Hi all,
Looking to get some advice or tips please - FTM to a 3 week old, formula feeding.
Long story short, we recently switched to vari flow teats as DS was falling to sleep during feeds and only taking small amounts at a time. This switch has worked wonders and DS now wakes up every 3 hours for a feed like clockwork (we used to have to wake him up which was a mission sometimes!) and generally takes about 3-4oz per feed.
However we've hit a new snag which I can't seem to get to the bottom of...
Feeds typically now go like this: DS feeds nicely to begin with and takes about 2-2.5oz of formula, it's all calm and he doesn't have a problem at all with feeding, we break for burping/winding - generally about 5-10mins, we go to feed him some more and he does this thing where he takes the bottle teat and sucks but doesn't swallow the milk so once it gets too much to hold it all in his mouth, it dribbles down the side of his mouth and then he'll spit the bottle out and all the milk and cough/gag, etc.
He shows all the signs of still being hungry after being winded but also gets angry and cries that we've taken the bottle away despite him spitting it out and not actually swallowing any milk and gagging.
This all usually results in the second part of his feeds being quite clearly stressful for DS and then it's tough to settle him afterwards. On the very rare occasion we've been able to get him to feed nicely again after winding but can't figure out why / what we might have done differently.
We're making sure his tongue is down, that his body is angled slightly upright and the bottle is angled right to his mouth / teat is full of milk etc. The only other thing I thought of is perhaps the flow of the teat is too much for him now, but then he seems absolutely fine with it when starting his feeds so I'm not convinced it is that?
Anyone had anything similar happen with their LO and have any idea why it's happening? Or any tips/suggestions for what we can try to do differently would be much appreciated! 