won't drink all of his bottle...

[Kirst11]

I would say he just doesn't need as much for now, but it will only be another 2weeks or so and he'll be heading into his next growth spurt stage and he'll probably want more then. In my experience, its best not to worry about it, they will catch it up later at some point. If he were at the breast he would probably be doing the same thing, but you have no idea of how much/little he's taken kwim? So long as he's happy and content, sleeps reasonably well (as well as a baby can LOL) and does all the usual nappy things, then he would be fine with what he's getting. I know my 4 always went through stages where they just weren't interested and then they would have a week or so where you couldn't keep it up to them. Even now, Alister is just coming into another week where he devours everything in sight, but last week not so much and he wasn't finishing bottles etc.

This is exactly what I was going to say, so no point typing it again.

If he's happy, healthy, weeing, pooing.....it's all okay. He just doens't want it. And as for the chewing and playing with the nipple, he's just discovering different things that his tongue and teeth can do. Just be thankful that you're not bf when he does the chomp. Ha!

In a few weeks when he hits his next growth spurt you'll be complaining that his appetite is insatiable. I guarantee it.

Sounds happy and normal to me.

[1MOREPLZ]

thanks everyone for your replys i was abit worried but hubby was the one really worrying..

[Trillian]

Well you can tell him that everything is fine LOL! Its part of the way they learn too, they can't just keep eating can they? just like we can't - sometimes we need to eat a big meal and sometimes we just need a small one. Some babies will never drink a huge amount in one feed, but do perfectly fine - we are all different at metabolising our food and taking what we need nutritionally from it.