Why Is My Baby Crying While Bottle Feeding

When your baby squirms, appears uncomfortable during feed, fusses, cries or refuses a canteen, information technology can be claiming to figure out the crusade. The timing and type of beliefs she exhibits provides vital clues. This article discusses potential reasons for troubled feeding behavior.

Signs

Does your baby brandish troubled behavior in relation to bottle-feeding, such every bit….

 Refuses a bottle

 Turning away from the bottle.

Refusing to close her mouth around the nipple.

Holding nipple in the mouth but non sucking.

Taking only a minor amount then refusing more than.

Screaming when placed into a feeding position or at the sight of the bottle.

Milk pouring out of babe'due south mouth.

Feeding also rapidly.

Feeding too slowly.

Falling comatose before the feed is completed.

Coughing and spluttering when feeding.

Not consuming as much milk as expected.

Wanting more than milk than expected.

Throwing up large amounts of milk.

Then there may be steps you tin can accept to remedy the situation.

Behavioral reasons

'Behavioral' means infant's behavior is in response to the circumstances rather than a physical cause. Behavioral reasons are the most mutual of all reasons for infant feeding problems. At that place are numerous behavioral reasons for a babe to experience feeding issues and/or display problematic feeding behavior. Mutual reasons include:

1.  Misinterpreting baby's cues as signs of hunger

Does baby at times refuse feeds?

Does she have but a little and not want more?

Babies are in an oral phase of develop. Sucking is the principal way babies soothe. They also learn by sucking and mouthing objects. Many babies take a potent want to suck for reasons that extend beyond hunger, such every bit tiredness, boredom, discomfort and soothing.  In that location may be times when you mistake your infant'due south desire to suck for these reasons every bit hunger.

Newborn babies accept an active sucking reflex. This means a newborn baby may accept a feed even when she's not hungry, and she might guzzle down the bottle considering she cannot choose to not suck when her sucking reflex is triggered. One time her sucking reflex has disappeared (usually by iii months of historic period) she will willingly take only the corporeality she wants to have.

If you take mistakenly interpret her fussing or desire to such every bit hunger and offer her a feed, she might take a piddling and decline the residuum, or she refuse from the commencement. If y'all try to make her drink more than than she wants, she will understandably go upset and fuss, cry and pull back from the canteen.

WHAT TO DO

 Run across Hungry baby for more reasons why babies often announced

 See Infant reflexes

2.  Unrealistic expectations

Is baby not drinking as much as you look?

Is she fussing if you lot try to go her to terminate?

In around one third of consultations I have had with parents regarding an baby feeding problem, I institute that parents were trying to brand their babe drinkable more than he or she needed. In some cases, this was because of errors fabricated their health professionals. They either failed to conform calculations as babe matured or failed to consider babe as an individual.  Equally a result, overestimated infant's milk requirements.

If you recall your infant is not drinking enough milk (breast milk or babe formula) you lot're naturally going to feel concerned. If your concern translates into trying to force per unit area her to drink more than than she wants or needs (gently or otherwise), y'all're going to upset her. And so it is very important for your peace of heed and your babe's enjoyment at feeding times that you accept realistic expectations about how much she needs.

WHAT TO Practice

 Run into How much milk does baby need for standard estimations for age and weight, and reason why a babe might take more than or less than recommended.

 Follow your baby'south feeding cues. Don't endeavor 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 fall comatose while feeding?

Sleeping and feeding are closely related when it comes to the needs of babies. Both are equally of import to a infant's health, growth and development and feelings of wellbeing. You lot are no doubt aware that if your infant does non feed well she might non sleep well. But are you lot aware that the opposite is equally truthful. If she's not getting enough sleep this has the potential to negatively impact on her feeding.

Concrete fatigue can cause baby to fuss during feeds or falling asleep before the feed is completed. If you have a hungry/tired baby on your hands, tiredness will ordinarily win out.

WHAT TO Exercise

 Ensure baby gets enough sleep.

 Feed her earlier she becomes too tired.

 Aim to establish a flexible feeding and slumber routine to minimize the risk of feeding and sleep times clashing.

