Please help! 3.5 mo will suddenly not feed anywhere but his bouncy chair?!

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Hi I hope someone can help,
3.5 mo DS is fed ebm from a bottle but in the last two days he has refused the bottle and screamed the house down until I put him in his bouncy chair where he will feed quite happily......I'm completely flummoxed. Has anyone else had experience of this?

We are due to go out tomorrow and Thursday and short of taking his chair with us I'm not sure what I'm going to to about feeding him whilst we are out

DH just says he is being fussy and starts getting frustrated with DS which I am not happy about obviously. He's a baby ffs there must be some reason but can I figure it out?!?!

TIA for ANY advice!!

Go with it, he won't be feeding from his bouncy chair when he is 5! Relax, make life easier for you and he and take the bouncy chair with you. You are not building a rod for your own back. It is horrible to try, sometimes, to rail against these things...better to keep things easy, he is only 3.5 months

I agree, just go with it, I swear this little funny phases at that age are totally normal and only last a week or two at most. Then he'll be doing something else to worry you instead.

He might be different when you're out and about too, as more distractions and he may know the bouncy chair is only at home.

Remember as adults we still have funny little rituals with our food too, think of yours; perhaps always drinking your tea from the same mug, or using a favourite spoon to eat your cereal/pudding/whatever. It's probably connected with that. He must just really enjoy his bouncy chair and associate it with happily having his milk.

If he's fine when you go out and about perhaps just have a few days of going out a lot to break the cycle?

Thanks for your replies, I think I will take the chair just in case but hope the distraction of being out will make him forget his chair!!

Best of luck!

My 7 month old will only take a bottle lying completely flat in his cot! I've tried every conceivable position but he just screams and writhes. Bit of a disaster trying to get him to take milk feeds when out and about and as a result he's on 3 meals of solids a day as getting milk into him is such a bugger! No real help I know but be reassured you're not alone! He will occasionally take a couple of oz reclined in his buggy but its a struggle.

DS does this, at 6 months he will only take his night feeds and half his first morning feed in my arms, rest of the time its the bouncer! We gave up battling it. If we're out he'll take it from the car seat, and a couple of ounces with us holding him but no more. No idea why but he's still gaining weight so not really stressing about it!

I'd forgotten DS went through a phase of this! Just go along with it, it's not always possible to fathom what the hell is going on in their little baby heads. It can't last forever.

Your DH is going to need to relax, or he's going to spend quite a lot of the next 18 years frustrated!

Thanks ladies I'm so glad I'm not alone! Tried an experiment last night and if he's really hungry he will feed in my arms. Seems I was pre-empting him too much and he preferred sitting in his chair messing with the bottle because he simply wasn't hungry enough.....we'll see anyway I might be wrong!!

I feel for those of you with similar problems.......flat in the cot that must be hard work!!

DH does need to chill out a bit more, I think he forgets DS is just a baby and is constantly changing. I had a word with him (dh) last night and he was much better!