While not a warm meal and perhaps not appropriate for this baby, might this  
child be able to be spoon fed frozen breastmilk like a slushy?  I've  
suggested this to moms in the past whose babies won't take enough milk from the  
bottle, or at all, due to nursing strike and it's worked, at least for  awhile.  
The other thought is mixing breastmilk with solid food, such as  sweet potato 
which is dry and spoon feeding.  I had a working mom whose  baby wouldn't take a 
bottle at all nor the slushy of frozen breastmilk who told  me she could mix 
3-4 oz of breastmilk with a meal of solids.  These were  all older babies, 6 
mos or more.  Whether either of these would work long  term, I'm unsure but 
this would avoid adding thickeners and possible  risks.
 
The slushy idea was from Cathy Genna who said it can be helpful for babies  
with sensory integration disorders who need strong stimulus to muscles, oral  
ones in the case of feeding, and that cold is a stronger stimulus (I hope I 
have  this right).
 
Barbara Latterner, BSN, RN, IBCLC



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