I am at my wits end!
From day one my every feed has been a nightmare. My lo just hates milk! We have tried several different formulas and she is now on prescription milk for a possible allergy but i do not believe she really has an allergy. I feel like we are being fobbed off by the HV & dietician as they don't know what else to suggest! She has had no tests to confirm any allergy.
We are at the point now where i have even tried getting my lo to take the milk from a sippy cup (she is 4 months) and even from a spoon. When the bottle comes in sight she gets aggitated and when the teat hits her lips she goes nuts! In an average feed she takes 3-4 oz which is not nearly enough.
In desperation we introduced her to solids at 16wks and she loves everything from a spoon (hence why i tried to feed her milk from one - daft i know!) I am happy she likes her purees but am still stressing about how to get her to take her milk.
It doesn't help that every other mum i have talked to goes on & on about how great their baby takes their milk and how big they are getting when obviously my lo is not growing very well at all!
Sorry for the rant!!

i had to write although my son who is now 1 loved his bottle ne now refuses to have milk at all i have to give him cereal, rice pudding i give it to him in his food, he has done this since he was 8 months old he got the taste for food and that was milk out the window, have you tried to give it in food i dont know how else you could try?

Thanks for the reply.

I am giving my lo baby rice, cereal & adding milk to her purees so she is getting a little milk that way. I just wish i could get her to take more, she only put on 2oz last week which is terrible and my HV is still telling me it's not a big deal!!

Nooo! Millie hated milk. She was breastfed so it was a bit different but she always had to be reminded/persuaded to feed, more or less from birth. She took really well to her solids and in the end weaned herself off milk completely at 10 1/2 months. If I tried to feed her she bit me and if we tried to give her any sort of milk from a cup (she never had a bottle) she would just flip out. Fortunately for us she was old enough to just drop the milk and we made it up in her diet. Sorry I don't have any useful advice but just wanted you to know you weren't the only one.
xx

I am soooo glad I found this post! My 5 month old son is a NIGHTMARE with his bottle! All was going well until he was 5 weeks old and for some reason things just turned. He got so bad that he was in hospital for a week around 8 weeks old. They diagnosed gastric reflux which he is now on medication for but I am not convinced this is what it was. His target was to have 3oz milk before they discharged him, he was taking 2 1/2 oz feeds so they where happy with that. He was also put on SMA High Energy ( higher calorie) as hed started loosing weight. He is still on the milk and his feeds are roughly 2-4oz feeds. He will sometimes scream and scream and feeding time can be really really hard. We tried everything, new bottles, new teats etc!! If you are not happy, keep taking your baby back to the doctors. they are not the ones who have to try to get the food down!! It is really good that your baby is taking to weaning well, my son also screams when we try that so it literally is a battle on all fronts here. You can mix the milk in the foods, or find other ways for her to get her calcium eg fromage frai etc. Aslong as baby is eating enough and having some fluids including milk, try not to stress yourself out too much. it may be that baby just hates the milk and always will.. im starting to believe that my baby does!!!
Hope to keep in touch to see how you are doing and all the luck in the world from someone in the same boat!
x

I'm so sorry you are going through this too, it's a nightmare!
Since my last post my lo had improved with the milk slightly but now it's going down hill again. This past week she has been taking around 5 oz in the morning, then every other bottle throught the day she starts to refuse it after around 1oz! I have been having to load up her solids with lots of milk (very messy) but at least this way i get a few more ounces down her.
We initially went to see the dietician at the start of july and were told to come back in a month. We have only now received a follow up appointment for the end of september!!! Don't they realise that at this age a few months is a long time in their little lifes?
I can't help getting stressed out by the centile charts. My lo's weight is only just above the 2nd centile but her head circ and length are above the 50th. Surely it can't be good for her weight to be so much lower??
As usual HV is not too interested.
I am going to get some of the little fromage frais pots tomorrow, thanks for the tip!
I hope things improve for you! Let me know how you get on.

Hi, I'm having a similar problem with my 4 1/2 month old boy. He takes 2-3 ozs every 4 hours and even then I sometimes have t force it down...gets very tiring and causes me no end of upset.
He seems healthy enough, wanting to stand and is smiling alot (until milk time). We've started him on baby cereals and rice but even that sometimes he doesn't want. I don't know whether its that he doesn't like his milk or just doesn't need as much as they say he should at his age.
He also seems to be teething...but surely its even more important for him to take calcium. He won't even have milk or juice...
I'm at my wits end