If your baby is ofttimes irritable and not sleeping enough, (run across Overtired baby for signs and symptoms) you might discover that resolving whatever underlying sleeping problem volition cause feeding difficulties to spontaneously resolve once she receives adequate sleep.

 Run into our slumber department.

 Download or gild a paperback copy of my infant sleep book Your Sleepless Baby: The Rescue Guide. There you will find comprehensive information on the reasons and solutions to various infant sleeping problems.

iv.  Distractibility

Is your baby besides busy looking around or trying to play to want to feed?

Is information technology difficult to keep her focused on feeding?

Babies over the historic period of iv months can easily become distracted while feeding. They are often much more interested in the activities going on around them than they are in feeding.

WHAT TO DO

Feed your baby in a tranquillity environment away from racket and distractions of other children.

5.  Feeding direction

Some feeding issues can be related to what may appear like insignificant details merely which can brand feeding difficult or uncomfortable for a baby. For example, how you hold your baby volition bear upon her ability to feed from a canteen. If her caput is besides far forward or too far back or her neck is twisted this can make it difficult for her to suck or swallow.

WHAT TO DO

See How to bottle-fed a babe

6.  Feeding aversion

Does your baby pass up to feed even when hungry?

Does she scream at the sight of a bottle or when placed into a feeding position?

Have yous resorted to trying to feed her while comatose?

A baby tin develop an disfavor to feeding when past feeding experiences take 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.  Withal, a behavioral feeding aversion (related to feeding management rather than a physical cause) is a far more than mutual cause of infant feeding aversion.

A feeding aversion is the most complex of all infant feeding problems. An effective solution relies heavily on accurateidentification of the cause.

WHAT TO DO

See Feeding aversion for more information. Or purchase or download a re-create of 'Your Infant's Canteen-Feeding Disfavor: Reasons and Solutions'.

7.  Feeding equipment

Does your babe gag, cough or splutter during feed?

Does she make clicking sounds while feeding?

It could be the nipple is too long, too brusque, too fast or too slow.

The well-nigh important piece of feeding equipment is the nipple. The nipple needs to be the right size and speed for your babe'due south size, age and sucking power. If the nipple is as well long, too short, as well fast or also tiresome for your baby, she may experience feeding difficulties and express her frustration by fuss or crying.

WHAT TO DO

 Come across Feeding equipment for more information on choosing a feeding nipple.

 Experiment with nipples of different lengths, shapes and speed.

8.  The nipple ring is screwed also tight

Does the nipple collapse in your baby's mouth as she feeds?

Practice y'all find that air rushes into the bottle once the bottle is removed from her mouth?

Its possible her feeding difficulties could exist due to the nipple ring being screwed on also tight.

In order to maintain a neutral balance in air pressure within the bottle air needs to exist able to enter the bottle to replace the void left past the milk the baby is removing. If the bottle is vented, this is achieved via the venting system. However, in the case of a not-vented bottle, the only ways air can enter the canteen are between the nipple ring 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 foreclose air entry in this way. If the nipple ring is screwed downwards tightly this also prevents air entry.

If air is prevented from entering the bottle, this causes a negative pressure to build in the bottle. As the pressure level builds, babe demand to work harder and harder to extract farther milk, until such time and the air pressure is returned to normal. The attempt required to suck against the negative force per unit area can cause a newborn baby to tire and fall asleep before completing the feed. An older baby may just surrender or limited her frustration.

WHAT TO Practice

The nipple collapsing (not all volition) or stopping to burp baby allows air to enter through the holes and neutralize the force per unit area. But you don't want to expect for this to resolve the problem. Past then baby is already tiring or getting frustrated. See 'Collapsing nipple' for ways to manage this problem.

ix.  Feeding patterns

Is your baby often take only small amounts, turn down more, simply then wants to feed again an hour or two after?

Some babies develop a grazing or snacking feeding pattern where they will only drink small amounts of formula at a time and and so want to exist feed frequently, possibly every hour or 2. Although this will not crusade any problems for a baby, provided she drinks enough formula in total over a 24 hour flow, information technology can get very tiring for parents to keep up with her constant demands for feeding.

