HELP! My DD is not eating ANYTHING! It's been about 4 hours.

[germin8]

My DD is 8.5 months old and she has been on 100% donors breast milk (and some of mine) for many months. She refuses solids.

Today, she last took almost 4 oz of milk about 1:30P. And, she fell asleep for her nap. She woke up about 2 hours later... and she usually doesn't eat upon waking up. She usually sucks her thumb and sorta whimpers to say she is hungry.  Well, about 4:30ish she did that... so I got the breast-milk bottle out... our usual bottle... with milk similar to the one she had at 1:30P. She toke a couple sips and refused it. Resorted to thumb sucking. She did it again. So, I gave her some (new to her) rice cereal w/ the same breast milk and she just about gagged. She did take the water in a spoon well... just before that... but after that, refuses the water in a spoon.  So, I switched the bottles to a different bottle. NOTHING. Then, I switched the milk to a new batch of thawed donor's milk... and nothing. She is hungry... sucks her thumb... whimpers... and then goes about playing... she's done this 3 times now. It is now 5:40.

She has no fever. Maybe teething...?

WHAT DO I DO? I'm thinking we'll need to go see a doctor soon!

I'm thinking of thawing a different donor's milk to see if she likes that milk. Then, I'm thinking of opening up a can of formula to see if she will take that. I'm also going to see if she will take solids (and she's refused it that last several times). I have no idea how to get her to take something!  HELP!!!!

[germin8]

Just when I was getting a bit worried... and after writing this email... she did her tumb-sucking-whimper-I'm-hungry thing and I gave her the original bottle of breast milk I have been trying to give her... and voila! She drank 3oz of it... then the phone rang and distracted her from eating.  Oh, THANK GOODNESS! I knew she would be so hungry she'd eat at one point... but I was getting somewhat worried.

[PatioGardener]

glad all is ok!