Hi - hope this is the right place for this question, which is my first post. My 18mo is a generally happy and healthy child. However she still needs to be winded for 15/20 mins before her lunchtime nap and an hour or so at bedtime. She has milk twice a day - 8oz at 7am and 6oz at 3pm. She drinks plenty of water. She will only take milk from an Avent bottle with free flow soft spout, not a sippy cup (I try periodically). She happily takes water from a free flow sippy cup. If she isn't fully winded she cannot settle. Also, as she gets bigger and more fidgety it is hard to wind her for an hour because she just doesn't want to stay still and read for that length of time. She can walk and is fairly active. HV's view (at 12m) was that all 1 yos are self-winding. Not so! But I haven't come across this before, and other threads on windy babies mainly seem to be about food allergies. She is a pretty good eater tho I keep her off brassicas for wind at the other end. The other thing on my mind is that she arrived at 32 weeks, was tube fed for first 3 weeks, but BF from 35 weeks equivalent. Because she was quite small I am not sure she ever learnt to latch on correctly (BF was very time consuming tho we struggled thro to 6m) and I wonder if she takes in more air than other kids. Or maybe that's a red herring... I haven't been to the GP (ours is lovely) because I assume they will just tell me to get her off bottles ASAP - which may be the answer, but she's not making it easy! I would love to hear from anyone with similar experience - both solidarity and hopefully some answers. Thank you x
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18 mo still needs winding for 60 mins at bedtime
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Clatterseamum · 22/02/2014 19:49
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