Help! 5 mo refusing bottle.

[KLou111]

I can't find a teething thread, and I think it is more that than anything else.
My baby has always been a big eater. Stopped bf at 11 weeks, straight onto hungry baby. Was advised by hv to start giving a small bit of rice around 15 weeks as he was already having up to 36oz per day and reflux.
Anyway, our little fella has usually 27-32oz per day aswell as 5tsp porridge, 4-5 ice cube size veg, 5-6 fruit, 5tsp rice per day, same for 3 weeks now as well established on varied solids.
Since last tues, so now a week, he's been totally off milk, and am lucky if I can get 18oz in! We've cut back solids, but the bottle seems to be the prob. I've used a sippy cup, doidy cup, but not interested. Even a free flow nipple gets spat out.
Am really concerned how to get the milk in!! I've tried spooning it in too. However, if I mix a bit of cereal in, he takes it!! I just don't know what to do.
Hv useless, I asked and she just said keep at it!!!
He is his usual happy self, but he sucks his gums like its his teeth. I can't see anything coming.
I've tried nelsons powder, bongela, calpol, nurofen, nada!!
Don't know what else to do to get the milk in!!
He has always been a fab sleeper and for around a month has slept 7pm-7.30am, now waking around 3, dummy in, then back off.
I am sure its his teeth, please help!!!

It could be a phase, my dd did the same. she went right off milk for a month or 2, but is now back drinking as much as she was.

It could also be his teeth, and if so that will settle too.

As long as he gets about 18 oz then he will be having enough nutrients, just add it where you can too, use his formula in porridge etc.

Perhaps offer smaller bottles more often, that worked for us, its a pain as you have to make up and sterilise bottles etc.

Thanks for that. Poor little man is really struggling to drink :( Managed to get 22.5oz down him yesterday between bottles and mixing with his solids.
Just feel so helpless as he'll have a whole bottle when he's really hungry but you can see it's hurting him.

Could you try him with a bit of ibuprofen an hour or so before a feed, see if that helps. I find ibuprofen much better than calpol for teething.

I've had him on nurofen and that worked a couple of days ago, but it said not to use for more than 24 hours so had to switch to calpol. Nelsons and bonjela seem to have worked yesterday :) Still not great, but he had more than usual