Dropping a bottle or out of routine?

Hi, I’m not looking for medical advice, I’m just looking to see if this is all normal for a baby, she’s my first so I have no idea! We’re currently on holiday in the UK with my 9 month old. Since day 2, she’s dropped her bedtime bottle of formula. She absolutely will not have it, she refuses to put the bottle in her mouth and most often gags if we try to do so. She shakes her head and turns away from the bottle and refuses to eat it, then she’ll just go straight back to sleep (as she’s woken up for this feed) and will sleep through until the morning. At first we thought it was just her getting used to a new place, new smell etc. but it’s been 3 bedtime feeds now that she’s refused but she’ll sleep happily without it until the morning after spending the first night of the holiday awake every 30 mins. She has 2 meals a day, but she doesn’t eat much at all still even though we’ve been weaning for over 2 months. Is she just naturally dropping a bottle? She was on 4x bottles a day but now just 3, morning, lunchtime and evening. She’s also not drinking a full bottle like she used to, she’s leaving anywhere between one ounce and 5 ounces a bottle but will sometimes randomly have a full bottle. Thanks in advance!
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I could have written this myself!! 8 months, suddenly down to 3-4 bottles a day and not finishing them. Hoping it's just the transition to solids

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Could she be ready for some teeth coming in? The amount of milk my LO was taking literally changed overnight at 10 months she went from 4 bottles a day to 3 and wasn’t finishing any of them. After about a week of this two teeth started to push through. She never went back to 4 bottles after that but did start to finish the 3 she was having again x

@Joanna McKee she’s recently had her two top front teeth come through. Not seen any others yet but she usually eats as normal when she’s teething except for some extra fussiness

@Veronica fingers crossed it’s just the solids. It’s so frustrating and worrying not knowing what it is

Don't know if it's related but turns out my LO is sick ☹️ had a temperature last night, runny nose and sounds plegmy

@Veronica mine is quite congested at the moment but otherwise fine in herself so we’re not sure if she’s got a cold or if it’s a change in temp/location as we’re by the sea and usually quite inland. X

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