4 m/o suddenly spitting and choking on milk - help!

[babypanther]

My 4 month old DD has just today been struggling to drink her milk. She is formula fed and we use MAM bottles, we had sized up to the 4+ month teat a couple of days ago and she’s been absolutely fine drinking from them. But the feeds I’ve given her today, milk has been pouring out of the sides of her mouth, she’s been spitting and choking on it, so not having a full bottle since I don’t want to force her to drink it.

I’m a bit worried as this has never happened before, I tried to contact our HV but she only works one day a week so can’t get in touch with her.

Does anyone have any suggestions what might be wrong? I could only think it was the teat but she was drinking fine from it yesterday. Any responses appreciated

Have you tried changing it back to one of the older teats?

I would change it back to the smaller teat. Is she congested in her nose at all? My little one struggles to drink as much when the snotty.

Change back to the smaller teats

@Blackoutbeans @Correlation @Moonshine160 we got rid of the smaller teats as she seemed to take to the new ones absolutely fine 🤦🏼‍♀️ she doesn’t seem congested no, I don’t know what else to do! Panicking a bit

Could you try getting her to drink slower, lots of breaks etc, make sure she's sitting really upright? Might help a bit?

She could be getting a cold and can't breathe through nose properly as my little one did this but try get an appointment with GP if she doesn't feed for over 24 hours. Or try giving her small amounts from a syringe

Does she have a sore throat? Is she bunged up? That can make it very hard to feed if so