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Need feeding help!
I have been having the hardest time with my son the last week... he has reflux and I have been wondering if this is the cause but he never used to be like this...
basically he is fine before he starts eating, we change his diaper and get settled down to feed him, put the bottle in his mouth and he starts SCREAMING and turning bright pink and crying big tears and his whole body tenses up and he waves his arms. If I take the bottle out and hold him he'll calm down but put the bottle back in and it starts all over again.
At first we thought (and the pediatrician thought) that it was teething but this seems way too much to be that. It makes me so sad to watch and I don't know what to do! He used to get like this when we burped him (due to the reflux) but he was never like this just from trying to give him a bottle.
Anyone have any idea what could be causing this? He has an ear infection but I didn't know if it's possible that could make him not want to eat?
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Re: Need feeding help!
I was thinking about this in bed last night... does it bother him to lay down? Maybe it is his earache when you lay him back to feed, lay him down = more pressure?
We're teething too but crying usually stops when the bottle goes in.
GL!
My daughter went through a phase like this that lasted about 4 weeks. ?We never found out what caused it, but we found two things that helped a bit:
1 - feeding her while rocking (I thought that she would get seasick from the rocking, but it seemed to distract her)
2 - letting her suck on a paci until she was drowsy and calm, then switching the paci for a bottle
Good luck .... I know how frustrating it is when they are hard to feed.?
The sucking could cause pressure in the eardrum.
Have you switched formula recently?
Maybe they have outgrown the slow flow nipple, and need a faster stream. Sometimes they suck too hard to get the milk out and could be frustrating, try a faster flow nipple.
Hmm, no other advice, sorry. Good luck!
Thanks for all the suggestions ladies!
I'm pretty sure it's the earache that's causing the trouble but I'm going to call the doctor again this morning. We already tried doing a faster flow nipple but that didn't really seem to make a difference. We are using the same old formula and the only thing that seems to help to get him to eat at all is shaking a rattle in front of him to distract him..It's the saddest thing I've ever seen so I really hope he gets better soon!!