Looking for some pearls of wisdom, sorry this may be a bit long.
My ds is 12 weeks old, weighs 11lbs 2 and up until about ten days ago was draining 150ml bottles. He was having 5 bottles during the day (last 2 being a split feed), so he'd have about 600ml before bed with 2 more smaller feeds during the night - all good.
Then for no apparent reason the feeds have rapidly reduced, started off as taking 120ml then 100 now down to between 60 and 90ml.
He was on the 9th centile but had slipped at his last weigh in - the health worker said it wasn't a problem but when I tried to get some advice about his difficult feeding, she just said don't worry about it.
I've tried him with no. 2 teats but it just all goes down his chin, I've tried comfort formula with no 2 teats as I thought with the formula being a bit thicker it might help, it made no difference. I've tried the ready made formula as i thought it might be smoother - made no difference. I'm just at a loss what to do.
The upshot being that yesterday he was up to ten feeds and took 700ml but that was a struggle with 45 min to an hour feed times. He's never been like this.
Any advice anyone??
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Debs3013 · 04/12/2012 11:31
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