By way of background, ds2 is 4.5 weeks. He struggled to breast feed from birth and moved to ebm at 3 days but bottle feeding also a struggle. I suspected tongue tie (ds1 had one) and posterior tongue tie diagnosed and cut at 12 days. He then started breast feeding with nipple shields and seems to feed quite efficiently - good weight gain, feeds 10-20 min normally every 3 hours or so.
We are trying to give an ebm dream feed using doctor brown bottles with stage 1 teats to save my sanity (no judging please!) but his bottle feeding technique seems poor. It takes almost an hour for him to take 100-120 ml. He either seems to splutter and not suck properly or sucks vigorously but hardly takes any. The tongue tie lay said it should only take 10-20 mins to take a bottle of that size including allowing him natural pauses in his drinking.
I know posterior tongue tie can reattach but presumably he'd struggle to breast feed if it was that...?
The other thing I wondered is that my supply is good with strong let down. Do you think in comparison the teat 1 is too slow - I have teat 2 but don't want to drown him...!
Any thoughts, advice appreciated.