WHAT TO Do

 Try to encourage your baby to take as much milk as possible within 45 minutes. But don't try to brand her feed if she doesn't want to. Terminate sooner if she does not want to continue.

 Ensure baby gets plenty of slumber.

 Avoid assuasive baby to fall asleep while feeding.

 Support your baby to extend the fourth dimension between feeds, by offer a niggling h2o, a pacifier, a nap, playing with her, or taking her for a walk. Aim to encourage her to wait at least three hours from time you started her previous feed, but only if its reasonable to do so without sorry her. If necessary extend the time between feeds gradually. As your infant gets used to going longer periods between feeds she will gradually accept larger amounts at each feed.

10.  Excessive night feedings

Is baby feeding more than often at night than you would expect?

Unless your baby was born prematurely or is very small for her age, developmentally she no longer requires feeding during the nighttime beyond the age 6 months. If nighttime feeding continues past this age its non going to harm her just it could have a negative effect on her appetite and feeding patterns during the solar day.

Your baby only needs a certain number of calories in her day (24 hours) to provide for her growth and free energy needs. If after the age of 6 months she continues to receive calories from nighttime feeds this will dampen her appetite during the twenty-four hour period and she will non need to potable equally much formula during daytime feeds. Yous might observe she is content to go for long periods of time between feeds (which is usually what would happen at night). She might fuss or refuse some of her daytime bottles when they are offered simply because she's non hungry at the fourth dimension. Or she might graze during the 24-hour interval.

Nighttime feeding will cause your infant no impairment, and so if you're happy to continue feeding her during the night there'due south no reason to change a thing. However, it is important that you don't look her to swallow as much milk during the day every bit she may accept otherwise taken if she did not feed at night.

Many babies will give upwardly night time feedings on their own accord, merely others will continue to wake and demand feeds overnight for months and peradventure years while parents continue to provide feeds at night. Usually the reason babies continues to need nighttime feeds beyond the age of 6 months is because they have learned to rely on feeding as a way to fall asleep, or because their internal body clock gets turned effectually - where the infant has decreased appetite during the day because of the continued night feeds and equally a consequence of pocket-size feeds during the twenty-four hours the baby wakes hungry during the dark. Torso clock bug 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 across the age of 6 months often require guidance and support from parents to end feeding at night and plough their body clock around to a normal day-nighttime feeding pattern.

WHAT TO DO

Aim to cease overnight feeds after half dozen months of historic period. However, earlier attempting to do this its important to accost whatsoever feeding to sleep bug your infant might have. She would need to learn to fall asleep in a different way before you lot volition be able to successfully encourage her to cease night feeds.

11.  Starting solids early on

Have you started giving your baby solids before the age of 4 months?

6 months is the recommended age for starting solid foods. Although a small number of babies may benefit from solids prior to this age, information technology's mostly not recommended to start a babe on solid foods before the age of 4 months. An early on start on solids has the potential to cause bottle feeding bug because solid foods may decrease the baby's appetite for milk (breast milk or formula).

WHAT TO Exercise

 If your baby is less than six months old, either cease or reduce the amount of solids y'all offer to see if this helps to ameliorate the situation.

 Run across our article on starting solids.

12.  Solids eaten earlier or between formula feeds

Exercise y'all give baby solids betwixt or before bottle feeds?

If solids are offered prior to bottle feeds, either directly before or mid way betwixt feeds, when it's time for your baby'due south bottle feed she might be feeling full from the solids, in which case she's probably non going to take much milk from her canteen.

WHAT TO Practise

For babies 4 - 9 months (when milk is all the same the most important nutrient) offer solids 15 - 20 minutes subsequently bottle feeds.

 For babies 9 - 12 months (when solids are condign increasingly more important to a baby's diet) offering solids soon earlier or shortly later on her bottle, whichever you find works best. Babies at this age are often down to 3 bottles per day plus 3 principal meals and 1 or 2 snacks.

thirteen.  Too much solids

Does your baby dear solids and so much that she would rather eat solids than drink milk?

