast for breakfast. He eats a
fruit, a veggie and rice for lunch and he
usually eats what we eat mashed or cut up
for dinner. He's had apple, grape
and/or pear juice (half juice/half water,
the way the doctor told us to do) each day
but he will not drink any formula. I
give it to him and he spits it out. I
tried adding a little more water, nothing,
a little less water, nothing, a pinch of
sugar and still nothing. I even tried
switching to enfamil that my mom sent us.
He simply won't drink it. Any
suggestions? Anyone go through this?
Help, please!
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Kia
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Posted: 01-21-07 13:23pm
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Sounds like he is getting enough "other
fluids" and nutrients from food.
How old is he again? Maybe try giving him
a smaller bottle.
But from the sounds of it he knows juice
tastes better and he'd rather hold out for
that then drink the formula.
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AyaMiyaki
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Posted: 01-21-07 13:23pm
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How old is he now, .Kay? Do they go
through picky stages this young? 
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tigresacanela24
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Posted: 01-21-07 13:24pm
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| kia_breizzze
wrote: | sounds like he is getting
enough "other fluids" and nutrients from
food.
How old is he again? Maybe try giving
him a smaller bottle.
But from the sounds of it he knows juice
tastes better and he'd rather hold out for
that then drink the
formula. |
he'll be 8 mos on thursday... Gah, I
didn't think of the juice thing...
So you think cutting the juice will help?
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Kia
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Posted: 01-21-07 13:28pm
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I think he probably prefers he juice - I
mean anything tastes better than formula
lol
i think he is just getting plenty of
nutrients and stuff from his diet.
Try making his oatmeal or whatever with
formula (unless you already do)
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tigresacanela24
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Posted: 01-21-07 13:32pm
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Forgot about that... I do make his
oatmeal and wheat cereal with formula.
So he is getting a little... Gah, i'm
such a person sometimes... So upset that
I didn't even think of the juice...
Thankies, love!!!
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Nataliachick7
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Posted: 01-21-07 15:14pm
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Actually kia, babies need the majority of
the nutrients from formula for the first
year. Chuy is only what, 8 months?
Have you tried offering it from a sippy
cup instead of a bottle? Also, I agree
that maybe since you introduced juice and
all these other things, that he prefers
them over formula....But still, every baby
book I have ever read stated that most of
babies nutrition comes from formula for
the first year. Solids in infancy are
mostly for "oral practice".
I would talk to the doc!
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Kia
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Posted: 01-21-07 15:23pm
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| nataliachick7
wrote: | | actually kia, babies need
the majority of the nutrients from formula
for the first year. |
don't talk down to me, nat. I'm not a
clueless fool.
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Nataliachick7
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Posted: 01-21-07 16:34pm
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| kia_breizzze
wrote: | | nataliachick7
wrote: | | actually kia, babies need
the majority of the nutrients from formula
for the first year. |
don't talk down to me, nat. I'm not a
clueless fool. |
i was in no way talking down, sorry if I
made it sound like that.
I said "actually kia" because I was
responding to your specific post.
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Kia
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Posted: 01-21-07 16:35pm
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Ok. I couldn't work out your tone of
voice - we need a forum with voice
messaging 
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Posted: 01-21-07 16:53pm
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| kia_breizzze
wrote: | | ok. I couldn't work out
your tone of voice - we need a forum with
voice messaging |
that would be perfect. It's really hard
to tell when people are being b*tchy!!
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tigresacanela24
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Posted: 01-22-07 08:29am
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I hate freaking waiting for the doctor's
office to open...
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Posted: 01-22-07 08:48am
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If he is eating and drinking everything
else normally, I wouldn't worry about it
because he is either going through a phase
or he just doesn't like the taste any more
like .Kia said. Including the formula in
the cereal is enough, you don't need to
give it to him in the bottle too.
Be prepared because he will have a lot
more phases like this, one day he is going
to love something and the next day its the
last thing on earth he will
eat.......During this time I would advise
you not to buy anything in bulk.
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tigresacanela24
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tigresacanela24
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Posted: 01-22-07 09:54am
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Doctor said that I should try to make sure
that he gets at least 24 oz of formula a
day to make sure that he's getting all the
vitamins that he needs. They told me his
three meals a day + snack is fine and to
try giving him smaller amounts of formula
in his sippy cup more frequently. If
that doesn't work, instead of fighting
with him to make him drink it, they will
prescribe vitamin drops for him to make
sure his nutritional requirements are met
while he's on solids. They said that
they have a few babies there that start on
solids and no longer want to continue on
formula and some of them are very stubborn
about it! 
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Posted: 01-22-07 09:58am
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Oh boy, I have this stuff to look forward
too lol!
.Michelle
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Posted: 01-22-07 10:02am
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When .Tre was around that age maybe
younger (can't remember) we started him on
poly-vi-sol, its an infant vitamin made by
enfamil. Because he became so finicky
with his food we wanted to ensure that he
was getting all of his viatmins.
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Posted: 01-22-07 10:05am
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| foxy
wrote: |
be prepared because he will have a lot
more phases like this, one day he is going
to love something and the next day its the
last thing on earth he will
eat.......During this time I would advise
you not to buy anything in
bulk. |
that drives me nuts-lol like yesterday I
made some of his "favorite" stuff.
Salmon, yellow beans, and mashed potatos.
And he only ate the salmon, kept spiting
out everything else and saying "caca".
Lmao
here they reccomend swtching to homo
(whole) milk at 9 months, and chuy is
almost there, so I wouldn't be too too
worried. I give trey vitamins, they have
them in liquid form. You can just go and
buy them now if you're worried. He's
gonna be fine, he;s the chuyster!!
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tigresacanela24
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Posted: 01-22-07 10:09am
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Lol blaze! I'm thinking about getting
the vitamin drops just so i've got them on
hand for days like this...
Trey screaming "caca" is too funny! I
can just imagine...
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Posted: 01-22-07 10:14am
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| tigresacanela24
wrote: | lol blaze! I'm thinking
about getting the vitamin drops just so
i've got them on hand for days like
this...
Trey screaming "caca" is too funny! I
can just imagine... |
i have a youtube of it from a couple of
weeks ago cause he was on the phone with
mich and she told him I was feeding him
caca. Now he loves saying it! Lmao
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