what a terrible night..
my girl has reduced milk intake (okay, that's old news) since saturday but i attributed it to the weekend and us being out and her being distracted and excited.
anyway it did not improve yesterday and today, and on top of it she has been crying uncontrollably on and off. today she did it again and i suddenly saw whitish patches inside her mouth when she opened it wide and cried loudly. i suspect it's thrush so it must be causing her pain which should explain the crying and milk refusal (even when asleep).
my regular PD is not open this evening by the time i discovered the problem, so had to scramble to look for another PD nearby. anyway took her to Baby Bear children's clinic in Woodlands. told the doc about the suspected thrush and also about her milk intake. actually i haven't start telling him abt her milk refusal yet. just told him she takes only 600+ml per day. he immediately said she has a shallow stomach and asked if we needed to feed her while asleep? i was taken aback, either he could read fortunes and tell by my girl's face or my panda eyes cos he hasn't even examined her yet! he went on to say that she cannot finish 150ml of milk at one go, true enough her max is only a pathetic 120ml. he says just to feed small frequent meals no choice, but then come all the bad news..
1. it'll get increasingly more difficult to feed her cos she'll sleep less and she'll be smarter and less easy to fool into drinking milk.
2. changing to formula won't help as she has probably formed a negative association with the bottle (feed = reflux and pain) that's why can only feed when asleep
3. she will NOT grow out of this 'phase'
4. she'll similarly be difficult to feed solids and also will only tolerate small meals
5. she'll prob never be interested in milk
i'm so depressed receiving all these bad news on the day she turns 6 months old exactly. it's pretty sad
and then hubby went home and dunno how he washed my pump he broke my personalfit funnel. now he rush out to buy cos i very scared of getting blocked ducts again
good news is mine's not the worst case of milk refusal. he says got other feed up to 6 small meals of cereal per day because of milk refusal. but must feed more waterif she dun take milk.
i was very upset and kept asking if i increase cereal feed won;t my girl be missing out on her nutrients? he say won't. then i asked when can start porridge and what i can put inside. he says can start porridge now with vege and puree eveything. 7 months onwards can start meat, and he says to use fatty meat and blend also. cos my girl drink less milk than other babies so need to get her fats elsewhere.
very sad lah, dunno what i did or fail to do to cause my girl to be like this