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Anyone have a S-L-O-W eater?

brideseabridesea
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DD is excrutiatingly slow at meal time.  It can take her 2 hours of stopping and starting to finish a bottle.  I am so frustrated-- I find myself getting angry at her because when she takes so long, that means I have NO time for myself and no time to be with DS.  She has always been kind of pokey about eating, but seemed to be improving a couple weeks ago, and now is back to being super slow.  Any ideas?
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Re: Anyone have a S-L-O-W eater?

  • lstaylor73lstaylor73
    Maybe she's ready for a faster nipple???  Can't hurt to try.
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  • brideseabridesea
    She sometimes chokes on the faster nipple.  :(  You can see why this is frustrating.
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  • togagirltogagirl
    My boys had a little trouble with the faster nipple at first too but once they got the hang of it, it was much faster!
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  • jd0614jd0614

    imagetogagirl:
    My boys had a little trouble with the faster nipple at first too but once they got the hang of it, it was much faster!

    Ditto.  It took about a day for them to adjust to the faster nipple, but once they did, I was much happier!!  :)

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  • mrsc_6504mrsc_6504
    We tried the faster nipple and it worked at first but then she slowed down again.  It would take over an hour!  Our pedi said to give her a 30 minute time limit because by that time she's taken all she really wants.  That might mean that she's hungry again sooner but eventually she'll learn that when offered a bottle she should drink up!  Of course my Natalie would seem like she was just playing with the bottle after 30 minutes so I didn't feel like I was taking it away from her when she wanted it still.  If she made a fuss I wouldn't take it away.  Anyway, the 30 minute limit seems to have worked for us.  Good luck!
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  • jlc071903jlc071903 member
    I have 2 VERY slow eaters...it takes an hour 85% of the time for them to eat their bottles...ocassionally we have  a 30 minute bottle and we feel like rockstars.  Our girls are IUGR babies and are still pretty small (9 pounds at 4 months...2 months adjusted, born at 2.5 pounds each)...our pedi USED to tell us to do the 1/2 hour time limit, but they weren't getting it AND Olivia didn't gain weight when we did that...so now we are on a 45 minute-60 minute time limit and no longer...they eat on level 2 nipples. It sucks...I feel your pain...btw my girls struggle with level 3's so we haven't moved to those. :(
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