25 | My Baby Refused Every Bottle and No One Could Tell Me Why | Amy-Lea | Bottle Feeding Aversion, Reflux & Tongue Tie

<p>As a sleep consultant, Amy-Lea thought she knew what a hard feed looked like. Then Max arrived, and every single bottle became a battle.</p><p>Amy-Lea is an early childhood educator turned sleep consultant, mum to Isabella and six month old Max. With her first baby, feeding was easy. With Max, every bottle turned into screaming, back arching, biting, and projectile vomiting, sometimes for over an hour, several times a day.</p><p>She saw her GP four times. She saw her paediatrician. She saw two different speech pathologists. Everyone checked his tongue tie, his reflexes, his coordination. Nothing was wrong, and yet nothing was working.</p><p>In this episode, Amy-Lea shares what it actually took to get a diagnosis of bottle feeding aversion, why so many health professionals hesitate to name it, and the two simple changes, cue based feeding and a strict thirty minute limit per feed, that turned things around within twenty four hours.</p><p>We also talk honestly about the postpartum anxiety that came with it, the guilt of feeling like feeding wasn't the bonding experience she expected, and why being a sleep consultant herself didn't make any of it easier. Sometimes you need someone outside your own home to tell you what your baby is actually asking for.</p><p>If your baby fights the bottle, arches away, or brings up full feeds and you have been told everything looks fine, this conversation will make you feel a lot less alone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Follow:</p><p>Amy- Lea <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tailoredsleepco/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@tailoredsleepco</a> </p><p> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/awakeat3am.podcast/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@awakeat3am.podcast </a> &amp; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sophiassleepschool/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@sophiassleepschool</a></p>