Just looking for some advice if anyone has any please! My 3mo is still feeding really slowly and isn’t taking as much as I think she’d like to at a feed. She is bottle fed (as were my 2 older ones, so not my first rodeo!). She was 4 weeks early but absolutely fine and didn’t have to go to NICU or anything.
When she feeds she is asking for it in the usual ways, chewing fists, biting shoulders and crying like she’s never eaten in her life
then we give her a bottle and she starts off very enthusiastically, has a couple of ounces and falls asleep. She will have a bit more if I try and take the bottle away but realistically I’m lucky if she takes 4oz in one sitting.
The problem is, she’s then starving again between 90 mins and 2 hours later! Even overnight she’s on 3 hourly feeds at best. I’ve asked 3 times for a referral to tongue tie clinic as the older ones both had to have it snipped but they keep rejecting the referral as she’s gaining weight and on the surface of it seems to be feeding well but if anyone can tell me anything I can try I’d be grateful! She’s on a small flow Nuk teat, anything faster has her gagging and throwing up.