oh how I remember those awful days. My dd was diagnosed with cah a few hours after birth, but wasn’t diagnosed as salt wasting for a few weeks...after she had lost a lot of weight and went into crisis. I had SUCH a hard time getting her to eat anything, by breast or by bottle, and I feel that the salt was to blame. I’m not sure if it was or not, but if you think about it, it’s just not natural to have to pour salt water down a brand new babys mouth and I’m sure it had at least a small part in it. One of the dr’s suggessted I mix the salt water with flavored syrup...we had raspberry I think...so then, when she would spit up, it would be bright red spit up all over..that was nice :) We stopped that pretty quickly. I think what worked best for us is mixing it with just a few mL’s of water and doing it as quick as we could. It took a few months, but after awhile I think she really started to enjoy it and would suck it out of the syringe. It seems like you’ll never make it past that stage and into the next of being able to salt table foods...but you will soon enough. The first few months are the hardest. My daughter is now 21 months...her big sister always puts the salt shaker in front of her so she can shake it in her hand and lick it off...she’ll do this in restaurants and I always laugh when I think about what other parents must think...it’s not often you see babies eating the salt.
Good luck!