Hi all
Thank you in advance for your help! I am a first time mum to a gorgeous baby girl. She's been formula fed on aptamil since birth. She was taking about 100-140ml 2.5-3 hourly for the past 2 weeks but over tha past 5 days, her intake has reduced to 100ml every 3 hours at a push! She falls asleep after about 80 ml and it takes an hour to finish the bottle. She's had some reflux so I hold her up for half an hour after feeds and she has a wedge pillow in her cot (gavisvon didn't help and I'm not keen on ranitidine). We thought she had wind so tried infacol - spat in out each time in a spectacular fashion and screamed! She won't tolerate gripe water either. She gets cranky in the evenings but not colic cranky. She sleeps 6 hours with no feeds overnight most nights - when she wakes for nappy changes she refuses the bottle.
We use dr browns bottles with level 1 teats and she has leaking from the sides of her mouth with these. Health visitor suggested going up to level 2 teats but she jokes with the faster flow. I've ordered some boots vari flow teats as they fit the dr browns bottles.
She's fallen off the 50th centile for weight but not crossed a centile.
I'm really worried about what to do! Should I feed her more often but little amounts as she spits up or should I go longer and give her more feed?? She was 3.49 kg at birth and is 4.5 kg now.
Thank you and sorry for the long post xx
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7 week old feeding nightmare - help!
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Pinkslipper123 · 01/08/2014 16:40
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