Ant ideas how to get a breast fed babt to accept ebm from a bottle?

[carolcoles]

This ones for a friend of mine her ds is 7 months and is breastfed but he will not even look at a bottle or beaker and she'd like to get him to accept breastmilk from a bottle to give her a bit more freedom? Anyone one else come up against this? Any ideas?

[Donk]

DS would not drink anything from a bottle until we tried 'Dr. Brown's'. Suddenly no problem...
Don't know if this is any help...

[2MwahHaHaHappy]

Like your friend, when my ds had anything other than breast milk, it was the first time he's ever tried using anything like a bottle etc. I can't remember but think he was a similar age. TBH I didn't bother even trying with a bottle, but went straight onto using either an avent magic beaker, or just drinking out of a cup which he managed absolutely fine. He can also drink through a straw really well. Has she tried cup feeding?

[2MwahHaHaHappy]

this was the beaker we used, I think on the recommendation of MNers at the time. What goes around, comes around!

[Kiwiem]

We had trouble with this even though we got DS onto the bottle a bit earlier. Try getting DH or someone else to give the bottle, or if it has to be the mum, have the baby on her lap but with his back to her. If he's facing mum he can smell the milk in the boobs...

We also tried Nuk teats which are supposed to be more like real nipples (although they all say that). DS preferred them after refusing Avent ones to begin with.

[popsycal]

MAM ulti vent teat on a wide mouth bottle
stand up, hold baby upright fasacng away from you, sing and prance round like a mad woman

yes i was that desperate

[carolcoles]

she's tried a beaker but he just plays with it and anything else he just screams the place down has tried other people feeding his to no avail. Also tried the avent magic cup thing but it was a no go. Not tried the Dr Brown one so may give that a go, where do you get them?

[popsycal]

lots of people have success with the teat i mentioned
i had trieed everything

[Suzysooz]

We tried everything - cups, teats, bottles. She will drink from all of them now, but not milk - of any kind. As soon as she knows whats in it, its a blank rejection. It depends how strongly your friend feels about it but she might want to try going 'cold turkey' and leaving the house for a significant amount of time to see if dd takes it. We never tried it but I know quite a few people who did and it seemed to work.

[saralou100]

a friend could only get her dc to take liquids from a spoon.. nothing else worked!!

[carolcoles]

That sounds like a possible!

[popsycal]

syringe?

[deaconblue]

Ds refused for months so I left it for ages and then tried again with the Tommee Tippee back to Nature bottles which are really squishy and boob-like particularly with warm milk. I also found facing hinm away from me worked well for the first few tries, now he snuggles up like he used to do when breast feeding. The smaller bottle can tuck under your armpit so baby can face boob too.