Choking on bottle.

Reese513
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I would like to know if anyone else has had trouble with there baby choking on the bottle feeding. My baby was born at 31 weeks and stayed in the NICU for 50 days, they sent her home on 24 calorie breast milk with nectar thickner added in. They put her on a stage 2 circo nipple when she came home and she did fine for the first week then started choking bad, so i switched her back to the stage 1 nipple and it seems like the first 5 minutes she is eating she is choking 2 or 3 times. Does anyone have any suggestions.

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Mama_Cyndi

Could she be a greedy eater? When Casey started nippling in the NICU, he would suck so much out that he wasn't swallowing fast enough..then he'd get strangled. I had to count sucks (up to five or six), then tip the bottle so he wouldn't get too much and allow him the time to swallow what he had. He caught on that he needed to pace himself pretty quickly. Ask your ped about it though, just in case theres an underlying issue.

katek

How are you holding the bottle? Are you tipping the baby back so that gravity is allowing the milk to rush into her mouth? Or are you holding her upright with the bottle almost parallel to the floor so that she has to use her suck to draw the milk from the bottle? If you haven't tried the latter, I recommend giving it a try. Keep the bottle almost parallel to the floor, just tipped ever so slightly so that she doesn't suck in the air.

When baby is tipped back, gravity is doing the work. But you really want baby to do the work and let her control the amount of milk coming into her mouth.

Best wishes.

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