Conference moira::parenting

    
    I would certainly talk to your pediatrician but some thoughts..
    
    What type do you use..if premade maybe try a new can in case that
    one can didn't taste right. I used to use concetrate and some cans
    seemed to have a stronger smell than others..not that anything was
    wrong with them just different (my son drank it anyway)
    
    Does she take the bottle for juice? Is it a bottle thing problem?
    New nipple?
    
    Also when children start food they take less formula and are
    excited about new tastes!
    
    Good luck
    

    I'm curious how many new and different foods your daughter has had
    recently?  Both of my kids seemed to go through a phase of not really
    liking either milk or formula, especially when more interesting tastes
    came along.  For my son, he wasn't interested for most of the time 
    between 1 and 4 years old (rediscovered it only because one of his good
    friends always asks for it).
    
    As for my daughter, we visited family in the southwest during the summer 
    when she was eight months old.  This was when she FIRST started turning 
    away milk.  I guessed it was the heat, since she drank lots of juice. 
    But, I was lucky if she'd drink 8 oz of formula per day.  From then 
    on, she'd only drink formula (or milk) before a nap, and from a bottle. 
    Now that she's off the bottle, she absolutely won't drink it from a cup
    (takes a drink, realizes what it is, opens her mouth and just lets it
    spill out).
    
    I've spoken to my pediatrician about this a few times.  Since both of
    my kids are good yogurt eaters (they'll eat plain or flavored yogurt)
    and big cheese eaters, she wasn't worried.  She said to vary their
    diets, make sure they took their vitamins, and give them enough yogurt,
    cheese, or other milk products to provide sufficient calcium.
    
    Peggy

    6-8 months is the range for nursing babies to go on a "nursing strike." 
    They really cut back on nursing duiring this time for a bit, and then,
    just as you are ready to decide they want to quit they pick back up
    again.  Since babies are babies, regardless of how they are fed, it
    wouldn't surprise me that bottle babies would go through the same
    thing.  
    
    Check with you care providor to make sure there isn't anything else
    going on, but if she or he is really getting into solid foods this may
    be a short-term thing, until they bablance things back out.
    
    meg

    
    Thanks for the feedback.  She has really been expanding her diet
    lately.  All different types of baby food and her cereal.  We just
    introduced yogurt, she's not that crazy about it.  I'm going to call
    the pedi tomorrow and I'll still try to give her the formula.  She's
    not that crazy about juice either.   It helps to know other people 
    have had the same experience because theres nothing about this in 
    any of the baby books.  Thanks again and keep those suggestions and
    info coming.
    
    Kathy
    

    
    I'd worry most about dehydration.  Make sure she is getting plenty
    of fluids.
    
    Also, when people give their children yoghurt, do you mean plain
    yoghurt?  I hate that stuff!  I can't imagine why a baby would like
    it... seems like an acquired taste to me.  Now, fruit flavored yoghurt
    is a different story but it has alot of sugar added which makes
    me shy away from that for a very young child.
    
    Karen
    

    Karen,
    
    My kids started out on plain yogurt with fresh fruit mixed in.  Small
    children don't seem to have the same taste buds adults have.  If they
    did there wouldn't be so much concern about accidental poisonings from
    clorox, ammonia, gasoline.......
    
    Also, I am a compulsive lable reader. Not all fruit-flavored yogurts
    are created equally.  Some have been sweetened to the point where they
    hurt my teeth, while others retain the tartness that yogurt and fruit
    should have IMO.  With the new lablelling requirements in the US it is
    fairly easy to figure out which are which.  
    
    When Atlehi had a tummy problem that had her rejecting everything but
    mama, Frank and I found whe would take a small amount of water or juice
    in a spoon.  It does take frequent offering, but she made it through,
    until we figured out what was causing the upsets.
    
    meg
    meg

    Regarding .5
    
    I began feeding my daughter plain yogurt, and she loved it.  She was
    about 9 months old.  At this point, she had not had any sugary foods,
    and I'm sure that's one reason she enjoyed it.  Later, I tried feeding
    her yogurt with fruit added, and she turned it down!
    
    I think it's similar to thinking you need to salt your baby's food
    because you like salt, when in reality, their base of comparison
    is a blank slate!  I try not to let my pickiness interfere with
    what I give my daughter; she's already a better eater than I ever was!
    
    Regards,
    
    Jennie
    
    
    

Your child could also be teething...Since the front teeth generally come
in first, the nipple on the bottle could be painful. So, it might not be
the formula at all...Not sure if this help you deal w/ it, but might help
in understanding...As noted by others, I would be concerned w/ maintaining
fluid intake though (dehydration)...Maybe a little baby tylenol, or orajel
(my kids always vomited this back at me, but it may work for you), a cold
teething ring or wet washcloth to suck on (maybe best as some of that
fluid will go down!), might help rule this idea in or out?

    Not that this relates..however, I haven't been able to find plain
    'regular-fat' yogurt.  Its all no-fat, low fat.  Is there such
    an animal??
    
    

    
    re .9
    
    You may want to check health food stores for regular yogurt.
    They sure make regular yogurt, that's all they made before
    the low fat craze. Stonefield Farms, Whitney's, Breyer's
    make them. Try your local diary farms, they may have them
    too.
    
    
    Eva

    Stony Field Farms Organic Plain yogurt even has a layer of cream on the
    top!  We buy this, mix it with one part yogurt, one part thawed juice
    concentrate, and one part water... then freeze as popsicles.  They're
    great!