Hi everybody!
I have suddenly got a fuzzy eater! He was 12 weeks last Friday and his formula-fed. Up until now, he has always fed like a dream - in week 7 we had to go on fast flow bottles because he struggled with medium flow - but that sorted the problem. Only last week I upgraded his bottles to 200ml because he started taking 180ml regularly. He used to feed every 3 1/2-ish hours duing the day.
During the last few nights, he has increasingly developed into a sleep through baby (good for me), first moving his 2am night feed to 4am, then 5am, and this morning he didn't properly wake up until 6!!! However, during the last three days or so, he also often didn't take full feeds any more - basically it was 100ml, then stop, and then me struggling to get the rest of the bottle down him before the formula expires. Which I often succeeded in, but I'd have preferred him to take the lot in one go as he used to.
This morning at 6am, after his sleep through night, I expected him to be ravenous. He did attack his bottle initially, but suddenly stopped after 100ml. He spent the next hour playing happily on his play mat, and every now and then I picked him up and managed to feed him some more, but it was a struggle.
At eight, he cried for food again - same thing, 100ml went down like a treat, but I don't seem to be able to get more down him without major spillage and struggle. Should I just be stricter again and say ok, if you stop after 100ml, you are not offered the rest of the bottle and you'll have to wait until you next feed? Or should I put this down to his 12 week developmental spell (he has learnt a lot in the last week or so - using his hands and feet, keeping head off the ground for ages!!!)?
Anyway, any advice would be appreciated!