Questions tagged [feeding]

Similar to the tags [eating] and [food] but focused on infants that don't eat on their own yet.

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If you warm whole milk, can it be saved in a refrigerator?

If you warm up whole milk prior to feeding a child and the child doesn't drink it all, can you save it by putting it in the refrigerator to warm up again later? Is this a bad idea?
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Hungry Child? How do I tell?

I just became a parent recently, so pardon me if I my question seems surprising to some of you, but how do I exactly know if my child is hungry, he is only 6 months?
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Best mealtime for babies to eat protein

The CDC write By the time he or she is 7 or 8 months old, your child can eat a variety of foods from different food groups. These foods include infant cereals, meat or other proteins, fruits, vegetables, grains, yogurts and cheeses, and more. If…
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6.5 month old still not feeding enough

Here's her feeding schedule, all expressed milk in bottle: 7:00AM: 3 Oz 11:00AM: 3 Oz 12:00 Noon: ~ 2Oz of solids (cereal or avacado or prune mixed with milk) 3:00PM: 6 Oz (really hungry) 7:00PM: 4 Oz + some breast feeding after her mom comes home…
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Disadvantages of feeding infants oranges

My mother is feeding my 4 month year old baby sister oranges (because she likes and cries for oranges). We think this could have a disadvantage on her. What should we do?
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What are the vegetables we can feed a two years old baby?

My daughter is two years old. So for we feed her only smashed rice, Dhal, Biscuits and milk. There after we decided to give all vegetables doctors gave us green light also. What are the vegetable we can give to a two years old baby?
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From bottle refusal to spoon refusal: what can I do to encourage feeding?

She's 10.5 months now. At around 3 months of age, she started bottle refusal, refusing milk from any bottle shapes whatsoever, unless she's half a sleep. So we started her primarily on solids at 5 month old age, with a little bit of milk mixed…
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