In these early stages of learning to eat solids (four - 7 months) solids are not needed to add value to a baby's nutritional intake, rather they are offered primarily to provide learning experiences. The baby is exposed to new food proteins that help prime her immune system. She gets to notice new tastes and textures and go accustomed to eating from a spoon. It is at this age that babies are well-nigh willing to accept new tastes. So variety rather than quantity is what solids are virtually.

Many babies, peculiarly very immature babies, experience difficulty self-regulating their dietary intake. Some babies will proceed to eat solid foods for as long their parents keep offer. Some babies will prefer eating solids compared to drinking formula. However, too much solids and not plenty milk is not a residue diet for a infant. Information technology may exist necessary for parents to limit the amount of solids they offer in order to encourage their baby to take a greater appetite for milk feeds.

WHAT TO Practice

See our article on estimating how much milk your infant needs to make sure she'south getting enough.

xiv.  Weaning difficulties

Does your breastfed babe refusing bottle-feeds?

While some breastfed babies willing accept milk from a bottle many volition non, at least not directly abroad.

Difficulty weaning from breast to bottle is rarely resolved by finding the 'correct' feeding nipple. (All feeding nipples will feel every bit strange to a breastfed infant.) Nor does a solution lie in finding a formula with the 'right' taste. All formula will taste strange to a breastfed infant). The difficulty associated with weaning to a bottle almost frequently lies in the fact that bottle-feeding requires a very different sucking action to breastfeeding. While breastfeeding the movement of your baby'south tongue milks the breast, where as bottle-feeding requires a sucking action. A baby who has been exclusively breastfed beyond the age of 3 months will often reject milk from a bottle considering information technology "doesn't experience right" and she doesn't know how to suck from a bottle.

It takes fourth dimension and practice before a breastfed baby learns how to suck on a bottle.

WHAT TO DO

 Try offering expressed breast milk in a bottle initially. (Don't exist besides optimistic and put besides much in to outset with. Information technology would exist a shame to waste information technology.)

A soft flexible nipple often works meliorate.

NOTE: Many breast fed babies will refuse to have a canteen while they are all the same existence breastfed at times. They volition simply wait until a breastfeed is offered.  For these babies it will exist the case of breastfeeding or bottle-feeding, simply not both.

How we can help

• Your Baby'southward Bottle-feeding Aversion book
• Baby Care Adviceconsultation
• Rowena Bennett'sOnline Canteen-Feeding Aversion Plan

'Your Babe's Bottle-Feeding Aversion' book

In my book, 'Your infant's Bottle-feeding Aversion', I take described concrete and behavioral reasons for babies to develop an aversion to bottle-feeding. How to identify the crusade and the solutions to match. Included are pace-by-step instructions on how to regain your baby's trust and resolve a feeding disfavor caused or reinforced past repeated force per unit area to feed.

While the book was written for bottle-fed babies, many nursing mothers take found that applying the same strategies has too helped them to successfully resolve a breastfeeding aversion.

You might observe that reading this volume is all you need to practice to understand the steps you need to have to resolve your baby's feeding aversion and become him back to the signal of enjoying eating until satisfied.

Babe Care Advice Consultations

If you would like an individualized assessment of all reasons for infant feeding issues, not just feeding aversion, we also provide a consultation service. Baby Care Advice consultants have extensive experience in pinpointing the cause of feeding aversion and other behavioral feeding problems such as those related to equipment and the parent's feeding practices. (Formoreon what'due south included in a consultation).

By Rowena Bennett, RN, RM, CHN, MHN, IBCLC.

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Rowena'south Online Bottle-Feeding Aversion Program

Six fourth dimension-saving modules to help your family savour feeding once again with Rowena'southward step-past-step plan. Bask additional tools to manage anxiety, troubleshoot any issues, introduce new carers, how to manage disease/teething and much more.

• Module 1: Understanding feeding aversions
• Module 2: Identify the crusade
• Module three: Prepare for success
• Module four: How to resolve your baby's canteen-feeding aversion
• Module 5: What to look
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