Any1 put baby rice/porridge in bottle, If so how much ??

[holidaysan]

The way it thickens the milk makes it a high-risk choking hazard if baby were to be sick during sleeping.

Also it can clog the teat and encourage more air to be swallowed resulting in gas and/or tummy pain

What if when were weaning baby in sick in his/her sleep?

Or if using thicker milks such as SMA staydown?

 

[summer rain]

When weaning a baby would generally be older than the age when most parents are putting rice in the bottle so would be better equipped to move their head in such a way that they don't choke; also milks such as staydown and comfort are designed to mix evenly throughout the product and to not be a choking hazard if they are thrown up, they are also designed to be far less likely to be brought back up but adding baby rice to normal formula or breastmilk simply isn't comparable.

 

[thedog]

Experiment done, HTH would it get through the teat anyway? Confused.com!

 

[KayBea]

Experiment done, HTH would it get through the teat anyway? Confused.com!

Depends how much u put in?

 

[scooterchick]

It's not illeagal to leave baby in a bath on their own for a second. But most sane people wouldn't do it. Even if the risk is tiny, as I'm sure it is with rice in a bottle, it's a risk that I personally wouldn't take.

 

[Miss_Bump]

When weaning a baby would generally be older than the age when most parents are putting rice in the bottle so would be better equipped to move their head in such a way that they don't choke; also milks such as staydown and comfort are designed to mix evenly throughout the product and to not be a choking hazard if they are thrown up, they are also designed to be far less likely to be brought back up but adding baby rice to normal formula or breastmilk simply isn't comparable.

Exactly what SR has said

Also, at weaning age (6 months) a baby's gut and digestive system are much more mature and will accept food compared to a baby below this age with an immature digestive system who may vomit up the foreign food that it's body doesn't need

 

[xnewxmummyx]

Experiment done, HTH would it get through the teat anyway? Confused.com!

Depends how much u put in?

when i put isobelle some in hers *hands up dont shoot* it came through the teat perfectly, vari flow is the future ya know

 

[xnewxmummyx]

Surely there isnt a great risk of a baby being that sick in the night it chokes on its own vomit, or surely the guidelines would have stayed at put baby to sleep on the side

 

[Miss_Bump]

Surely there isnt a great risk of a baby being that sick in the night it chokes on its own vomit, or surely the guidelines would have stayed at put baby to sleep on the side

Good question, I asked the same thing to our paediatrician regarding evies reflux.

It's highly unlikely for a baby to choke on just milk. The amount of times I used to wake up to Evie with sick dribbled down her cheek and in her bed I've lost count. Like summer rain said in her previous post, rice and cereal thicken milk totally differently to how gaviscon and goodnight milk thicken it

 

[mrs_park]

I'm confused! Does your baby have reflux, or is it just to help him sleep? Surely there are better methods your gp can prescribe something more effective? And if it's just to make him sleep, can I ask why the need to make him sleep? Small babies wake a lit, I don't understand the obsession with having them sttn? Am I dumb, am I missing something?

 

[Miss_Bump]

I'm confused! Does your baby have reflux, or is it just to help him sleep? Surely there are better methods your gp can prescribe something more effective? And if it's just to make him sleep, can I ask why the need to make him sleep? Small babies wake a lit, I don't understand the obsession with having them sttn? Am I dumb, am I missing something?

Your not missing anything Hun

If my GP recommended rice in a bottle I'd report her! Also, if she suggested early weaning I'd change GP.

My GP was only able to prescribe infant gaviscon, we had to be referred to get actual meds

 

[xnewxmummyx]

I'm confused! Does your baby have reflux, or is it just to help him sleep? Surely there are better methods your gp can prescribe something more effective? And if it's just to make him sleep, can I ask why the need to make him sleep? Small babies wake a lit, I don't understand the obsession with having them sttn? Am I dumb, am I missing something?

Your not missing anything Hun

If my GP recommended rice in a bottle I'd report her! Also, if she suggested early weaning I'd change GP.

