Breastfed baby won’t take a bottle? 2 months

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Hi my baby girl is 9 weeks 4 days now. I’ve been breastfeeding since day one. We’ve had a couple of times I’ve fed her the bottle (pumped) and she’s been completely fine but it wasn’t a regular thing. She’s never liked dummies. Have tried.

Around 10 days ago I was at a family members and decided to give her a bottle so I could have a drink and she just refused. Crying until I gave in and breast fed. I have my partners and I anniversary this Saturday and we have somethings booked. As well as wanting time with just us for a couple of hours so she will be with her grandparents but we just can’t get her to bottle feed? We’ve tried everyday since the issue came up ten days ago.

I’ve tried tommee tippee closer to nature, I moved to a faster flowing teet. I then tried dr browns bottles. We’ve tried dummies again. My partner trying when I’m not in the room, when she’s half asleep; when she’s starving, when she’s not that hungry NOTHING will work. I even tried squirting it in her mouth with a syringe while the bottle was in. Tried freshly pumped, cooler, warmer. A warmer teet, a dark room, a quiet room, out of the house, in our bedroom. Me not there, me there. And nothing

The moment it’s in her mouth she screams like you are hurting her. Not forcing, not even touching gums just screams or she holds it and refuses to suck. If the milk does go in her mouth she spits it out. I’m really at my end? I would love my partner to have daily feeds for them to get a closer bond and us being able to celebrate our anniversary but I don’t see that happening? She would rather starve than have the bottle.

Anyone went through something similar? Did they get over it or not? Any tips?

Same here. Tried loads of bottles with no luck and then we tried one called a haberman suckle feeder which worked for us much to my relief!

I mixed feed from 2 weeks as I had a risk of going on medication that would end up in breast milk.

My DP gave my LO a bottle for the two months as she would automatically go for my breasts. The brands that worked were Boots and Asda own brands plus Medela. I never changed the teats so until she stopped using bottles she was using newborn teats.

Three DC. Neither of the first two would take a bottle until they started weaning. I didn't even try with DC3 - just assumed it wouldn't happen and it wasn't worth the grief to try.

My DC are all teens now and in the big scheme of things it's a tiny amount of time. I just took them with with me when I went out and accepted that it was part of parenting.

As she gets slightly bigger, you can give her the teat/empty bottle to play with so she can get used to the feel of it/put it in her mouth. Some babies are definitely more resistant to switching to bottles but it is possible - my son took 10 days to drink (formula) from a bottle, I stopped breast feeding in the day time but carried on in the morning/at night and he eventually realised the bottle was the only option. He was very clingy for those 10 days though and I got mastitis so not sure I’d recommend the cold turkey approach but if you drop one feed and offer a bottle at a regular time each day it may work!

@princesshollysmagicalwand I was going to say the same thing. Its utter bullshit. After really struggling with cluster feeding I introduced a bottle and we used a bottle for the last feed and breastfed for 6 months. I honestly believed that women are lied to about teat/nipple confusion. If you wait until 6 weeks you are pretty much stuck with EBF. Great I hear you all say but I stopped EBF (less the nightime feed) because I had to go back to work. Some women aren't available to BF around the clock.