My baby won't take a bottle, what can i do?!

[Jude1]

Hi, i'm new to mumsnet. I'm about to start uni so i need my son (who's 11 weeks) to take my milk from a bottle while i'm in lectures. I've been expressing and practising with him. I've tried every kind of bottle and teat, i've tried giving it to him myself, i've tried other people giving it to him, i've tried different places, different positions, different times of day, but nothing works and now its become a real fight between us. he just screams if he sees a bottle. What can i do?!
Jude xx

I know the baby whisper recommends the haberman feeder for situations like this but they're a bit pricey to say the least!

slightly cheaper here

I've had exactly the same problem with all 3 of mine. I was determined to start mixed feeding earlier with this one, but dh as usual didn't quite get organised enough, so I now have a 5 mth old who is only now beginning to take the odd bottle.
I know it'd not much help, but do persevere. I found nuk teats really good, as they mimic the shape of a nipple, and giving a bottle at a set time, maybe mid morning or mid afternoon, seemed to help. It's taken me about 3-4 weeks each time, but all of a sudden they've started to take one. I also know of someone who got so desperate to start bottle feeding as she was returning to work, that she didn't offer the breast at all for a whole day, and at 5pm her baby gave in. Not sure if I could do that...good luck, I do sympathise, and hope you get more advice from others

should read dh and I didn't get organised

Nuk is the only one ds2 would take too.

Bit of an odd one but it might help - my 16 wk old DS only takes his bottle if we put teething gel on the teat! course he is teething and just loves the stuff, but if we don't put a blob on he really makes a fuss about bottle. Also sticking to regular times does seem to help - we give him a bottle in the morning and one mid afternoon and he is breastfed the rest of the time. Seems to work so far. Can sympathise as DD1 stubbornly refused bottle and in the end I gave up breastfeeding altogether, left her with DH for the day and after much crying she did give in - but I felt terribly guilty and still do, wish Id fed her longer than I did. Tommee Tippee closer to nature bottles work well for us at mo. Good luck!

Thanks for all your advice, i definitely will not give up. Can i ask what is DD and DS what do these stand for?

Its darling son or darling daughter - it took me ages to work that out too! Only joined mumsnet last week when we finally joined this century and got the internet! Find it strangely addictive. There is a list of acrynoms (prob spelt that wrong) that you can click on that explains it Good luck with your little one and uni

hi, the tommy tippee closer to nature bottles are good, as they mimic the breast. my lo (little one) took to them straight away

also sippy cups or just straight from a cup is worth trying - they recommend sippy cups once you start weaning anyway, and apparently breast fed babies take to them easier ? or doidy cups are supposed to be quite good.
might be worth a go