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[quote=Anonymous]My son turned 5 months last week. He normally drinks 4 oz bottles of pumped breast milk every 2.5-3 hours during the day. He sleeps 7pm-7am with one dreamfeed bottle and usually is at 28 ozs per day on average.

Since last Tuesday, he is now refusing full bottles. He will drink 2 ozs and then whip his head away and refuse to take more. We are able to get him to take another ounce sometimes if we wait another 20 mins or so but that’s it. It’s like his brain is saying “you’re at 2 ozs stop now!”. He hasn’t taken one full 4 oz bottle since last Tuesday. He’s now been ending his days at 20-22 ozs max. Tonight, he’s only at 17.9 oz currently and will get a dream feed in an hour but if he does what he has been, he won’t take more then 2 ozs.

He does seem like he may be teething as he’s been non stop drooling, having excessive saliva, shoving his fists in his mouth and any toy he can. Could this be him teething and not wanting to eat as much or do babies sometimes go through a bottle strike? I’m nervous about the lack of daily ounces and he was a preemie also (6 weeks early) and I don’t want him to stall on his weight ( he was 15 lbs even when we weighed him last Monday). [/quote]

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