My baby will be 4 months (IA) in two days. I've been struggling with her feeding pattern for the past two months.
She wasn't born chunky or anything but she started gaining weight with time, used to give her both formula and expressed breast milk as I wasn't producing enough. Once I started having good amount of milk I stopped formula. She hasn't had formula for a while now. Everything was fine until she started struggling and refusing bottles. Had to take her to A&E as on that day she barely had any milk. Found out she had Oral thrush infection. Was given medication and her symptoms resolved in a few days until she started showing same symptoms. Took her to A&E again and the doctor said her infection still hasn't resolved. They gave her more medication and now the course is finished and she's again refusing milk.
There are days when she drinks so well 800 to 900ml of expressed milk and then the amount starts decreasing day by day.
I'm mentally exhausted as this is my first baby and I feel like whatever I'm doing is not helping at all. Maybe it's my milk, maybe I should stop giving her my milk and move to formula. If she didn't drink so well on some days I would just accept that she is not other babies and doesn't need as much amount of milk as babies in her age and weight but I've seen how well she drinks. Even on days when she's not drinking well, I notice how she's drinking and will stop and start crying all of a sudden and then won't drink again.
- Have changed teats moved to Medium Flow teat which is No 2 I think
- Have changed bottles
- Burp her in between feeds in case there's any trapped air
- Always feed her in a calm and peaceful room with no distractions