Bottle feeding snack feeders

Snack feeders want a little milk often. You can encourage better feeding habits by:

• Checking your baby's weight gain. Be sure that her milk intake is correct for her before you start to change her feeding schedule.
• Encourage a feed, play and sleep routine during the day to extend the period between feeds.
• Try to get your baby to take as much milk as possible in a 30 minute interval. Offer her the bottle a couple of times. If she's still not finished her bottle after this time, consider the feed finished and move on to other activities.
• When she wants to be fed again, try to extend the time between feeds by playing and distracting her.  You are aiming for 3-4 hours between each feed. It may take you a couple of days to get there, but with this length of break between feeds she will be hungry and take more from the bottle each time.

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This article was written by Ella Walsh for Kidspot. Sources include SA Government's Parenting and Child Health and Karitane.