https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 09 May 2026 10:38:17 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-6-month-old-refusing-to-eat-at-daycare#post-2521183 Mon, 11 Apr 2016 09:32:01 +0000 hellobeeboston 2521183@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@josina: thanks! we were at the doc's last week because he was covered in a rash which turned out to be a virus of some kind, but his ears looked clear... some of his refusal definitely coincided with the sickness, but, more so that this is just his new normal :( even this weekend nursing wasn't as easy as normal. The only time he nurses really well without being distracted is late at night before bed and in the middle of the night.</p> <p>going to the doc this friday - we'll see what he thinks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-6-month-old-refusing-to-eat-at-daycare#post-2521180 Mon, 11 Apr 2016 09:28:43 +0000 josina 2521180@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With my DS whenever he refused bottles he had an ear infection... it was actually the only way I knew he was sick because he had no other symptoms.<br /> When he was older, like 9 months, we did have bottle issues where he just decided he wasn't going to take the Dr Brown's bottles anymore, and would only take the Avent bottles.<br /> Not sure if either of those are the issue but that was it for us. ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-6-month-old-refusing-to-eat-at-daycare#post-2521120 Mon, 11 Apr 2016 08:55:18 +0000 snowjewelz 2521120@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DD had bottle refusal, then reverse cycling too. I had to suck it up and keep offering whichever she's refusing first, then offering her what she wants. When I first went back to work, and then when she went to daycare (10 mo), there def was an adjustment period. I hope it resolves soon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-6-month-old-refusing-to-eat-at-daycare#post-2520552 Sat, 09 Apr 2016 17:06:58 +0000 hellobeeboston 2520552@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mama Bird: @Pollywog: reverse cycling! Yes! Although even nursing during the day (weekends) he is SO distracted eating. Like, he can't stop looking around to eat long enough. </p> <p>@MrsSRS: yeah, thinking this might be our issue. Even though he's never been great with bottles it's at its all time worst right now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-6-month-old-refusing-to-eat-at-daycare#post-2520551 Sat, 09 Apr 2016 17:03:04 +0000 hellobeeboston 2520551@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsSRS: yeah. Thanks!! I know, I'm comparing him to the other boy super close in age who eats like 18oz and 2-3 meals!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-6-month-old-refusing-to-eat-at-daycare#post-2520362 Sat, 09 Apr 2016 08:38:47 +0000 MrsSRS 2520362@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Also, I counted the ounces, and with the milk they're mixing in solids he's getting close to an ounce per hour while you're gone, which is perfectly safe. I know it's not ideal for you, but LO is probably fine, and 16th percentile is also totally fine. It's only a problem if LO dramatically changes percentiles. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-6-month-old-refusing-to-eat-at-daycare#post-2520240 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 21:28:01 +0000 Mama Bird 2520240@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, we've been dealing with reverse cycling too. My 8 month old has been driving DH (who's caring for her now) insane with screaming fits at every meal, barely eating, and then tanking up at night straight from the tap. She just got over the flu last week and just about gave up solids... and has been perfectly happy on 6 oz during the day plus her night feeds. Well, she's perfectly happy as long as we're not trying to feed her - then she lets us know very loudly that she wants nothing to do with it :bummed: We've been weighing her (because major weight loss during the flu) and she is gaining, just very slowly. I do hope she grows out of that phase soon though! I miss sleep... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-6-month-old-refusing-to-eat-at-daycare#post-2520233 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 21:12:48 +0000 Dahlia 2520233@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO started daycare at 6 months and refused bottles for a good week and a half. I thought it was starting daycare, but it might have been a phase because she's started to give them trouble again now at 9 months (although will still drink eventually thankfully!). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-6-month-old-refusing-to-eat-at-daycare#post-2520221 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 20:48:14 +0000 Pollywog 2520221@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My baby reverse cycles. My doctor says it's fine if you're fine feeding more at night.</p> <p>We are still on just milk, but I normally nurse at 5, 7, and 8 am and drop at daycare at 830. He then nibbles until he gets home around 430 and we nurse 3-4 times before bed. It wasn't my first choice, but works well for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-6-month-old-refusing-to-eat-at-daycare#post-2520214 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 20:33:46 +0000 MrsSRS 2520214@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>FWIW, I sah and my DD did this at six months too. Rejecting nursing during the day, plateau in weight fain, lots of night nursing. She was just too busy. It was an awful phase, but it passed by 7 or 8 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-6-month-old-refusing-to-eat-at-daycare#post-2520148 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 18:35:02 +0000 gingerbebe 2520148@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It sounds like he's reverse cycling to nurse directly. If that's not going to work for you, I'd offer him MOTN feedings by bottle - perhaps DH can help - and get him to just start accepting he can't just hold out for the boob. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-6-month-old-refusing-to-eat-at-daycare#post-2520111 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 17:20:58 +0000 hellobeeboston 2520111@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 6 months old (last Friday) and is mostly breast fed, but supplement with formula when needed and he's starting to eat foods. </p> <p>Before I went back to work at 3.5 months we had a really hard time getting him to take a bottle. He finally accepted the lansinoh mOmma but would still occasionally get mad and refuse bottles here &amp; there. But now it's getting worse!</p> <p>I nurse him 2-3x overnight (maybe part of the problem? But it's more times when I feel bad that he didn't eat all day), then I nurse before I leave for work, he's at daycare 9-5:30, I nurse him at 6, then again at 8 at bedtime. </p> <p>During the day (this past week at least) he is refusing bottles except one and will only drink 3-4oz from that one bottle and then that's it all day. Then they are doing oatmeal mixed with 2-3oz breast milk 1-2x and a vegetable mixed with an ounce of BM to make up for it. Ugh!!</p> <p>Our 6 month doc appt is next week, but we were in for a sick visit this week and he weighs 15.5 lbs - 16th percentile or so. I'm sure he needs to eat more during the day, and they spend a good portion of the day trying to get him to eat.... It's the only time he cries, when they try to give him a bottle. Otherwise he's happy and smiling most of the time. </p> <p>Help!?! </p>