I'm getting a little worried about my littlest munchkin and I really hope that someone out there has some advise for me.I don't think Ryker is getting enough to eat, but not for lack of trying. When he nurses he feeds for about 3 or 4 minutes before he is totally agitated...like he's not getting enough. He is completely done within 8 minutes, but still acts like he is hungry.
We started feeding him rice cereal a little more than a week ago. Usually we can get him to swallow a few spoonfuls before he is completely upset. He has eaten all 5 Tbs twice now.
He will not take a bottle...my milk or formula.
He wants to eat every 3 hours during the day and gets up on average every 2-3 hours at night.
What is going on? I haven't noticed any teething. He doesn't appear to be sick. He's a very happy baby most of the time, but the last week and a half have been very frustrating. I really think he is just hungry because he's not getting enough to eat. How do I convince him that the bottle is a source of food?
I weighed him this morning. It showed him weighing 11 pounds 8 ounces....only a 2 ounce gain in the last 6 weeks.
I really believe the answer is in the bottle. Jaxon went through a similar episode at 9 months (not sleeping and being really frustrated when nursing) and when I started feeding him straight formula the problems all stopped. I was working full-time so he had zero issues with a bottle.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated!
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I really don't have any advice, but Griffin did the same thing around 7 months. My milk dried up and I was forced to give him a bottle. (which he was not happy about) It took a few weeks of continually trying the bottle and a lot of screaming . . . and he finally gave in! Good Luck!
I was thinking Wyatt did a smiliar thing but that is when he was spitting up all the time too. The doctor told us if we added a little bit of dark karo syrup into his bottle to make it a little sweeter and he would probably drink it. You might try that. We have a whole bottle of it if you want it.
You might try switching the nipple on the bottle to a different style. All of my kids hated the traditional bottle nipple when I switched from nursing. Switching it made their life and mine a lot easier!
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