My 11 week old was born weighing 8lbs 2oz on the 50th percentile. She was/is a poorly baby, spent 3 weeks of her life in NICU/HDU and has had major surgery. Since then, she's dropped to the 9th percentile. They think she might have CMPA and has been trialled on prescription milk for this. She's been on it 10 days so far. She was only taking 2 or 3 oz of milk but since the switch we're up to 4 - 5oz.
This is obviously good, but she has horrific reflux and is on infant gaviscon, but unless she's held perfectly upright basically 24/7, she's brings lots of milk back up. She's a nightmare at night because when she lies flat she immediately starts coughing and spluttering and milk even comes out of her nose. To add to her issues, she has an incredibly high arch palate, couldn't latch to breastfeed and after trying what feels like every bottle on earth she's OK with the boots own brand bottles.
But the problem we're having now is the CMPA milk doesn't mix well with the gaviscon and clogs the teats up- but these bottles just come with newborn or standard teats, no wider ones to allow for thicked fluids. I've ordered some x cut MAM ones to today to try, but last time we tried MAM bottles the teats were too shallow for her palate so I'm not holding out much hope. But because most bottles try to be natural/emulate the shape of a breast/nipple, we're repeatedly running into this problem.
She's got a few hospital appointments coming up in the next few weeks and is being seen by the dietician and SALT at various points so I'll see what they advise but I'm reaching out here too cos I'm at my wits end. I just want to get some calories into my baby and get some weight on her but I feel like nothing is working. If anyone can recommend anything in terms of bottles especially I'd be grateful.