Sick after drinking expressed milk from bottle

[Shiny95]

I tried my five week old on the bottle today with expressed mild from yday. I refrigerated it immediately after expressing (the bottle and expresser were all sterilised).
She drank the whole amount - just over 100mls. The teat i have is a pigeon peristaltic for newborns.
To get to the point - 2 hours later, she vomited an extremely excessive amount.
Do you think she drank too much and too fast????

[the_queen]

I'd say you're right - the same thing happened to my DS, he was around the same age and I expressed some (just to ease the engorgement I had) and instead of wasting that liquid gold, I let husband feed it to him. But he sicked up quite a lot, and he'd never done that before.

[mama anne]

a mum at my mothers group was told by her lactation consultant that feeding a bfed baby expressed milk shouldn't take less time than a normal feed would take - but bubs can obvoiusly drink bottles quite fast so she said if you need to burb bubs throughout the feed to stretch out the time then do that

hope that helps - it makes mummy sense to me (faster feed could equal upset tummy), though i'm not sure of the scientific basis to it.

[meme]

you can also sit bubs more upright and hold the bottle so that your baby has more control over how much they drink , so that the teat is filled with milk , but dhe bottle is not tipped up too much. the ABA call it paced bottle feeding and it is shown in their booklet on expressing and storing milk. the booklet is only abouut $5.50 so if you wanted to check it out go to the mothers direct website.

[kadownie]

My little girl used to do that as well- she is a real guts. If it was in a bottle she would always drink the whole lot and then sick up what she didn't really need.

I guess with the bottle the flow is the same the whole way through the feed- so they gulp it down, where as on the breast it slows down as the breast emptys and they know it's the end...??? I would try not to worry too much unless she continues to vomit and she's not having wet nappies....

[Shiny95]

Thanx girls, some great tips there. I'll try sitting her more up-right next time, and look into getting the ABA booklet.
Poor liitle thing, has her daddy's problem of eye's bigger than her belly.

[Shanaynay]

This happened to me too.....scared me off the bottle :eek: