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  QUESTION: I need some advice please. My little girl is 3 months old, 6kg and happy alert and as normal as any other baba her age. She is not unwell, to my knowledge, and does not have reflux. BUT of late she flatly refuses to drink some of her bottles of formula. She pushes the teat out with her... tongue, bites the teat, turns her head from side to side to almost get away from it. I have tried feeding at longer stretches of time, feeding with little distraction, etc. Today she drank 150ml at 7:30am and only drank again at 1:30pm, then not much in the afternoon and not much again at 7:30pm...

QUESTION: My son is now 5 months and 2 weeks. I am exclusively breastfeeding still but am hitting some major walls. He will still only drink from 1 breast apart from going to  bed at 6pm. That is the only time he will have a good feed. I have tried both feeding every 2 hours and also to stretch him 4 hourly to see if he will drink better but it makes no difference. He wakes every 2 hours at night, and has never slept through. I tried to start solids 1 week ago, but it seems he hats it. Spits it out, screams if I force the spoon in...

QUESTION: I am the mother of a 9 week old baby boy. I have been expressing and freezing breastmilk as I have to go back to work in two months time. After attending the Baby Sense Seminar this past weekend and hearing how the milk changes over the months I decided to start defrosting the oldest “stock” and freezing the fresh milk so as to keep my frozen supply appropriate. My son is refusing the defrosted milk – from me and others. He still drinks fresh milk from a bottle so the problem does not lie with the bottle. ANSWER: It is great that you are looking to persist with breast milk...

Q: My little girl is now almost 5 months old.  I am still breastfeeding her during night and express milk during the day whilst I’m at work.  She started solids about 3 weeks ago and it is going very well.  I do however think that she drinks a little bit too much milk during the (she stays with my mother in law).  I store the expressed milk in sachets of 100ml of which she drinks 5 or 6 during the day.  She has a small bowl of Nestum at about 08h00 and then a veg (half a Purity bottle) at 13h00 and the other half at 17h30.   Then I breastfeed her between 18h30...

Q:My main question I was going to quiz you guys about was how on earth to get a 4.5 month old baby to take the bottle when they flatly refuse to!?? (Been trying on & off for well over a month)... & was starting to despair as I've desperately needed a bit of relief & time out. I think this will also help resolve my current state of mind! Regards,Robin A:Dear Robin A four month old who has never taken a bottle is a bit of a challenge, but the principle is to Try a few teats to ascertain which one he/she prefers. Start with the wide neck bottles, such as Avent or Nuk or Pigeon; then try...