Refusal

It seems like no matter how laid back I try to be, something always requires me to obsess and problem solve like some sort of scientific detective. Clark had nipple confusion and was refusing bottles early on, but he got over it pretty quickly once he started daycare. When he started refusing bottles again, we figured it was because he was too congested. We started using saline drops in his nose and it helped. He started refusing bottles again and I figured it might be that the nipples we were using were too slow flowing, so we bought faster flow nipples and that seemed to help. After spending 2-weeks on winter vacation with his mama, he started refusing bottles again and we figured he was just used to me and he might be teething. We changed bottles again, and well... at least he wasn't letting it upset him.

He definitely hasn't been wanting to eat at daycare mid-morning, but by afternoon he typically comes around and finishes off at least one 5 oz bottle. So, today I decided to send him to school with two 7 oz bottles instead of three 5 oz bottles and asked them to feed him every 4 hours instead of every 3 hours and... it worked! He took just about all of it. Will it work again tomorrow? Who knows. Pretty soon he'll get used to eating solid food, he'll be able to take sippy cups and he won't need bottles at all anymore. But for now, I just have to keep on problem solving until we get it right.