My 11 week baby has been resisting formula feeds last few weeks. Happily drinks breast milk or expressed breast milk from bottle but doesn’t like to drink formula. He turns his face away, starts pushing the bottle. He gets increasingly hungry and cries but doesn’t take milk. We have tried changing the temperature of milk, faster teat size but nothing seems to be working. We tried changing the formula as well from Aptamil to Hipp Organic. It helped for few days but now he is back to refusing it. I wish I got enough bm supply for him but I don’t and he needs to have formula.
Also, what worries me is his weight gain has slowed in last 2 weeks. He was born on 9th percentile and had a bit of episode of weight drop after birth because of low breastmilk supply. We started topping up on formula and then he gained weight climbing to 50th percentile. This was till 9 weeks but last two weeks he hasn’t been gaining weight properly. Between 10 and 11 weeks it was actually steady at 5.5 kgs and looks like he is dropped to 25th percentile in last week.
What should I do? Feeding has become a nightmare for us. I am losing my mind.