Recently Logan has been acting really weird with his bottle.
His bedtime feed last night was a nightmare! Everytime i put the bottle near him he would cry until i took it away, thought it could have been his teeth hurting so i put some calgel on his teeth and tried again (which has worked in the past) but same thing happened, cried and wriggled away until i took it away, where i tried so hard to get him to feed i think it may have traumatised him because he got so upset that he was doing the worst cry he's ever done
I was getting stressed because i didn't know what was wrong, which was probably upsetting Logan more. In the end OH took him downstairs to settle him, and after playing with his toys he stopped crying.
I managed to finally get him to take his bottle about an hour later and he drank 6oz of the 8oz i made...
He then slept 10 hours, woke at 8:30am and played in bed with us for half hour then we got up. Made him a bottle at 9am tried to give it to him and the same thing happened except this time OH noticed that he was staring at my biscuits on the table and suggested as a joke that maybe he wants them instead, i gave Logan one of the biscuits to see what he would do and he started eating it straight away! I took it off him and gave him his bottle and he drank 5oz in one go and then got fussy again, i gave him another hold of the biscuit and then he drank another 4oz then left the last oz.
We've already started weaning him with porridge, which he has twice a day and he has 4 bottles a day.
OH has suggested that when we eat we should give him a little of what we're eating, which i'm doing at 6 months. But im really worried that he'll drop more bottles. Its a struggle as it is to get him to take a bottle!!
Do you think the refusal of the bottle is because he wants more solids?
Maybe his teeth are hurting? He's not fussy any other time of the day and is sleeping fine
He has reflux which has been loads better since we started him on porridge, maybe the pain has put him off bottles?
It doesnt make sense to me that he's refusing his first bottle of the day because i KNOW he's hungry because i can hear his belly rumbling!
I dont know what to do, im so worried that he's not getting enough nutrients because he's going more and more off his milk. I dont want to put him on more solids because i dont want him to drop more milk...but then i dont want him to starve because im refusing to give him solids
I've tried giving him a sippy cup because when he DOES take his bottle he tries to hold it himself and ends up bashing it out his mouth, then gets frustrated, but he doesnt know how to use the sippy cup and just hits stuff with it...
Any one got any advice? Has your baby gone through this phase?
His bedtime feed last night was a nightmare! Everytime i put the bottle near him he would cry until i took it away, thought it could have been his teeth hurting so i put some calgel on his teeth and tried again (which has worked in the past) but same thing happened, cried and wriggled away until i took it away, where i tried so hard to get him to feed i think it may have traumatised him because he got so upset that he was doing the worst cry he's ever done
I was getting stressed because i didn't know what was wrong, which was probably upsetting Logan more. In the end OH took him downstairs to settle him, and after playing with his toys he stopped crying.
I managed to finally get him to take his bottle about an hour later and he drank 6oz of the 8oz i made...
He then slept 10 hours, woke at 8:30am and played in bed with us for half hour then we got up. Made him a bottle at 9am tried to give it to him and the same thing happened except this time OH noticed that he was staring at my biscuits on the table and suggested as a joke that maybe he wants them instead, i gave Logan one of the biscuits to see what he would do and he started eating it straight away! I took it off him and gave him his bottle and he drank 5oz in one go and then got fussy again, i gave him another hold of the biscuit and then he drank another 4oz then left the last oz.
We've already started weaning him with porridge, which he has twice a day and he has 4 bottles a day.
OH has suggested that when we eat we should give him a little of what we're eating, which i'm doing at 6 months. But im really worried that he'll drop more bottles. Its a struggle as it is to get him to take a bottle!!
Do you think the refusal of the bottle is because he wants more solids?
Maybe his teeth are hurting? He's not fussy any other time of the day and is sleeping fine
He has reflux which has been loads better since we started him on porridge, maybe the pain has put him off bottles?
It doesnt make sense to me that he's refusing his first bottle of the day because i KNOW he's hungry because i can hear his belly rumbling!
I dont know what to do, im so worried that he's not getting enough nutrients because he's going more and more off his milk. I dont want to put him on more solids because i dont want him to drop more milk...but then i dont want him to starve because im refusing to give him solids
I've tried giving him a sippy cup because when he DOES take his bottle he tries to hold it himself and ends up bashing it out his mouth, then gets frustrated, but he doesnt know how to use the sippy cup and just hits stuff with it...
Any one got any advice? Has your baby gone through this phase?
