DaisyDoo

What good advice & support you've had on this from the replies & how hard it must be for you & your daughter with such lack of sleep. If i were you, I wouldn't hesitate at all to refer her to the specialist sleep clinic, i believe its in the Evelina children's hospital within Guy's & St Thomas's??!!! They are the experts & will do investigations to find out exactly what is going on & what to do. Alos, do explore tooth, tummy, ear ache but don't let your GP take you off tangent, do have that referral made as well. Best wishes

Used neem oil, camomile oil, lavender oil & base cream put together by Neal's yard in Blackheath & did magic where nothing else worked - for an adult though.

Do see your GP. Your child could have GOR; Gastro Oesophageal Reflux or reflux as its commonly known. & yes, Speech & language therapists who specialise in feeding assess feeding skills. Good luck

EXACTLY the sam ething happened to me even though I introduced bottle at 3 weeks & he took it very well. You could just leave the bottle for now, introduce cup driking at 4 months as is the government guideline & have a break whislt she drinks from cup from your partner frm 4 months old? That's what I'm doing as my very content & happy baby was crying for up to 2 hours whilst we tried getting just 2oz down him through the bottle & now he is a happy baby for the whole day again :) I kno wits a very different advice to what you may have been looking for! But 4 months of age comes round SO quick.............

You need a referral to the community team as the King's SLTs see inpatients & caseload that have physiological swallowign difficutties as opposed to difficulty transitioning to the next stage texture. I should've said that by 'bite & dissolve' textures I meant anything that is like wotsits texture or kitkats/chocolate buttons (these more bite & melt but very safe to offer as well). Have such finer foods available as you prepare the meal so your child can experiment if wished to with no pressure. Good luck.

I agree with the finger foods suggestion; make these of "bite & dissolve" texture as very safe as dissolve in the mouth so no risk. Offer finger foods a lot, steamed fruit & veg as well as very ripe soft fruits all unpureed. You should also refer your child to your local speech therapy service, to be seen by a feeding trained speech therapist, usually part of the complex needs team but not always - hopefuly they see children who are having difficulties with moving on from a certain texture due to GERD. With recent cuts, services are offering les & less of course. It is really important that you remain very relaxed durign meal times & do no put any pressure on your child to eat no matter how positively it is done. Good luck