Sudden bottle refusal

[Ellebel]

I have a 3 month old who has been predominantly bottle fed (mixed formula and breast milk) from birth (have endlessly tried to BF, but has refused, even after lactation consultants and a late diagnosed tongue tie snip). In the last week he is suddenly refusing the bottle. Same bottle as always. It’s an hour battle to get him to feed, eventually he does and drinks the lot but it is such a long stressful process of pure hysteria. Has anyone experienced this? We’ve tried a teat 2 from a size 1 but didn’t seem to help, maybe we need to keep trying. But at a loss as to why this is suddenly happening or how to fix. Any advice much appreciated

Could be that baby has a tummy bug and doesn't feel like milk / could be teething and gums are sore. Have you changed teats or bottles? When was the last time baby had a poo? If constipated might have a sore tummy! Really important to feed little and often if they don't want a huge bottle and to speak to a medical professional asap as they can become dehydrated very quickly when they're that small x

This happened with my dd. At 3 months she suddenly hated her bottle- she is formula fed. It would become a battle to feed her and feeding took around 2 hours. We changed to a size 2 teat as I found she was becoming lazy and would end up falling asleep on teat 1. This helped for a little while but she returned to being fussy. I ended up swapping brands of bottles and it’s actually helped.
My dd began really teething at 3 months so changing bottle teats helped with it.
Is your baby still having plenty of wet and dirty nappies?

It's not unusual for a combi fed baby of this age to start showing a clear preference for either BFing or the Bottle.

I think you've had some good tips on here already.

If you're finding the FF stressful, could you work on upping the BFs or BF for a bit and then offer the bottle?

This happened with one of my DC, I would really recommend reading Rowena Bennett's "Your baby's bottle aversion"

From memory it is available on Amazon to download and I read it as quickly as possible and it REALLY helped! Good luck OP!