Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone here can help me as no-one so far has any answers and I'm at my wit's end!

My DS is 10 weeks old and now exclusively bottle fed. I wasn't able to sustain Breast feeding due to supply issues.

Once I started bottle feeding he would always feed every 3-4 hours. Then about 6 weeks ago we noticed he would get a bit cranky half way through his bottle and pull off. I found if I gave him a short break he would eventually take the rest of his bottle. The pattern was always the same, drink 60ml of a 140ml bottle then stop and have a break then (usually) drink the rest or most of it.

The last 3 weeks have been terrible. Now he pulls away and screams as if in pain. He'll cough and splutter milk out if I try and give him more, even after a break. He continually pushes out the bottle and refuses anymore. Now I'm lucky if he takes 60-80ml total each feed (8 feeds a day). Today has been the worst and he's only been having 50ml each feed. What's worse is that his sleeps have been deteriorating particularly through the day and sometimes he'll sleep for only 20mins during the day. He's better at night generally, but lately even his night sleeps are getting worse.

I've tried:

1. Frequent winding (every 30ml) - this helped somewhat, but still not nearly enough.
2. Added Infacol to his bottles - this helped a little initially, but again only a little. Now it has no effect.
3. Given him Infants friend before each bottle - results as per infacol
4. Feeding him upright - no real change
5. Changing teat from newborn to 3-month - a slight improvement but now back to the same old thing

In desperation I went to the doctor to see if he maybe had silent reflux or colic - or even both. she ruled out all of these and suggested going to an even faster flow teat (6-month) and trying a different formula - he's currently on Nan HA gold. I've given him a few bottles of the S26 Gold but that hasn't done anything. I'm not convinced it is the teat.

I'm getting really desperate as he's having less and less and sleeping less and less. He appears to be in pain and it is breaking my heart.

I don't know what to do now. Please help me!!