I am confused with my 4 month old daughter's feeding

[Natheen]

My 4 month daughter has GERD since she was three days old. She has always been a fussy drinker. But I got her to drink enough to put on good weight. She is in the 75th percentile and weighs 14.8 llbs. But for the past few weeks, there's days where she would not drink milk, she would refuse it and I have to force feed her to drink about 17 oz by waking up few times during the night. However there's days where she would drink fine and would drink about 25 oz. My daughter never exceeded 20-25 oz. Anybody come across similar situations? Is she afraid to drink milk knowing it would cause her pain? Then why does she drink fine one day and not the other and why did this start just few weeks ago. We changed her medication for reflux and it was better and now its going back to her not drinking properly.

Be a little careful about feeding at night unless she is propped up afterwards as you will have probably found out by now that the milk is more likely to come back up lying flat.
Is she unhappy and distressed on the days when she isn't taking her milk properly or does she simply not want it?
I'd be inclined to keep a record of all of her feeds for a week..amounts and times and not force a feed if she really doesn't want it. Go to baby clinic and have her weighed and go back after the week for a proper re weigh and take with you your record.You will then see if she is regulating herself or losing weight and then can take it from there with your HV or GP. Just checking...she doesn't drink anything other than milk does she..water?

I'd repost this in breast and bottle feeding - you're likely to get more responses there.