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Hi all,

I’m in need of some help/advice. My little boy has suddenly stopped drinking his milk as he used to. He is 12 weeks old and was drinking 5oz, 6 times a day using SMA pro formula. We tried to up his ounces to 6 but he wasn’t finishing his bottles so went back down to 5. But now he’s hardly drinking at all, he’s not finishing his bottles and when he is drinking he’s spitting it back out, moving his head side to side and is sometimes crying. I’m a first time mom so this is all new to me and I don’t know what to do. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you

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Have you tried moving up a teat size ?Xxx

yes he’s gone from a 1 to a 2 xx

it’s worrying isn’t it!

Same is happening to my little one (11 weeks today) , GP said it could be reflux but gaviscon / infacol hasn’t made a difference. Then you end up going down a rabbit hole on Google finding all these other crazy reasons as to why this might be!! He is also on the 9th percentile so that doesn’t help either him being on the smaller side !

have you tired upping the teat ? We tried this yesterday, changed to Mam bottles teat size 2, and oh my days he is like a new boy! No more fussing and he almost enjoys his formula now ! Could give it a go if you haven’t already ? He’s nearly over his daily average amount and we’ve still got two more feeds to go ! X

Did you ever figure out why this was? My baby is doing the exact same and I’m not sure why x

my boy just grew out of it, perseverance! He was going through a growth spurt at the time so I just put it down to that, not entirely helpful I know! Xx

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