Looking for advice. The last few days or so my 5 month old is not taking all of his bottles.
Here is what he was doing:
7am - wake
7:30am - 8oz (usually takes between 30 - 60mins to feed, with a 10 min rest in between)
Activity and nap
11:30am - bottle - 5-6oz (used to take 7-8oz up until a few days ago)
13.30pm - solids - veggies, 2 or 3 ice cubes - varies daily - it's not his main food so if he misses it or gets it later I don't worry.
15:30pm - bottle - 5-6oz (used to take 7-8oz up until a few days ago)
19.45pm - bottle - 10oz (drained)
no dream feed - never has and has slept through the night past week
The 2 middle bottles are a huge struggle to feed him to to say the least, he turns his head to look at everything but the bottle, he knocks it out with his hands! The other thing you need to know is that he doesn't usually tell me when he is hungry i.e he doesn't cry and he ALWAYS sucks his fingers, so I just feed home 4 hourly.
Secondly, he moved from 3 to 4 hour EASY himself when he was 3 1/2 months and he was playing with his bottles then as well.
I struggle to get him to take his morning bottle, a few days this week he refuses his catnap at 6pm ish and has gone overtired to bed at 8pm. Any thoughts. Should I try to get him down to 3 bottles? If so, at what times? He always wakes at 7am ish.
At last weigh-in (2 weeks ago) he was 16lb 3oz. I know from experience with him that if he takes below 30oz in a daily he wakes at night for it.