[Aliantha]

Believe me, I've tried feeding him with other people around and it's simply impossible. What we've got now is the best situation I've been able to organize.

I've already cut the hole in his teat much larger. If it's any bigger he might as well just open his mouth and let me pour it in. I actually think that it is the way he moves his tongue combined with (or which causes) the weak sucking action.

I've tried leaving him till he's practically starving to feed, but then it's hopeless because he can't settle anyway and ends up falling asleep almost immediately and if I wake him, he wont suck anyway. I can't get him to feed when he's not at least starting to get pretty hungry, so there's a pretty fine window of opportunity.

Trust me, I've tried everything. I've tried putting him in his cot if he wont feed then getting him back up a bit later and trying again in the hopes that he'll get the idea that the more he feeds the longer he can put off going to bed for instance (yes I know babies don't think along those lines, but they do get the idea in their own way).

The best feed of the day is the 'dream feed' I've been getting him up for at around 10pm. He basically stays in the 'twilight zone' and has a quick feed and back to bed. Only problem is, that's really only a half sized feed to top him up till morning. Thankfully he's more or less sleeping through the night now at least.