Guest guest Posted September 27, 2006 Report Share Posted September 27, 2006 Hi everyone , Thanks alot for ur advice and reply for my previous posting regarding pregnancy. For your info, my son is now 6 1/2 months. he is been on breast feeding (fully) for past six months and when my wife started to continue work, we feed him with formula milk. Problem now he reluctant to suck milk from breast. we aslo start to give him some food. I would like to know what are things we can give him and how we prepare it.? Rgds bala Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 27, 2006 Report Share Posted September 27, 2006 A reason for baby liking formula milk in comparison with breast feed could be starting of her menses or taking some pills also. PLease check up this angle. Baby may like formula milk more, if sucking effort is less and sugar content in formula is more. Age being six months, teething may have started. if that is the case, baby has change of tests too. Giving a tsp of crystal sugar with 2-3 drops of lemon juice squeezed in it, 3-4 times a day. This will help during teething period, and baby may pass less greenish watery motions. Some more recommendations are extracted from earlier messages. Dates: Slightly sticky fresh dates are a good tonic for children, pregnant/nursing mothers, petite kids, as already discussed by author in various other posts on ayurveda. Dried dates can be powdered for adding to milk when boiling, just before bedtime to make a good tranquiliser. Above recommendation is described at: http://health.ayurveda/message/6650 which also contains some items to be eaten by nursing mother so that her milk becomes equally attractive for baby. Recipe to boost the immune System [From http://health.ayurveda/message/6572] We have developed a malt preparation available here for babies; it has a high vitamin content and excellent bio-availability. Take green gram and let it sprout. After it has sprouted to about twenty millimeter long, allow it to dry in sun light. Rub between the hands to remove dried sprouts and then blow them away by fanning. Now we have isolated the gram seeds which you can grind in a mortar and pestle or mixer. The malt powder is now ready for use. Add it to boiling water and in five to ten minutes, a paste will form, to which a little jaggery can be added for taste. This malt is better than any product in any supermarket. The author fed this malt to his son until he was two years of age and has no recollection of his ever being sick in the last twenty years. ayurveda, "balatani24" <bala wrote: > > Hi everyone , > > Thanks alot for ur advice and reply for my previous posting regarding > pregnancy. For your info, my son is now 6 1/2 months. he is been on > breast feeding (fully) for past six months and when my wife started to > continue work, we feed him with formula milk. Problem now he reluctant > to suck milk from breast. we aslo start to give him some food. I would > like to know what are things we can give him and how we prepare it.? > > Rgds bala > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 27, 2006 Report Share Posted September 27, 2006 Bala We gave our son these foods, most of which were blended in blender or food processor or baby food grinder: Mashed bananas Baked yam zucchini whey from split milk Steamed carrots steamed or baked apples oatmeal with a little whey and Braggs rice bran syrup GB ayurveda, "balatani24" <bala wrote: my son is now 6 1/2 months. he is been on > breast feeding (fully) for past six months and when my wife started to > continue work, we feed him with formula milk. Problem now he reluctant > to suck milk from breast. we aslo start to give him some food. I would > like to know what are things we can give him and how we prepare it.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 28, 2006 Report Share Posted September 28, 2006 A reply received off-list from a friend is being posted here. A new twist to the way we should look at babies as a homogeneous assembly of "mind-body-spirit" the way we look at elders! Hello --- Also to consider ---- as adults we have forgotten that wee, little ones are fully present souls in a human body. They FEEL and react to everything in their environment. When mother and/or father experience anything, but especially significant change (ie., mother returning to work) the little one experiences it as well. UNFORTUNATELY, babies are not able to process with the neocortex brain and talk about it. They still experience it, react, and adjust, and the neocortex of the brain IS developing around his or her experience. In addition to the phsycial aspect of adjusting to formula at six months, baby is also adjusting to mother's abence, including absence of her breast as safety and nurturing. Baby will experience, without condolence or acknowledgement of feelings, that mother is gone. Every baby will react differently. My own daughter, at age six months, refused to make eye contact with me when I returned home after a three week absence -- resulting in her weaning. She giggled, cooed, and reached for her twelve year old brother. I had so regretted the decision to be gone and was totally miserable for the entire time. I had driven 1800 miles like a lunactic to see her and I was crushed that she would have nothing to do with me. She would only acknowledge her brother -- when I got my face in hers she would turn away from me and look for him and gabber and laugh with delight. She was obviously pissed. Five years later during my intense training in prenatal and birth therapy (www.castellinotraining.com) she and I healed this break in our attachment/relationship. What could have become a "funny family story" was actually a profoundly significant wounding and an opportunity for healing. The way in which a baby reacts to a situation will be a response that began in response to the circumstances of conception and the soul's journey, then the earliest experience of attachment to the uterine wall, then the attachment after birth (always disrupted in modern birth), and in this case, likely, the experience of first feedings --- was formula given during this sensitive period? It's all cummulative. It may feel like the "bad news", but the "good news" is that we can heal it if we are conscious of it. We women no longer have to carry and hold guilt -- we can transform it and our relationship with our babies. Babies will communicate very directly and clearly when we are willing to observe and listen, and let them have their opinion of the situations. Janel Martin-Miranda www.InfantParentHealing.com www.BabyKeeper.com/blogspot.com www.ItstheBabysBirth.com -- coming soon www.SafeBabyResolution.com ayurveda, "Shirish Bhate" <shirishbhate wrote: > > A reason for baby liking formula milk in comparison with breast feed > could be starting of her menses or taking some pills also. PLease check > up this angle. Baby may like formula milk more, if sucking effort is > less and sugar content in formula is more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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