Hello! I have a problem with my 9.5 week old bottle fed baby. he's started only having between 70-90mls/2.5oz each feed instead of 120-150ml/4-5oz. He had been taking 120ml/4oz from about 6 weeks with no problems at all.
I have looked it up on other forums and apparently it's a common problem from around 10 weeks. But there's no conclusive solution. It could be various things but i have ruled out many of them, eg oral thrush, going off milk, wrong flow teat, wrong temp, easily distracted (therefore fed in darkened room etc). I thought initially it was just cos of the 8 week jabs but that was nearly 2 weeks ago. He doesn't seem unhappy tho....unless i try and feed him more than he wants. Then he just screams and pushes the bottle out of his mouth with his tongue and shakes his head about. Sometimes he does that but then will take a few gulps but then starts shaking his head again.
Another thing was that he started to refuse more when we changed to powder from ready made but i have tried him back on carton milk but it makes no difference.
He will happily take his dummy tho when he's had enough to eat. And i have even try to trick him by whipping the dummy out and putting the bottle in but this will only work for a few mins max.
Does any one have any suggestions?