Feeding Your Baby

Mothering Your Unborn Baby

Feeding the newborn baby.

SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS ‘969 essential to give also a complete vitamin supplement and supplements of the elements which are deficient in galactomin if it is to be used for more than a few weeks. Although disaccharide intolerance causes severe diarrhoea it may not last long and cow’s milk feeds can be cautiously resumed. The control of infection in the bowel is often difficult because the causal o...

Helping your baby with torticollis.

Torticollis is another name for “twisted neck.” It sounds like “tōr’ti-kol’is” when you say it out loud. Sometimes babies are born with their necks twisted more to one side than the other. Other times this can happen after birth. In either case, the neck muscle on one side is tighter or shorter than usual. (It is not a bone problem. Your baby’s bones are normal.) We don’t really know for sure w...

Soothing your breastfed baby with reflux.

How do you know if your baby has reflux? Spitting up is the most common sign. It happens a lot. Baby may spit up one or more times at each feeding. Baby may stop in the middle of a feeding, spit up, and then go back to breastfeeding. Or, baby may spit up when put down for a diaper change or to sleep. You might not see the spit-up until you pick the baby up again. The spit-up is usually small, j...

Choosing where to have your baby.