my baby does not drink milk

Hello,

My baby does not drink milk. I am facing this problem since his birth. He used to drink breast milk but suddenly stopped and did not take formula milk even. After some days he again started having breast  milk but in small amount.
Now, he sometime drinks breast milk and sometime not, even after gap of 4-5 hrs. He does not like even formula milk, I changed 2-3 formula milk brands to try making him drink milk. But nothing worked out.Hence, I started giving him solid food like Cerelac and rice porridge.

How can make my baby drink milk and I give proper nutrition.

Please suggest.

Thanks & Regards
Seetha Prabhakar

[Renee Radenberg]

His weight is on the 25th percentile and his height is just below the 90th percentile for his age. At 5 months he can eat infant cereals, strained/blended fruits and vegetables = 2-3 tablespoons of solid food at each of 3-4 feedings. Most breast-feed infants do not like infant formula and need it mixed with breast milk to accept it. If the bottle of infant formula tastes like breast milk he will accept the bottle more. Try mixing ¾ breast milk and ¼ infant formulas at first. If he does accept it, then after a week or so, try doing a bottle mix of ½ breast milk, and ½ formulas. If you wish, you can gradually go to a bottle mix of ¼ breast milk and ¾ formulas, then totally to all formula depending on how he accepts it. When you want to wean him off the breast milk you can follow the above also. Hope this helped you. Thank you for your question.