Bottle fed (formula) 5 month old not finishing bottles

Oh my little one it’s been like that for almost 2 months! He drinks between 550-750ml a day if I’m lucky and most at night time! Its a victory if he drink a full bottle of 120. It’s been stressful but doctor is not worried at all! Right now decided to go with the flow.. been trying to give just every 4h to see if he drinks more consistently! Hopefully will pass soon for both of us!

I noticed our guy ate less when he was going through some rough teething days! If it continues longer than a week or so maybe ask your doctor to be safe :)

Yes! It can be a teething thing. Sometimes it works if you go into a dark room right before nap time when they’re getting sleepy to feed them the rest of the bottle. For us, we’ve experienced this with our 5 month old on and off since he was 3 months.

Thanks for your replies! I’m trying to go with the flow (and going to try harder haha).

I was thinking it could be teething so we’ll see if any little teeth sprout up soon! And I’ll definitely call our doctor if it gets drastically worse or his wet diapers and stuff change at all.

Thanks for the reassurance, it’s hard to not feel like you have no idea what you’re doing sometimes 😅

Oh trust me girl I definitely don’t know what I’m doing 😂 just going with the flow too haha!
Our guy started teething around 3 months and he is almost 6 months and still no sign of teeth 🙃

Oh jeez! They like to keep us on our toes lol

My little guy was doing that around 4 months for 2-3 weeks, he would get so distracted during his feed and only drink 1/2 or 2/3 of his bottle and ended up waking every 2.5-3.5hrs or so during the night. So I ended up waiting longer to around 3.5-4hrs between each feed.

Also he became picky with the bottle brand (nipple) and the milk temperature, so had to warm it back up and we would use that time to burp him. He was also picky with his bottle/nipple brand. Good idea to go to quieter/darker room as well. At one point I had to also rock/bounce him while singing ABC to him to get him to look at me instead of trying to tilt head in directions that are hard to keep the bottle in his mouth.

It was a phase and it went away eventually and now he’s 5 months old and back to feeding around every 3.5 hrs during and the daytime and sleeps through the night (9.5-10.5hrs straight). We had to slowly cut back on his nighttime feed amount to get him to this stage.