Cousin-in-law having a hard to getting daughter to take a new bottle after surgery.

[nickie]

Fluids are a must and if she won't take the new bottle then maybe they can try an oral syringe to give her something to drink. I understand where a lot of people are coming from with saying a child that old shouldn't have or need a bottle, but the child just had surgery. A traumatic event isn't the time to make drastic changes. If she can't have the old nipple then give her the new bottle with new nipple and try to coax her to drink from a syringe. Happy faces all around.

 

[leadwolf1]

Sometimes there are medical reasons why a child can not/should not be weaned. This might be one of them. If she needed an extra long nipple, maybe she couldn't get enough fluids from a cup.

I hope she is doing better and the crying has stopped. What a miserable and stressful time for the entire family.

 

[reveriereptile]

She is doing better and the problem she had was just a stitch that came undone but didn't go through to the second layer. The doctor said it would heal on its own.

The doctor also said she can go back to using her old bottle. She couldn't drink from a cup before her surgery due to the cleft being so deep causing her to choke is why she wasn't weaned already. Her old bottle had a long nipple that would reach to the back of her mouth past the cleft. Now that her mouth is fixed and she is doing good they are going to start working with weaning her.

 

[leadwolf1]

I'm glad she is doing better Now they can wean her in at a much easier time.