Bottle / Feeding aversion

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Hi!
my baby girl is coming up to 5 months old. For the last two weeks she has not been drinking her bottles like she use to. I tried teething gels & powders, different temperature of milk, infant gaviscon
She is a twin. I feed them every 4 hours. At the 4 hour mark her brother his hungry for his milk, she’ll seem hungry but after drinking a few sips/ 1 ounce she will go crazy and cry push the bottle away. Overall she is happy and her normal self. She will drink her bottles in her sleep/ drowsy. So what I’ve been doing is when it comes to 4 hours I will rock her to sleep then feed her. It is taking ages! As I have to feed her brother at the same time, I’ve stopped leaving the house because of this, And I hate seeing my poor girl struggle. Last night she woke up at 5am hungry, last bottle was 8pm. She’s so hungry had a few sips then cries. I’ve also tried to go longer than 4 hours during the day so she is really hungry, but same thing happens, few sips and she won’t drink anymore, so I believe she is going through a feeding/ bottle aversion 😒 any tips how to overcome this?

Have you tried using the next size teat up

Rowena Bennett’s bottle aversion book is well worth a read. Her programme really works but you do need to follow it. However first I’d get her checked by a GP just to rule out ear infections etc especially as it’s come on so suddenly.

I recently moved from 1 to 2 (mam teats) not sure if I should go straight to 3? I’ll order to try them though

Ahh thank you!! I’ll have a look xx

Any signs of reflux? Silent reflux and food allergies caused by daughters feeding aversions. She started early but it got unbearable around 3-4 months and I could barely feed her during the day. She only fed overnight when sleepy and calmer
I see you have tried making the feed later but is it worth also trying to bring it forward too?

Hey. Her twin brother is on gaviscon for silent reflux so I trialed her on it for 5 days and made no difference. I could try bringing it forward and seeing how she gets off! But she goes on like she does not even get hungry!

Gaviscon alone made no difference to my daughter she needed omperazole too. If it is reflux smaller more frequent feeds can be helpful so 5x 4oz bottles is preferable to 4x 5oz bottles.

My daughter was breastfeed and would act like my boobs were poisonous. She'd have one suck the arch as far away from them as possible. At her worst she fed for just seconds at a time and only a minute or two in total during the day when she should have been feeding 5-10 minutes each feed.

It might be worth a chat with your HV or GP

Hiya
Just wondered if you have any solutions/ answers to this?
I am going through the same thing with one of my twins :(

Hi lovely
I have no solution!

im still feeding her while she is asleep/ drowsy and it is really getting to me.
what’s going on with you ? Xx