DS2 is just over 7 weeks old now, is breastfed and a great, efficient eater. Since he was 2 weeks old we have been giving him one, sometimes two bottles of EBM per day, usually an evening feed or the dreamfeed. He'll occasionally get a bottle in the daytime if I'm out, and usually the bottles are given by DH but he seems to accept them fine from me too. About a week ago, he has been what sounds like choking or gagging on his bottles, eventually getting upset. He will still accept a breastfeed at these times. He's come down with his first cold this week, but this started before he got sick, and on his first day of being ill, he took a bottle well because he couldn't latch onto the breast. We're still on the Stage 1 nipple, could this be the issue?? I'm pretty sure I've got a very fast letdown/flow so I know he can handle the faster flow.
Any thoughts, suggestions?? It's extremely important to me that he is able to be fed by others, I didn't have that with DS1 as we just weren't consistent enough with giving bottles at the beginning, and he eventually refused them and so we gave up on it. I didn't realize then how limiting it would be!!! So we're quite new to the whole bottle feeding business!
