My baby is 10 weeks. She was 8lbs and 13 ounces at her month check up. We are heading to her 2 month check up today. We have been experiencing some issues with her during feeding. She has been taking only 2 ounces on average since we brought her home, the only difference is she was on a 2 hr schedule and now she has been on a 3 hour schedule. She averages 2 ounces per feed and on average about 18 ounces a day. At times she will only take in 1 ounce and on low days only gets 15 ounces in total. We have changed from similac advance to sensitive and noticed her fussiness changed, but not much in her total ounces. 4 weeks on sensitive and the fussiness symptoms reoccur:
can only feed her on legs as opposed to being held in arms, pushes bottle out with tongue and refuses after an ounce or two, she grunts, cries, and shows total discomfort. When you take away the bottle and give her the pacificer she calms. We have tried: more frequent burping, upright sitting, many, many bottles, moved to the next nipple, bicycle legs, giving her a break to pass gas, gas drops, gripe water, mommy bliss, etc.. you name it we have tried it.
We have noticed: she sleeps great during naps and mostly at night: 4 naps a day lasting 1 1/2 to 2 hrs and sleeps from dream feed at 10:30 until about 3, 4, or 5 am. She seems to eat more while she is sleepy. But after the dream feed (about 5 hrs) only take an ounce at wake time, follow same routine, activity, then sleep, she is fine as long as you are not forcing the bottle. Then she can wake and take 3 ounces or at times still 1 ounce.
This seems all over the place, sorry. Would appreciate any insight!
Kindly,
Rita
