(a) Caregivers must feed an infant based on the recommendations of the infant’s health-care professional.
(b) Unless recommendations from the service team are contrary, caregivers must hold the infant while feeding an infant that is:
  (1) Birth through six months old; or
  (2) Unable to sit unassisted in a high chair or other seating equipment during feeding.
(c) Caregivers must never prop a bottle by supporting it with anything other than the infant's or adult’s hand.
(d) A caregiver who cares for more than one infant must:
  (1) Sterilize shared bottles or training cups between uses by different infants; and
  (2) Clean high chair trays before each use.

Source Note: The provisions of this §749.1819 adopted to be effective January 1, 2007, 31 TexReg 7469; amended to be effective September 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 7522; amended to be effective January 1, 2017, 41 TexReg 9944; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909