6 week old will not finish bottles

[HiPosey]

Hi all,

Im new to all this so excuse my lack of code usage and this is also my first child. My 6 week old will not finish her bottles. We have even tried a new brand of formula but still no improvement. She gets to 2 oz then we struggle to get to 3oz. We have been trying to follow health visitor advise of 4 oz feed every 3 hours, but she never finishes a single one, unless we sit for over an hour but then she is sick afterwards from obviously having too much milk.

can anyone offer advice? I’m so confused on what to do.

Just feed on demand. If she only takes 2-3oz then just give her that. She'll make it known if she wants more.

Feed on demand.

Newborn tummy size

Another vote for feeding on demand. As long as they are having enough overall and have wet nappies they will be fine. LO knows how much milk they need and how often .

Thank you. Finding it hard to adjust to having no routine with my day. Will keep trying.

Yes please feed on demand and don’t listen to the health visitor. I did this and stressed my baby would only take 2oz at the same age and he kept refluxing it back up and when I visited Alder Hey hospital they say 1.5-2.5 oz was absolutely NORMAL. Even now at 4.5 months he drinks on average 3.5-5 oz every 3 hours and he’s putting on weight like an absolute champ. I felt so awful that I’d been trying to drink these huge amounts.

Oh wow ok. Even on the formula tins it says 4oz so I just felt pressured into trying to get her to commit.
She has put on weight, I can feel my arm getting tired quicker haha. I’ll just let her take what she wants from now on.
I find her cues hard to read, some over lap with tiredness as she’s also a rubbish day napper unless she’s on me. I feel I can’t get a moment to myself. It all started so well and now she’s just being so challenging. Just wish there was a way to make it simpler, it’s very isolating being a first time parent.

I completely understand. I’m exactly the same. I would cry when he’d drink so little and the tins would say he should be on double/triple what he would drink and then I remember someone saying to me, if he was breastfed, I’d have no idea how much he was drinking so try not to worry and focus on wet/dirty nappies, are they alert/happy? Do they look healthy? Are they putting on weight?
my little boy does have reflux and cmpa so feeding has been an absolute mine field for us and it’s still something I have a lot of anxiety and dread over.
my lo also gives either no cues or really confusing cues and basically cries a lot 😂 so I never have a clue. It’s ridiculously difficult but does get ever so slightly easier as they get older.
Try not to stress about naps either. At her age it’s totally normal she’d want to nap on you. You’re her world and her comfort. Although it is a pain! When all you want is something to eat/drink, go to the loo.