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3mo not feeding as I’d expect

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MysteriousFalafel · 07/12/2025 21:32

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 Grin 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.

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LemonJuicePopcorn · 07/12/2025 21:36

Could you try a different brand of bottle/teats?

MysteriousFalafel · 07/12/2025 21:40

I can but I’m not very convinced that’s the problem, she seems to get the milk at a pace that suits her (we’ve tried a faster flow Nuk teat as well as a latex one and the standard silicone one, latex just collapsed in and the others made her gag and throw up). I wish there was a bottle bank you could borrow from! Just don’t really have £50-£100 spare to throw at the situation unfortunately

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Garman · 07/12/2025 21:42

Crying and especially crying that much is a late hunger cue, bless her 😔 Try getting it to her before she’s so worked up, hungry and upset. Are you doing paced bottle feeding?

At her age 2-3 hours at night is a perfectly normal stretch.

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SayDoWhatNow · 07/12/2025 22:01

That might just be how she prefers to feed. Not all babies are the same. My DD will have multiple feeds in quick succession, then nothing for hours; my DS basically wanted a snack every 30 minutes.

MysteriousFalafel · 08/12/2025 08:05

Just to clarify, I’m not waiting until my baby is hysterical before I feed her. Just thought by 3mo she might be starting to take a bit more at each feed rather than falling asleep on the bottle after a couple of oz.

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