She had always been fussy with both breastfeeding and drinking formula, and had had god knows how many nursing strikes since she was 3 months old. She seemed to have a few weeks of bad feeding then maybe a week or two of good feeding. She has taken really well to solids since 5 and half months, but since the last month has been going more and more off her milk feeds, each feed would take an hour, and she drinks maybe 100 ml each time. (morning, afternoon and evening). She drinks maybe 40-50 ml before lunchtime. For each feed, usually she stops now at 50 ml and cries or just struggles, I give her a break, she takes another 10 - 20 ml (really really slowly, she would suck but not swallow basically), another break, and so it continues for the hour. It is exhausting, and I don't know what to do. Should I change formula? She is using SMA Follow on Milk at the moment. Should I give her less solids so she drinks more? (she takes around 12 - 20 teaspoons of food, more during lunchtime than teatime). I also tried giving milk to her in the beaker as she takes water from it, but she just lets it drop back out of her mouth. Also tried a MAM trainer cup but she just pushes it out of her mouth and starts playing with the teat.
Any similar experiences/suggestions?