Five month old with bottle aversion

[u/EverythingBagelSzn]

My five month old has always been bottle fed, and has always used the Philips Avent natural bottles. She has CMPA and takes Similac Alimentum for it (has been on this formula for about 2-3 months with a lot of success with her CMPA).

For the past 3 or so weeks, she’s been having bottle aversion and it’s getting worse. She will take a sip of the bottle, then turn her head away. There are other times she sees the bottle coming and will turn her head. Our most successful times of feeding her are tricking her with sucking on a pacifier, then swapping it with her bottle. We wait to feed her until we know she’s truly hungry, scheduled feeds have been out the window, so it’s quite apparent she wants to eat when we try, but it’s a battle.

Before we resort to changing formulas, is there a different bottle brand/style you all here would recommend trying? Or have you had experience with your baby having milk or bottle aversion? It would be really disappointing to have to find another formula, since it took a lot of trial and error to find one that works for her CMPA.

[u/notrelevantatm]

My baby went through a phase for a couple of weeks around the same age of constantly pulling off the bottle arching her back, drinking 15mls at a time - I was using dr browns bottles and changed to the ones your using with no luck and changed back - eventually she just stopped although does it now sometimes I try not to pressure her if she is doing it or reoffer the bottle after an hour. I don’t really have any advice just wanted to share my experience Good luck mumma

[u/EverythingBagelSzn → u/notrelevantatm]

Thank you! Do you mind me asking how your baby was with night feeds during this time? My little one used to sleep through the night, but now she wakes up 1-2 times a night to eat.