My son of almost 5 months is refusing to finish his bottles without a struggle My son, who is almost 5 months, has begun to fight his bottles over the past week, except for the one given at 11pm. He takes 4-5ozs and then stops for winding [which he initiates]. I then struggle to get him going again. He goes rigid, screams, pushes the teat out with his tongue and pushes the bottle away with his hands. Eventually he will take it, but it takes about an hour. He never cries for his bottle anymore and he never seems hungry, not even for his bottle in the morning. I tried…

My son of almost 6 months has a very low milk intake by day which means he feeds on demand at night For over two months my son of almost 6 months has put up a fight with his milk and taken it less and less willingly. In the past week I have had him at hospital as he arches his back and screams and only ever drinks his whole bottle, if that, at night around 7pm. Since he was two and a half months he started sleeping through the night. In the past three months he has started stirring in the night. Now he wakes nearly every hour shouting…

How can I get my 4mth daughter to take better feeds especially when we are out, now her reflux is being controlled? From birth my daughter was always very good at feeding and would finish every bottle, until she got to approx 10 weeks when she started to take less and less, and then would start to scream, shake her head and flatly refuse to take the bottle, her body would go stiff; eventually after this performance at every feed she may take a couple of ounces. But when offered water from the same type of bottle with the same teat she would drink this immediately but the moment we…

My daughter of 5.5mths has taken to solids well but it is a struggle to get her to take 20ozs of milk in a day Until six weeks of age my daughter was fed with expressed breast milk. This was due to latching problems in the early days as a result of early medical problems. My supply began to dwindle and by 11 weeks my daughter was fully formula fed. Once the change from breast milk to formula began to take place my daughter became a fussy bottle feeder and had problems with constipation. Due to this condition I was advised to switch formulas twice as lactose intolerance and colic…

How can I get my 5mth daughter to feed better in the day and less at night? I am new to your techniques and am a bit desperate for help! My daughter is just turning 5 months old. At 3 months, she would have 5 bottles (6-8.5 oz), approx. 3.5 hours apart during the day, and was sleeping for a good 10 hour stretch between feeds at night (usually 8pm until 6.30ish). Her weight is now around 16lb 7oz. At 6 weeks, she was diagnosed with acid reflux and has been on Infant Gaviscon ever since. We have tried reducing the doses recently – but found that the reflux returned…

My 4mth daughter is back to having 6 feeds a day. How can I stop this happening? My 4mth daughter slept from 10.30pm until 7.30am at eight weeks of age and by 3 months we were able to drop the 10.30pm feed so she was sleeping from 7pm until 7.30pm which was wonderful. She then got a cold and started waking during the night between 3-5am. She could only be settled with a feed. As this showed no sign of stopping I decided to start with the 10.30 feed again. She only takes 2oz at this time and is still waking during the night. I want to try and leave…

Since being on antibiotics my 3 month daughter’s milk intake has dropped and she is reluctant to feed My 3 month old daughter was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection 2.5 weeks ago and had to take antibiotics (Augmentin) for 1 week. During that week, her appetite reduced dramatically. She used to take 5.5oz each meal and only took 2-3oz while she was on antibiotics. She has since recovered and it’s been 1.5 weeks since her last dose of antibiotics but not only has her appetite not returned to normal, it has reduced even further. Now, she would only take 2oz and cries and cries. I have tried splitting her…

I want to use the routine but my 16 week baby cries during feeding and takes too little Please help me with a problem that your books don’t seem to address and it seems nobody can solve, including health visitors. I have a lovely baby boy who is 16 weeks and only drinks 17-20oz of milk per day. He was born at 38wks – 6lb 7oz and is an Indian baby. He was breastfed for the first 8 weeks but developed colic and mouth thrush at around 4 weeks so, being inexperienced, I put him on the bottle. He was only feeding for 5-6mins every 2-3hrs on the breast and…

At 14 weeks my daughter has begun to need an early morning feed again My daughter Niamh, who is now 14-weeks-old, was following the routines both with sleeping and feeding until just over 12 weeks. She then began waking again and needing a feed at 3/4am having slept through previously. I fed her for three nights then managed to settle her with water for a few nights but she is demanding a feed again, taking 5ozs which means her daytime routine is now not so good. She seems unwilling to settle for her daytime naps at all, and often wakes again after 20 minutes. She is then too tired to…

My 3 month baby is distraught during her bath time. Should I split the 5/6pm feed? Should I split the 6.15pm feed so my daughter gets a proportion of it at 5.15pm, as she becomes very grumpy at around 5.50pm(bath time) then starts whinging and crying non-stop until she becomes hysterical at 6.10pm! She was born with clubbed feet and wears boots with a bar for 23 out of 24 hours a day. They come off at 5.10pm for an hour (to have a bath and exercise) and I don’t know whether she is getting hysterical prior to them being put back on or whether I’m being ridiculous and she’s…