Samantha is a healthy eight-month-old girl who lives with her mother, Kathy, her father, and her older sister, who is almost three-years-old. Both parents now work full-time, and both children attend day care full-time. Kathy nursed Samantha exclusively before she returned to work and built up a supply of frozen breast milk. She nurses her twice per day now, early in the morning and before Samantha goes to sleep in the evening. Samantha gets breast milk offered in bottles at day care. Samantha is reported by the day care staff to be a good baby. However, when Kathy picks her up after work, Samantha wants to be held and will not sit in her high chair and she refuses to eat dinner. Samantha cries if she is not held. Samantha’s older sister wants to eat as soon as they get home. Kathy has so much to do at home after work that she finds it difficult to hold Samantha. Kathy thinks that Samantha must be hungry and that she would be less irritable if she ate her dinner. What signs is baby Samantha giving to show that she needs to be comforted rather than fed? How might Kathy change her routine to give baby Samantha more attention and meet the needs of her older daughter? At 8 months, is Samantha too young to overeat due to unmet emotional needs? Should Kathy stop or continue breastfeeding to improve Samantha's eating?
Samantha is a healthy eight-month-old girl who lives with her mother, Kathy, her father, and her older sister, who is almost three-years-old. Both parents now work full-time, and both children attend day care full-time. Kathy nursed Samantha exclusively before she returned to work and built up a supply of frozen breast milk. She nurses her twice per day now, early in the morning and before Samantha goes to sleep in the evening.
Samantha gets breast milk offered in bottles at day care. Samantha is reported by the day care staff to be a good baby. However, when Kathy picks her up after work, Samantha wants to be held and will not sit in her high chair and she refuses to eat dinner. Samantha cries if she is not held. Samantha’s older sister wants to eat as soon as they get home. Kathy has so much to do at home after work that she finds it difficult to hold Samantha. Kathy thinks that Samantha must be hungry and that she would be less irritable if she ate her dinner.
What signs is baby Samantha giving to show that she needs to be comforted rather than fed?
How might Kathy change her routine to give baby Samantha more attention and meet the needs of her older daughter?
At 8 months, is Samantha too young to overeat due to unmet emotional needs?
Should Kathy stop or continue breastfeeding to improve Samantha's eating?
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