Advice needed - post-bottle mystery howling

[Norfolkvillas]

Hello family room

Having garnered so much useful advice from this forum, I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on our current predicament: my now 16 month old son, who is normally a happy and good-tempered little guy, has an ongoing habit of absolutely losing it when his bottle finishes. He really screams in what seems like anger / frustration (and a recent addition is hurling the offending bottle across the kitchen, arches his back, writhes about, and is inconsolable for two or three minutes, after which point it suddenly stops and he returns to his usual happy self.

I guess I'd just got used to this behaviour - it's been going on, to a greater or lesser extent, since I can't remember when. He's always had a very healthy appetite and has always been at the top of the weight charts.

A friend asked me yesterday 'how do you know he's not just hungry?' but surely if this was the case, he'd seem more distressed in the run up to meal times?

A quick Google search doesn't seem to return loads of people experiencing the same thing, so now I'm suddenly wondering if I've been remiss in ignoring these outbursts and maybe there's something wrong?

Sorry for long post - can anyone shed any light?? Next stop, my GP...

[Ko]

my little one howled when his milk was finished when he was 2-4 months old approx. we did try giving more milk but he vomited it up as his tummy was full up! i think he also liked the sucking sensation so we gave him a dummy straight after.

i'm inclined to agree with you that if he was generally hungry, you might notice it in the run up to meal times. wouldn't it be easier if they could just tell us?!

[nikki73]

Maybe too much air/a burp?

[byngo]

I am guessing he is taking in to much air as he is gulping his feed. Try an anti colic bottle with one of those tubes down the middle (tommee tippee do them) - worked for both my girls. Good luck

[Norfolkvillas]

Thanks all, I'll try an anti-colic bottle if only to rule out the possibility that it could be wind - he's not particularly windy, and when he does burp I don't see any noticeable relief... I suspect it might be the sucking thing that Ko mentioned - I'm pretty sure that if I gave him a dummy straight after, he'd be happy as larry, but usually we keep dummy usage to 'emergencies' such as planes and, erm, if he wakes up earlier than we want him to of a morning...