Teething and wont eat!

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DS (4 months) is teething and his appetite has totally dropped off. Gone from feeds of 5oz down to 2 or 3. Hes 2nd percentile so Im really worried hes not getting enough and will drop off the chart again. Im going clinic tomorrow to talk about it with a HV but I can guarantee you she wont have any 'real life' advice.

So, what would you do? Friend said give him a fromage frais but Im not doing that, I was hoping for advice for remedies/tips to get him drinking his milk!

This is a tough one. When my son was teething, he stopped taking any milk or decent food for a day or two. Even now, he'll pack it in when a new tooth comes through, and he's 3 now.

Persevere with it. He'll come out the other side :)

I wouldn't do nothing. DD was 'only' 2 centile as well, but it doesn't there is anything already wrong with. Statistically that is 1 in very 50 babies.

Main thing is to not force him, offer and make no fuss if he doesn't have what you think he should. Trust that when it's over he'll catch up.

Can also try more offering little and often and let him 'snack' or offer when sleepy or asleep, he might take more then.

IME, teething alone doesn't cause sustained non-feeding. Is he better after calpol/nurofen? Can you see the tooth coming through?

Agree 2nd percentile is nothing at all to worry about in and of itself tho - especially if he's otherwise healthy and happy.

I meant to say, how long has he been off his milk for? If it's only a few days, not a problem, if several weeks I would get the GP to check him out. Some babies ( my DD1 was one) can have acute ear infection for example with no crying. DD just went off her milk - that was the only real sign.

sorry forgot to add you should get him checked out at the docs just in case

In BF babies teething most certainly can cause non feeding, I don't know so much about bottle fed babies