2month baby, when being fed a bottle with swollow hard than gasp for air. does it for a couple of seconds than
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Ask a doctor.if you were seeing him you would't be asking this question.
Try sitting him up as high as you can when feeding (which might be hard when breastfeeding) I have found that it helps babies who gag a lot. If thier little noses are stuffy sometimes they feel like they cant breathe.
Yes my baby was doing the SAME thing a few weeks back. He would like GULP his food from the bottle You could hear like noises in his stomach and hear him GULPING! Then he would do that then like spit the bottle out of his mouth, cry and have formula coming out of his mouth. It was so annoying. I would get mad and tell him to stop doing that. I don't know what it was all about but he stopped doing it. He was probably like 4-6 weeks old and now hes 10 weeks and hes getting the hang of it a little better. Maybe he don't like the bottle as much as he does your breast. If you do both it may be confusing for him. Check the flow on the bottle and make sure its slow flow, that was one of our problems too. Good luck hope I helped!
Right. Try sitting him up when feeding and it will slow him down a little bit. The only thing that is wrong is that the wholes in the bottle you are using are to big or/and he is just trying to eat to fast. Just like when we try to swollow to much at one time it hurts. Its the same for him. I breast freed so to sit him up while breast feeding, hold him kinda like a football in one arm and let him feed off of the breast on that same side, this allows him to sit up more while eating. Dont be scared my daughter did it sometimes to. Its no really biggy it just sounds and looks more scary then it really is. If that doesnt work try a different pediatritians opinion. Good luck and congatulations.
My eldest son reacted somewhat the same way to feeding. He also would spit up way too easily. As he got older he grew normally and the only health problem he had was an asthma-like wheezing. He was treated for that, inhalers, Adrenalin shots and so on. When he was 8 he was having trouble swallowing his food and would take breaks during the meal to go vomit. I finally got a good doctor who ran some tests and found he had Barrett's Esophagitus.The sphincter muscle between his stomach and esophagus had not grown in, for 8 years his stomach acid had been eating and scarring the esophagus. It was the size of a pen refill. A long surgery later he is fine. Now in his 30's and has no recurring problems. Have your doctor do an Upper GI just to be sure.
A second more benign possibility is that he just hasn't quite figured out the feeding process yet and works too hard and forgets to breathe, when he does, he gets some food down wrong and gags. That is upsetting and he cries. Try just giving him smaller moments with bottle and breast, let him swallow a little at a time and see if that helps. Good Luck, raising babies can be as much hell as it is a blessing!
My son did the same thing when he was a month or two old and it was because he was getting to much milk from the nipple. I think that the milk was flowing out faster than he could swallow. We changed nipple types to the orthodontic ones that have a dimple in them on the top to let the air in and out. It helps also b/c he doesn't get such a strong suction on it which made the nipple cave in. I think that they are made by Gerber. Try the "slow flow" size that are made for newborn and see if that helps.
The nipples you are using probably have too big of holes in them, iwould check that out before i have a 2 month old on acid reflux medication, although i'm not a doctor or anything. My daughter had this problem and it was the nipples in the bottle try to get some that say slow-flow for newborns
Check the nipple, if that is not it then ask your doctor to switch your baby to a different medication. My friends baby had that also they had to try several before they found one that helped!! Now her son if fine!
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