Baby struggling with bottle

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Baby has always been bottle fed and is 9 weeks old, for the last 2 weeks she has been struggling with feeding even when I know she is hungry.
It started with just the odd bottle so I thought she just didn’t want it and now it’s pretty much every bottle, nothing has changed at all apart from that she has took more to her dummy.
She either screams as soon as the bottle teat goes anywhere near her mouth or she screams and then tries to find the bottle but can’t latch on, eventually with some distraction we get her to latch and she’ll definitely be hungry as will take the full bottle or most of it. The other day she went 6 hours during the day without feeding which is not like her at all so definitely something going on!
Someone mentioned possible teething but I’m unsure has anyone had anything similar?

Is the teat size too slow for her?

Agree with the teat size, that's the first thing to rule out. Have you checked her gums too to see if any teeth are coming through?

I have changed teat size to faster and yes it is possible she is early teething but when we distract her she’ll take the bottle but do you think it could be the teething affecting her latch?

There's one way to find out. Give her a dose of Ibruprofen when she's next awake and apply a teething gel just before her next bottle. If she's more settled with that bottle it is probably teething that's bothering her

She’s only 9 weeks and all the teething medicines are 3/4/5 months plus