My Baby is now 8 months old. Since being born he has had no appetite really, and suffered from reflux. I ended up giving up directly breastfeeding and now exclusively express because he refused the breast so oftenly I ended up expressing more and a bottle he seemed to take better. He has never really gained alot of weight -- in the intial months of life gaining an average of 2-3 oz per week. He was on the 91st centile and is now on the 2nd....

I only manage to feed him when he is asleep. He will not feed when awake. And the difficulties in getting him to go to sleep mean I am pratically house bound. When he does feed he only takes a few ounces at a time, meaning during the night I try to get him to feed at least every hour till I go to bed at 1am, and then set an alarm for 3-hours later.... At least once every 2weeks he'll do an over 12 hour starve that has last over 24hours a few times before... where he takes no milk or solids, and it doesn't seem to bother him to much. And when he eventually does take food, he takes very little again. So doesn't compensate for the time period.

He has started solids, he does a mixture of baby-led and spoon-fed, and has done since he started at 6 months. These seem to keep his weight gain more steady. But he still doesn't eat an incredible amount and most mealtimes consist of him screaming and throwing his head back into his high chair...

I have cut out dairy and eggs from mine and his diet. He is on gaviscon for the reflux. I have seen a pediatrician who says that I should stop his milk feeds and up his calorie intake on solids, little and often. But I've tried this and he just won't take enough solids, plus due to how important I think his milk is, I was very reluctant. But apart from that his reaction was he's gaining and he seems happy enough in himself so it doesn't matter...

I'm so tired of fighting to get food down him. I just want answers and help....

Fiona, and Thomas. x

hello fiona,
my name is Alex and I am a dad of a pretty little thing called Catherine (Katarina).
I have been knocking my head out these days (months actually) because me and my wife have been having the exact same problem with our girl.
She is almost 3 months old now and she has no appetite at all.
Whenever she seems hungry, she starts to drink her formula nicely, but after only a few sips (sometimes its 10 and sometimes 30 ml), she actively refuses to eat anymore. She arches her back like in intense pain and starts crying if we try to force her to continue feeding.
she was putting very little weight over these months, so, we decide to wean her off and we transitioned first to expressed milk, and now it is formula mostly that we are giving her.
at first we thought it might be ear infection, then we thought it was reflux, and now, unfortunatelly, we realize that this is the chronic condition that we are going to struggle with for who knows how long.

i am wondering how your child is doing these days

thank you very much for reading and hope you get in touch with me!

p.s. excuse my english

I had this with my son whos 2, he had severe reflux and basically wouldnt suck his bottle from 6 months old...we had to syringe feed him fluids

but when he cut his 1st tooth at 10-11 months he went back on his bottle and now we cant get it off him