How to Bottle-feed your Baby?

By Smrity Sharma

* While you are bottle-feeding baby, held baby close to yourself just like you would have hold her or him while breastfeeding.

* Get the baby in contact with yourself physically, as this is the time when you will be able to make a new relationship and bond with her or him. Hold it close to your bare skin.

* Try to keep the head of the baby higher than the rest of the body in upright position as sidewise or backward position may make swallowing difficult. Some babies are in the habit of moving their head sideways while feeding.

* Always check the temperature of the milk before feeding baby. You can check it by letting few drops of milk fall on your inner wrist. You can warm milk either by running hot tap water or putting the bottle in the mug of hot water.

* When the baby had half milk, give a pause and make the baby burp. You can switch your arms after each feed.

* If your baby is making noisy sucking sounds it means he or she is taking too much of air. So, you can minimize swallowing of air by tilting the bottle so that nipple would be full of milk.

* Before bottle feeding always check the nipple hole. If milk is flowing instead of dripping than the hole is too big and if its not dropping and baby is trying too hard to suck then the hole is too small. You can pierce the nipple with the red hot needle.

* Don’t make baby finish whole bottle, never force them. They know when they are full.

* Never ever touch the nipple with your hands.

* If during the feed you have to put aside bottle then cover it with the lid provided along with bottle. Don’t leave bottle uncovered.