DD has never been an easy baby to feed, she has always taken such a small amount but as her weight is fine no one seems to think this is an issue. She is over 5 months old now and will only take 3-4oz per feed sometimes its 2oz! As background she is lactose intolerant and possibly cows milk intolerant and is currently on Neocate formula (after trying a few others). We switched to stage 3 teats a month or so back and she was doing fine on them.
The problem we have now is that this past week she is just flipping out if we try and feed her. As soon as the teat touches her lip she throws herself back, arches her back and screams BUT does her hungry cough like cry at the same time. Its like she wants it but cant stand it at the same time. My firts thought was maybe she has a sore mouth but no signs of thrush or anything and the dummy goes in no problem so that wouldnt make sense. Ive had to resort to putting the dummy in to calm her then whipping it out and quickly putting the bottle in so she will suck a few times before moving it out with her tongue and repeat the whole thing again.
As the week has gone on she seems to be getting worse, her first feed of the day never goes well as she always takes such a little amount first thing but this morning it took an hour to get her just to take 1oz!! Then it was 5hrs later before I could get her to take anything else.
Due to the small oz intake she still goes about 3hrs between feeds (day and night
) sometimes 4 if we're lucky. She still has 2 night feeds, one usually before midnight and the other 3-4am ish. I just dont know how to solve this one it seems she will never take a large amount and without that will NEVER sleep through
and this new refusual problem is just worrying me. I thought she may be teething but no other signs yet but surely she wouldnt like the dummy either as its same as bottle teat really?
