Feeding baby from a bottle
A child who starts to whine, as soon as he receives a bottle with a pacifier, or who immediately falls asleep, may be dissatisfied with a hammered or too small hole. Check how the milk is delivered( if you turn the bottle, it must first flow in a trickle).As an experiment, try to slightly enlarge the hole.
How long can I use the bottle with the mixture after you get it out of the refrigerator? If the milk is stored indoors at room temperature or outdoors in warm weather, bacteria multiply rapidly in it. Therefore, it is undesirable to take a bottle for a walk for a few hours.
If you need to feed the child a few hours after leaving the house, remove the bottle from the refrigerator, put it in a special thermo-insulated bag designed to keep food in the cold, or wrap it in 10 layers( this is also very good insulation).
If your child falls asleep in the middle of feeding and you think that after two hours of rest he will wake up, immediately put a bottle with the remaining mixture in the refrigerator. But I would not use such a bottle more than twice.
In the second year of life, try not to give the baby a bottle of milk in bed. Some parents are concerned if a child in the second year of life asks for a bottle in bed;others do not care. If you are worried, you can take one precaution so that the child does not get used to the bottle in bed. Many children and ages 7-10 months consider themselves large and do not want to sit in the arms of the mother during feeding;these children want to sit themselves. In addition, they do not allow the mother to keep the bottle, but try to do it themselves. A practical mother, seeing that she is not needed, puts the child in the crib, where he drinks his milk mixture and falls asleep. This is convenient if you want to put the child to sleep, but the children gradually get used to the bottle and can not fall asleep without it. The mother tries to put the child at the age of 15, 18 or 21 months to bed without a bottle, and he desperately cries and can not fall asleep for a long time. I'm not saying that children always develop such dependence on a bottle with a mixture. And I do not claim that if you do not give the baby a bottle in bed, it will be easier to translate into solid food - but in many cases it helps. Let him keep the bottle - on your lap or in the armchair, and then, when he eats, put him in the crib.
If you prefer to use a bottle in bed as a sedative and do not mind giving it to a child in the second year, there is no harm in it.