My GP was only able to prescribe infant gaviscon, we had to be referred to get actual meds

lol

 

[summer rain]

Why so funny? If a baby died because of that advice (which goes completely against NHS guidelines btw) then I'm sure no-one would be laughing.

 

[xnewxmummyx]

just because she would report the GP - I mean, why go a GP if you like your right? surely you would just do what you want/think is right anyway

the GP is supposed to be the specialist/professional



ive had enough now, im obviously fighting a losing battle and it seems to be X amount of people against me.

ill continue to do what i think is best for my daughter and im sure everyone else will.

happy parenting..

xx

 

[Miss_Bump]

I'm confused! Does your baby have reflux, or is it just to help him sleep? Surely there are better methods your gp can prescribe something more effective? And if it's just to make him sleep, can I ask why the need to make him sleep? Small babies wake a lit, I don't understand the obsession with having them sttn? Am I dumb, am I missing something?

Your not missing anything Hun

If my GP recommended rice in a bottle I'd report her! Also, if she suggested early weaning I'd change GP.

My GP was only able to prescribe infant gaviscon, we had to be referred to get actual meds

lol

I'm actually quite disturbed at your sense of humour if you'd laugh at someone who would report a medical professional for giving a mother extremely dangerous and potentially life threatening advice!

 

[summer rain]

I'm confused! Does your baby have reflux, or is it just to help him sleep? Surely there are better methods your gp can prescribe something more effective? And if it's just to make him sleep, can I ask why the need to make him sleep? Small babies wake a lit, I don't understand the obsession with having them sttn? Am I dumb, am I missing something?

Your not missing anything Hun

If my GP recommended rice in a bottle I'd report her! Also, if she suggested early weaning I'd change GP.

My GP was only able to prescribe infant gaviscon, we had to be referred to get actual meds

lol

I'm actually quite disturbed at your sense of humour if you'd laugh at someone who would report a medical professional for giving a mother extremely dangerous and potentially life threatening advice!

It beggars belief...

 

[summer rain]

just because she would report the GP - I mean, why go a GP if you like your right? surely you would just do what you want/think is right anyway

the GP is supposed to be the specialist/professional



ive had enough now, im obviously fighting a losing battle and it seems to be X amount of people against me.

ill continue to do what i think is best for my daughter and im sure everyone else will.

happy parenting..

xx

If the GP is giving advice that is clearly against medical guidelines, and yes I personally know some GPs and pharmacists and have in the past known paediatricians as friends and putting rice in the bottle/extra early weaning is not allowed to be advised by them, then I would report them. If I have wrongly reported them then they would not get into any trouble. GPs do get struck off or suspended for giving inappropriate advice on occasion; they are not infallible and I don't know any GP who claims to always be right. Many GPs will admit that they don't know the current advice regarding weaning, safe preperation of feeds, BF etc etc.

 

[KatelynsMummy]

My GP recommended rice in a bottle, I got home, and I re-searched it... Then asked for a new GP. The new GP went absolutely mental, and said no mother should be given that advise.
The old GP had to re-train.
My new GP asked me if I had done it and was so relieved when I said I hadn't and switched to hungry baby milk instead.
It is dangerous, it really is, and just because one baby might be fine with it for months, it just takes 1 bottle of baby rice on 1 night/day to harm them. In my opinion its not worth the risk and would rather do it straight off a spoon

 

[summer rain]

^Thank you hun xx

 

[Miss_Bump]

My GP recommended rice in a bottle, I got home, and I re-searched it... Then asked for a new GP. The new GP went absolutely mental, and said no mother should be given that advise.
The old GP had to re-train.
My new GP asked me if I had done it and was so relieved when I said I hadn't and switched to hungry baby milk instead.
It is dangerous, it really is, and just because one baby might be fine with it for months, it just takes 1 bottle of baby rice on 1 night/day to harm them. In my opinion its not worth the risk and would rather do it straight off a spoon

Exatly this!

And also just because a GP says so, it doesnt make it right