Baby not feeding well

Baby is 2mo tmr and has not been feeding well since yesterday. Her usual intake per feed typically ranges from 80ml to 100ml and 7 to 8 times per day. Daily intake about 600+ml. We have been bottle feeding her with pigeon bottle stage 2 nipple. She started to fuss and cry so we changed to stage 3. The first feed with stage 3 nipple went pretty well and she drank 70ml. However subsequent feeds the crying and rejecting bottle returned. We since tried Philip, Dr Brown's and Hegen and the same crying is still occuring. We have been preparing 60ml expressed bm to bottle feed her but she will not be able to drink contentedly and there will be alot of milk spilling out from her mouth during feeding. Tried to let her latch and she wants to but only suck 3 times and rest each time. To give context my milk supply is not high - am expressing average 70ml per pump #advicepls #pleasehelp

Suxian Lee

Mama bear of 1 sunny prince

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Maybe you are over feeding her or it could be just a phase. My 2mo daughter also had a phase where suddenly 1 fine day she just drank less milk and it continued for awhile, until I have to think of ways to wake her up and force her to drink (I direct latch). Even so, it was very difficult and she’ll reject/spit out alot of milk afterwards. It lasted abt a week+ then after that was ok again. Could be some developmental thing that they are going through, so perhaps just observe abit longer. Actually I read that breastfed babies are unlikely to be over fed, so perhaps if u can, just let her latch and drink, then no need to worry how much she’s drinking and if it’s enough, as long as she’s contented after feeding and gaining weight well.

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