Baby hates milk

I know he is a little young, but maybe try giving it to him in a sippy cup? if its the bottle he hates. Or try a very different looking bottle?

Meags wrote:

2KM thats exactly what the paed in france has said...that he may not even be suffering from reflux and all those symptoms could be from the allergy. so we'll see!

chris - the formula they have given me is one I did try in USA that he refused (probably due to the taste since its apparently horrid). but now he has no choice as its the only one he can drink. its based on rice!
looking forward to starting solids though...hope it'll be better than this! for now i keep adding rice cereal to his bottles so he gets enough calories since he doesnt take in enough milk.
the first bottle went terribly. he was very upset. after 2 hours he was so hungry he drank 50ml but cried the whole time. i'm waiting for him to wake again for the next feed and have prepared the milk with half a teaspoon of sugar so we'll see if that makes any difference.

what i find bizarre is that at night he doesnt cry....he just drinks. its his daytime bottles that are TORTURE. ok fine at night he never finishes a bottle...but he often drinks more than he would drink in the day. i have tried to take him to a dark quiet room during the day but it doesnt work. anyone got any ideas on why he could be drinking well at night but not in the day?

Try feeding him whilst he's napping or straight after his nap so he's still half asleep? It could be more of an aversion / fear of the bottle than the taste now?

HUGS

2KM thats exactly what the paed in france has said...that he may not even be suffering from reflux and all those symptoms could be from the allergy. so we'll see!

chris - the formula they have given me is one I did try in USA that he refused (probably due to the taste since its apparently horrid). but now he has no choice as its the only one he can drink. its based on rice!
looking forward to starting solids though...hope it'll be better than this! for now i keep adding rice cereal to his bottles so he gets enough calories since he doesnt take in enough milk.
the first bottle went terribly. he was very upset. after 2 hours he was so hungry he drank 50ml but cried the whole time. i'm waiting for him to wake again for the next feed and have prepared the milk with half a teaspoon of sugar so we'll see if that makes any difference.

what i find bizarre is that at night he doesnt cry....he just drinks. its his daytime bottles that are TORTURE. ok fine at night he never finishes a bottle...but he often drinks more than he would drink in the day. i have tried to take him to a dark quiet room during the day but it doesnt work. anyone got any ideas on why he could be drinking well at night but not in the day?

Shame Meags, just saw your post now.

A friend of mine's lb also didnt drink milk, she didnt do all the tests, but she also had tried like 8 different formula's and he would drink none of them, she even tried adding the sugar and it did not help. She was back and forth to the paed, eventually the paed advised her to start him on solids as that was the only was he was to pick up weight, so startign a 2 month old baby on solids is not advisable, but it was when her son wasnt picking up weight and it helped.

What have they advised you to do now going forth? Are there other formulas you can try?

So glad you got some clarity on the cause for your and Matt's ordeal! Now things can only get better! xx

Ai Meags, wish so you didn't have to go through all this trauma to find that out. Most babies that are allergic to cows milk are also allergic to Soya. My Son is or was at that stage (Seems at two to have outgrown it mostly) He was on a Lactose free formula and straight after that his severe reflux went away. I went through much the same as you have, the PND also with my first child with similar problems only then Soya solved the issues. Automatically tried it with my son and it ended up making his poor little throat so raw and inflamed with all the reflux that the pead diagnosed him and told us to get onto lactose free. Sure from now on things will go much better for you. You may need to give some in a cup for a while as he has probably built up a bit of a fear for the bottle teat. Just until his body starts to feel better. Strongs to you and to Matt.

hi

well I'm glad I listened to my own instincts and did the tests....Matt is allergic to cow milk and soy milk