Baby hates milk

Sorry youre going through such a rough time

I guess just continue to let him have 10 or 20mls throughout the day and at least he'll be getting in his liquids.
Someone once told me to put a few drops of vanilla essence into the formula to get baby to drink it, and it definitely worked for me!

Could definitely be other ailments upsetting him also, but I presume if you've seen a paed he has ruled out these things.

Sounds like you're on the right track by going to see specialists.
Some babies with severe reflux problems require feeding tubes just to make sure they are getting food. Hopefully it doesnt get that way, but if he really does have health issues it may be the only way for now.

Poor baby. And poor mommy

HUGS

Firstly I doubt that he hates milk. It sounds similar to baby I looked after (also severe reflux). One day during nursing, she vomited up a lot of milk and I hurt her. From then the refused to nurse. She was starving but scared that it would hurt her again, it didn't matter how we offered milk, until we tried a cup and after a few days she settled again and we could re-introduce the bottle. Do you think something similar cold have happened to your little man?

Try feeding him from a cup or teaspoon. Also feed him almost sitting upright on your lap rather than lying down. And for this weekend, offer him smaller feeds more often. So if he's only taking 30ml, then offer him 30 - 40ml every 1-2 hours. If he's not been drinking well he might be dehydrated so do offer paediatric rehydrate on a teaspoon between feeds.

It sounds like you are exhausted and really need a break. Is there no-one who can step in to help you? Even a nanny from an agency for a day?

Don't rule out an ear infection because sucking on a bottle would be very painful for a little one with an ear infection. Also a sore throat (perhaps burned by reflux)

The sugar is not ideal, but if you find that it really helps and baby really is constipated (it often happens on some formulas) then maybe one bottle a day.

And perhaps stick to one formula for a while, he might just need some time to adjust to the different taste.


HUGS

My son is 12 weeks old and for about 4 weeks we have been struggling to find a formula he will drink. (I was pumping before so he got EBM but now I've stopped). He use to easily drink 120-150ml of EBM every 3 hours. Now I cant get him to drink more than 60ml formula every 4 hours.

I have tried 7 different formulas. He has very bad reflux and I do all the things like bed elevated on one side, hold upright after feed, rice cereal in bottle etc etc etc. The anti reflux formula makes him vomit. Cow milk based formula gives him diarrhoea so he is on soy (we will be doing allergy tests soon). He drank the soy happily for about 4 days (120-150ml) and now all of a sudden is refusing more than 30ml. He screams hysterically. I can see he's hungry as he anxiously tries to get the bottle, but once he starts drinking, he screeches. I am seeing a specialist on Monday (gastro intestinal doc). Paed told me to give rehydrate in the meantime so he doesnt dehydrate.

Have any other moms experienced something like this? Even when I give him EBM now he screams. Any advice to get me through the weekend?
I'm literally losing my mind and have now been diagnosed with PND. It easily takes me 45 minutes to get him to drink the 60ml and it's exhausting me.

I am going to try the rehydrate tomorrow and see if he screams with that. But its as though he literally hates milk. I gave him prune juice as he is constipated (well not at the moment...but a couple of days ago - so this is not why he refuses to drink...) and he drank that happily.

Is there any harm in adding sugar to formula? (other than the fact it will make him fat). I know before I was putting a teaspoon of brown sugar into his bottles to prevent constipation and he drank quite well. When I stopped the sugar it took a few days for him to drink well again. So perhaps that's a solution until Monday? Any input?