I primarily breastfeed my three month old, but we introduced our little one to a bottle early on and he was able to drink from it pretty much right away with no issue. However, the past two weeks, he has had trouble drinking from the bottle. He takes the nipple in his mouth and starts drinking but then makes noises as if he's getting too much and is overwhelmed, spits out the nipple, throws his head from side to side, takes the nipple again, spits it back out, and so on, hardly drinking anything in the process. We are using the exact same slow flow nipple and bottle and exact same formula (or pumped breastmilk) and same temperature and he previously had no issue. Not sure what's going on. Anyone else's baby suddenly having issues with taking a bottle? I'm concerned as he's supposed to start daycare in a month and they will need to give him bottles. It's also not ideal right now that I can't rely on my husband or babysitter being able to give him a bottle. Any ideas for what could help him? I already ordered a different kind of bottle in hopes a change in brand might fix it. Could a different kind of formula perhaps work better?
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My 3 month old son did the same thing for a while usually when he was taking in too much air or needed to burp due to the bottle nipple being too small as he’s getting bigger and they tend to drink a bit more and faster But; the advice I’d give you is to try to go from a #1 nipple (newborn) to a medium flow (#2 nipple,) maybe he isn’t getting enough milk and is inhaling too much air or needs a burp? Has he used the bathroom properly both pee and poop? If so it may be a digestive problem that may need to bring to either his or a kid pediatrician to roll out what the problem and the solution to it.

The wide evenflo balance bottles have worked really well for me!
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