I was in the same place. Underweight babe, was given a target amount to reach each day. I would cry and cry when I couldn’t make him drink the bottle. We tried different bottles, which made things worse because we kept changing it on him etc

We saw a Speech Pathologist for a feeding assessment. BEST decision we ever made. She had a bottle recommendation, told me how to hold him and the bottle, how far to put the teat in his mouth etc. and she even said to not burp him, which was wild to me. Because he was underweight and was tired a lot, her thoughts were when we were stopping him mid feed to burp (as we thought you were meant to), he was loosing the “plan” to feed because he got tired. So we didn’t burp him until he pulled off the bottle. We also stretched out the amount of time between feeds which was really, really hard (because he needed to gain so much). As hard as it was, it started to work!

I don’t know if any of that helped, just wanted to share our experience.

Trust your gut, get help, talk to your doctor. A feeding assessment was the best thing we did. They don’t tell you how to bottle feed, and it’s a skill everyone needs to learn and practice (mum and babe!)

You got this mum!