Hi,

Ok quick history, ds is now bottle fed following weeks of struggling with BF, consulting everyone that could help etc etc but he could just not latch and drink.

Anyway he has always been happy on the bottle until about 10 days ago, he would happily drink lots and is/was gaining plenty of weight.

All of a sudden about 90ml into the bottle he will push it out and scream and then refuse to take any more, i would be ok if it was just that but after feeding he is upset for some time, lots of patting and burping and eventually he calms down and we can put him down and he will play etc, only problem then is he has not taken enough and we need to top up a bit before he can nap.

Some feeds he is better than others, but its the crying following feeding that is concerning me, i wouldn't mind if he was just pushing it out and saying no more, he then totally goes crazy if we even put the bottle near his mouth again.

I have A Dr app this afternoon, just wondering if anyone else had experienced this and whether seeing the Dr is a good idea or am I just overreacting? Guess I am querying either problems with wind or maybe a bit of reflux (but he never spits up)

Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

Yep, we changed up to the right teat size a while back when he started to get annoyed with the newborn teat.

I am thinking about changing formula, but how do you know which one to try next. We are on Karricare gold plus, Sheza what did you change to?

Ohhhhh, really even though he has always been on Gold.

Interesting, I have asked DH to go and get some plain formula. I really think it is wind, as some time after feeding he can taken more.

Take this morning, gobbled 90, then went nuts, and then won't settle until he has had another 60 (and he should be drinking about 150) just means all my feeds are all over the shop which is hopeless.

Also - dont get too hung up on what they "should" be having....Oli has always preferred smaller bottles more often. I think he was about 4months old before we managed to get a whole 150mls into him!

thanks, its hard not to think about what they should be having, but currently I know he is still hungry.

Sheza is there a reason he may want/need more on the plain formula?

its that part we are currently missing, he drinks and then is not happy.

We'll give the other formula a go and see how we get on.

I hope so too.

Poor wee monkey is in bed after really crying and snacking on small bits (50ml) or so for the last couple of hours. I really need him to sleep and have a good long break so he can digest it all. But he is hungry, phew what a day.

Thanks heaps for the tips.

he is - yay.

I know bottle feeding is just as tricky, just without the sore nipples I guess.

hmm fifi ill just repeat what sheza said as rayn did the same thing except it was the nurture, we had him on it from 4 weeks old after BF and then suddenly he didnt want it so we swapped him to s-26 and he loves it. Although he only seems to want less than what the tin recommends but hes not a guts like some babies. hehe.

Ok well I talked to Dh during the day and told him all about your comments re the gold stuff and said please buy basic karricare or basic s26, so he came home with s26 gold and then got mad at me saying i didn't say not to buy gold - grrrrr

Anyway swapped it and we have now got s26, i tell you immediately what i notice when you mixed up karricare gold and shook it up, it almost looked fizzy, s26 hardly any bubbles, that has got to be better.

He drank some without much fuss but did not drink much, but then has been very off today and hardly sleeping so think he was tired, we'll see what happens later.

Well we had a good night, apart from excaping his wrap at 2.30am, but that was easy to fix. Fed at 4am and then up at 7.15, where he polished off 140ml without even thinking, he burped real easy and is now playing on the floor.

I am excited that this might have done it. Either way I am not changing back, the formula looks and smells better, its less grainy and just looks smoother, often the karricare, we'd drink some and then i would see a lump, and this is after having properly shaken it up, s26 just seems better.

Fingers crossed for a good day.

Ok good feeding all day, less fussing and less screaming, plus he has drunk more and man the smiles I have been getting.

YAY

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