Hey,
My little girl is 8 weeks old today and she is constantly only drinking 1-3 ounces, she very rarely finishes her bottles and it is also usually 1-2 and half ounces she has.
I have tried her with a new teat, she has acid reflux so she has gaviscon too. Nothing really works, she doesn’t finish her bottles and she either goes quite a while without a bottle or she will want a bottle every 2ish hours.
Does anyone know why she is doing this? Or what I can do to fix it?
I weighed her the other day and she only weighed 9.4 and I have seen that she is supposed to weigh 11oz by now.
Please help! :) x
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Learn more about our guidelines.I mean she weighs 9.6 not 9.4

Have you spoken to your health visitor or doctor? My daughter is 8 weeks and drinks 4/5oz every 3/4 hours depending if she sleeps. She only weighs 9.3 last time she was weighed at 7 weeks.

I’d try different bottles. She might not like the style teat on the ones your using
we have two different ones with two different teats, the nanobebe ones and the mam bottles. she goes between both all the time because she likes one a lot and then won’t drink out of it so we switch bottles and she will have a few ounces for a little while then go back to not liking it again. no matter the bottle we can’t get her to drink more than 1-2 and half and occasionally 3 ounces xxx
no but we have her 8 week jabs in a few days and both of our 6-8 week checks so i will be mentioning it then. i am not too sure if i should call the doctor in the morning or if i should wait until then x

Is there a chance she doesn't like thr Formula? Have you tried a different one to see if that changes things?

When you say she should weigh 11lb do you mean if she wss following her centile line or for the 50th?
My little girl drinks roughly the same at nearly 11weeks old and follows the 2nd centile line she wss 8lb15oz a week ago bit every baby grows differently

I'd just mention it to the doctor before making any changes. Could be something or it could just be that she likes to drink little and often. A doctor could give you some more insight