My baby has been mainly breastfed since birth but from 2 days old has also been fed formula top ups from a bottle. We gradually got him down to just one bottle of formula each evening which suited us all. However, for the past week he has refused to drink from the bottle. We've tried a different bottle and teat. I've expressed milk to see if he has gone off formula but he still won't take it.
I'm out of ideas now and beginning to feel stressed by it. It means that I can't go out and leave the baby with DH as he gets really worked up the hungrier he gets. More importantly it means I'm not getting enough sleep. DS is still waking every 2-3 hours at night. So I had been going to bed early and leaving DH to give a bottle so that I could get a few hours sleep in. That's obviously not happening now and I'm exhausted.
Does anybody have any ideas as to why this is happening and what we can do? The health visitor just said to keep trying.