Troubles switching 6 month baby from breastfeed to formula, refusing bottle #lostmilk

[vgahdmi123]

Couple of days ago I opened a topic below:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/childrens_health/4998164-my-6-months-old-baby-boy-is-in-hospital-due-to-vomiting-worriedfather

As a result, my baby was hospitalized due to dehydration since he was allergic to cow milk protein, which was probably in mother milk.
Due to stress that my wife and his mother had in hospital, her milk decreased significantly.

We are now in different trouble:
How to switch baby from breastfeed to formula? He is refusing bottle and we are trying for 2 days already, we have big trouble keeping him hydrated since he is looking to breastfeed and refusing formula feed. We hydrate him a bit with giving him water, but we are aware that nothing can replace milk.

Went to emergency again today but they returned us back home, they said baby is healthy, we just need to continue pushing her to eat formula.

It is amazingly hard and we are worried for our baby health since he is missing nutrition now and his skin is pale.

This sounds so tough for you.

We had similar issues with weight / hospital visits / refusing a bottle.

What finally worked for us was offering a bottle first thing in the morning (so he was starving!), sat in a bouncer in front of the TV for distraction. Obviously not ideal having to rely on a screen but worked for us after 7 months of absolute refusal. After a bit of time (can't remember if a few days or weeks, but not too long), he was totally on the bottle. We also tried a million different bottles and MAM ones were the ones that worked for us.

Sending you lots of luck at such a stressful time!!