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Your Baby’s Bottle-feeding Aversion

Reasons and Solutions.
Summary:

The book provides an in-depth analysis of why some babies develop an aversion to bottle-feeding, exploring psychological and medical factors that can contribute to this issue. It offers practical strategies and solutions for parents to help overcome their infant's feeding aversion and establish a positive bottle-feeding experience.

Key points:

1. Bottle-feeding Aversion: The book explains this as a baby's resistance to feeding due to various reasons. Understanding this is key to finding solutions.

2. Identifying Causes: Bennett stresses the need to find the root cause of the aversion, such as forced feeding, distractions, discomfort, illness, or formula taste.

3. Responsive Feeding: The book highlights this approach, which involves recognizing and responding to the baby's hunger and fullness cues to prevent feeding aversions.

4. Practical Solutions: Bennett offers solutions like changing feeding positions, altering the environment, using different bottles or teats, and adjusting formula taste.

5. Emotional Support: The book acknowledges the stress parents may face and encourages them to seek support. Bennett reassures parents that with patience and the right strategies, the issue can be resolved.

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