Paced Bottle Feeding (the basics). Today we’re talking about how to properly and safely bottle feed your little ones.

Position is an important aspect. Keeping baby in an almost seated, upright position and the bottle parallel to the floor allows you and hopefully baby to control the speed/flow of the bottle more easily and prevent gravity from causing the milk to flow out like a constantly dripping faucet.

We’ll also discuss the signals that baby may give if the bottle is flowing to quickly and how we can help them manage it more effectively.

You’ll learn about the suck-swallow-pause pattern that babies should achieve and how that helps them know when they are full (and prevent overeating – a chronic problem with bottle-fed littles).