How to Bottle Feed Properly | Infant Care

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Feeding your baby a bottle can be a wonderful bonding experience for mom, caregiver, and baby.

It's really important, when feeding with a bottle, that the bottle beforehand is sterilized, and that at the very last minute you take the top off. That's because there are a lot of germs around us, and if by chance you make a bottle, and then it hits a dirty counter top, if you put it on baby's mouth, it's dirty again. So try to keep a protective top on the bottle to minute you are about to feed the baby.

When you're feeding a baby, you want to have the head much higher than the legs so that the milk can go down comfortably. You want to elongate the baby so that the stomach and the chest area aren't scrunched up together. So holding the baby like this, with the head much higher than the feet and the stomach elongated, you just want to hold the bottle and gently push it into the baby's mouth.

Sometimes the babies, when they're very young, will reject the bottle and do a thrusting-out motion. The way to help that through is to shake the bottle, the nipple a little bit in the baby's mouth, press the nipple to the top of the baby's mouth, and eventually they will latch on.

You always want to make sure, most importantly, that the nipple is full of milk, because sometimes, justifiably, caregivers/parents can get distracted while feeding, and they may not realize that the fluid level has gone down. However, the more air that the baby gulps, the more gas and crying they will have, so make sure to position the bottle with full milk in the nipple; and as it gets lower, adjust the bottle by going higher, so that the nipple is full.

There are many different positions you can feed your baby. You can feed them holding this way. You could put them in your lap and feed them this way. If you need a little bit of help, you can put them in a highchair, you can put them in a bouncy seat and feed them this way. As long as you get to look at your baby, talk to your baby, and bond with your baby, feeding should really be a beautiful experience for you and your baby.

If your baby is crying during feeds, that's something that should be brought to the attention of your doctor. Usually babies cry very often, but during a feed they should take their bottle, usually very quickly, in ten, fifteen minutes.

If you find that the baby is pulling off the bottle and crying often, there could be a problem. It could be reflux, it could be something with the milk, or it could be that the nipple is simply too big or too small. So if they're crying during a feed, make sure to check that out with your doctor.

Remember to enjoy every moment during the feeds, and try to make as much eye contact as possible. It's really a wonderful time for you and the baby to bond.

[AmazingRoseyy]

Speaking as a former baby this is entirely true..

[adrb]

Showed it to someone her boyfriend was feeding baby lying down thanks for showing this very helpful

[anitalve]

bottle feeding doesn't necessarily mean that the mother isn't breastfeeding. bottle feeding gives other people a chance to bond with the baby, like the father and grandparents.

[rossclarke]

Great advice, our 7 week old took to it as soon as we took your advice. Thank you for the video.

[eirykmarie]

I close my eyes and I swear, Scarlett Johansson is speaking

[NehaPatel-zczq]

My baby do not latch to bottle and push the nipple away, Indian doc do not advice bottle feeding. How to understand what could be the issue and why baby do not latch?

[rassclat]

can someone help, in a bit of a catch 22 with feeding mine, he was on slow flow teat which didn't seem suitable (took him an hour to drink 1oz/half oz) each feed. changed him to a medium flow which he did great with 2 ounce in 15 mins which is the normal way generally? but now he's just either bringing it back up shortly after his feed or it keeps dribbling out his mouth any ideas? thankyou

[lovebug]

What if the baby cries cuz u take the bottle away to burp her?

[ajv]

Says to keep head above feet. Says it's ok to lay baby down in lap while feeding -.-

[NoCoIntelPro]

Do you keep the nipple full or just the tip?

[sayeh]

what do I do!? I did everything I can I had noticed that my baby does not drink from his bottle and I can not produce enough breastfeeding a day I need help we tried different bottles to see is it will work and he stills just doesn't eat I get worry cuz he will drink my breast milk but he can not have enough a day ik I sound like a bad mother I took him to the doctor to give me help nothing worked so the doctors said that the next couple of days try feeding him with a small spoon I did it work a little pls help!
p.s yes he has been eating I'm not gonna let a baby starve I give him all the breast milk I can

[kungkukaka]

Tnx because we have a performance task at school on how to feed, burp, bath, dress and undress an infant.

[immensamaria]

This inaccurate information. Please look into paced bottle feeding.

[Clitoric]

it's the shape of the doll (contour of the head, etc.) but if that were a real baby, she'd get supported naturally as his head would fall on her arm .

[tyrande]

i start training my baby after two weeks, she can accept well. Until she become more fuzzy to breast milk. I have to stop one week because i thought it is nipple confusion. Now she is 7 weeks, she refuse the bottle.... i'm worry now

[Obliteraetion]

i see dads dont play a role in this or are they just "the care" eirther way dads life = work, lunchbreak, work, overtime, come home, say hai to baby, sleep, wake up cheer baby, and back to work and cycle continies :P

[BorninBeauty]

What if your baby seems to gulp/drink very fast, still tilt the bottle?

[ThePixieEater]

I wish howtobasic did an episode with the same title

[deantannn]

Why are trying to click bait mums using a real baby in your video thumbnail and then proceed to show us on a dummy....appalling

[octobers]

I counted she said "baby" 20 times