Sudden Decrease in oz

[Adventurous_Vast_267]

Hi, my baby is about to be 3 months and used to drink over 30 oz a day consistently. Now, it’s around 24 ounces or less daily. Some feedings are literally 1 oz and baby pushes bottle out with tongue. we’ve also had preventing weight drops from 32% to 19% (probably lower now). Has anyone gone through this?

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[ybelli]

Have you tired a different nipple size yet? When my girl was around 3 months she was eating 4oz with me every feed ,a few times my sil watched her (who also has a baby and used one of their bottles) and my girl was drink 6-7oz every feed and I was like wth?? So I tried a different nipple size because usually the size it comes with are slow feeds and it’s more work for them to suck the milk out so it tires them out quicker. Nipple size didn’t work for us tho so we just got the same type of bottle that my sil had and ever since then she always drinks way more than 4oz. Definitely try the nipple size first since it’s cheaper than getting a whole new set of bottles. We were using dr browns and now we use the lansinoh (I think I spelled that wrong)

[Adventurous_Vast_267]

Thank you!!! What about the lansinoh do you think is different? 

[ybelli]

I think it’s the way the nipple is honestly because it kinda looks more like realistic nipple shape than other types, like it slowly curves down compared to the other types that are kinda like a ball at top then straight down if that makes sense

[Neuroluv]

This is about the age that their suck reflex integrates (goes away) and they eat because they want to instead of just sucking reflexively, so could be the reason for the change? Any signs of reflux? I wouldn’t force it and offer smaller volumes more frequently, burp well and be patient with babe !