Why is my 4 month old fucking about with the bottle?

[BumWad]

Just as the title says my 16 week old (8 weeks corrected) within the last week or so has been reallyyyy fussy at feed times! He is barely feeding and just seems to want to chew on the teat, wave his arms around, pushes his head side to side and is generally a pain in the bum! He has just taken 65ml instead of usual 110ml. Saw HV yesterday and she wasn't very helpful. Weight gain has been ok but I'm concerned it's not going to be if he carries on like this.

I think I'm more concerned as he's still so little at 10lb2oz whilst the rest of the 4 month olds at baby group are fricking humoungous. This non feeding thing has got me really frustrated. I've tried the little and often and that's not working either. Oh and I've upped to a size 2 teat but he seems to dislike that too?

Why is he behaving like this? What can I do to make him feed? Previous to this he was a really good feeder and weight gain has been brilliant considering he was born at 3lb14oz.

kellymom.com/ages/older-infant/distractible-baby/

This is from a bf page but 4 months seems to be when they all get nosey!

I don't know if the quiet/dark room thing might help?

Does he have any teeth coming through? My DS (20 weeks) is BF but we give him a bottle of EBM once or twice a week so I can leave him with DH. Once his first teeth started coming through he started chewing on the bottle teat and making faces when it goes in his mouth!

Anyway it just takes much longer to feed so we just keep offering until he takes more. Sometimes I find if I try when he's in the car seat and I'm to the side he will take more maybe because I'm out of sight?

I sympathise it's so annoying when they usually guzzle down lots!

Your DS probably needs more time to catch up with his peers considering how tiny he was at birth is he following a centile line?

Thank you for your replies.
I think it is a combination of factors, a cold, distraction and teething! I can't believe he is surviving on such little feeding, he is alert and content and feeding when he wants so I am just leaving him and trying to go with his cues. It is still stressing me out though, he has dropped a centile a few weeks ago but only a bit. He's a preemie so really needs to put weight on not be stagnant or lose any!

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