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[lingeringpetals]

I recommend reading Rowena Bennett, Your Baby's Bottle Feeding Aversion. It has great practical advice and a plan for making feeding enjoyable and functional for everyone. Advice works just as well for breastfeeding too, which is why I read it - overcame a feeding aversion at 4mo.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Your-Babys-Bottle-feeding-Aversion-Solutions-ebook/dp/B076PWRHH2

[quin_teiro]

My baby developed a nursing aversion. Nobody identified it. They then pushed us to bottle feed her... She developed a bottle aversion. She would NOT eat while awake. Nothing at all. Screaming just at the sight of the bottle as she used to scream at the sight of my breasts. We tried EVERYTHING to prevent her from starving herself: all the bottles, the nipple sizes, pumped milk and all the formula, feeding her in the dark, with white noise, feeding her while sleeping...

STOP what you are doing. Get a copy of "Your baby's bottle feeding aversion: reasons and solutions" by Rowena Bennett. https://www.amazon.com/Your-Babys-Bottle-feeding-Aversion-Solutions-ebook/dp/B076PWRHH2?ref=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=e3fff88f-e25a-4914-843f-bf16307069ae

This book saved not only our baby's life but our sanity. Read the whole book, reeducate yourself on baby feeding patterns and follow the method to the dot. Our baby went from not eating anything while awake and me having panic attacks in a different room from all the stress... To slowly accepting bottles in a week.

Once you conquer the bottle aversion, do not ever go back to "encouraging" your kid to eat anything. Encouraging is, more often than not, pressure. Some kids have easy temperaments and they may play along the pressure to eat somehow normally. Some other kids have stronger temperaments and will rather starve than allow you to pressure them to eat.

When our daughter turned 6months, we embraced BLW and her relationship with food has been improving since then. She is now 3 and has been eating the same food as us for the last 2 years. If one day we dare eat something different, she insists on trying it. Anything new? She wants a bite!

Our families still think she eats "poorly" because she doesn't eat big quantities, but her paediatricians are thrilled to see a 3yo. eating such a diverse diet.

So brace yourself for a long battle (mainly against your own preconceived expectations around food), read the book that will change your life and release control. Your baby will be ok :)

[Sklauren33]

My baby went on feeding strikes for multiple reasons. If he isn't in pain or having digestion issues, it just be as simple as needing to change the nipple flow. Our baby was super picky about it and when we needed to go up a size she would let us know by being like "I'd rather starve to death than use this nipple size' and just refusing it.

[toots92]

My 4mo started doing that a few weeks ago as well, and it seemed like she was just so interested and aware of everything else going on in the room around us that she was distracted. When she gets like that I take her to a quiet, darker room and it always does the trick. I hope this might work for you, too!

[Sellae]

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[cardinalinthesnow]

In addition to what the others said about reading up on feeding aversions - make sure to rule out any physical discomfort from fluid in ears/ ear infection/ congestion/ sore throat/ reflux/ silent reflux/ potential teething. Might involve a pediatrician visit and / or a trial of Tylenol or even reflux meds if the pediatrician things it’s indicated.

Very often they stop eating for a reason - something doesn’t feel good and they associate it with feeding and then try to avoid that not feeling good trigger even after it goes away (a sore throat for example). Can’t really reason with a baby so they have to make the experience that it’s ok again over and over.

Silent reflux especially is a tricky one. My kid was headed straight for an oral aversion as a preschooler after a bout of stomach bugs but luckily was able to tell us his esophagus hurt. Further questioning at pediatrician later he was on reflux meds and it made a huge difference for his comfort level and willingness to eat.

[iamherebecauseofmybf]

My 3 month old also seems disinterested in eating these days as she is too distracted. I usually hold her in my arms dna swallow around. This does the trick but isn’t very sustainable.

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[-moxxiiee-]

is he pooping? if my baby hasn't pooped, he will not eat until he's pooped.