breastfed baby totally rejecting expressed bottles

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does anyone have any tips to overcome bottke rejection? my ds2 is now 9 weeks old, he breastfeeds very well but i have also been expressing 1 bottle a day from age 3 weeks as am keen that he can take a bottle too....

However, he is pointblank refusing to take the bottle - i have tried this as a dream feed, as a first feed of the day and with my husband rather than me offering the bottle.. I have tried different flow teats on tommee tippee and avent bottles and also freshly expressed milk as opposed to reheated frozen milk - but nothing works. He refuses to suckle, spits out whatever does trickle into his mouth and then screams the house down. we had an hour's stand off this morning and still he wouldn't take any milk from the bottle. i don't know what else to do but really need him to take a bottle soon as i need to leave him when i go in to hospital shortly - please help!!!!

My little boy totally refuses the bottle too. He's 16 weeks and had previously taken a bottle. We've tried all different bottles, times of day etc. We've found that a doidy cup works - he just laps at the milk a little bit like a cat. I think you can sometimes get one from your health visitor to try?

Hope you manage to get it sorted.

I saw an episode of The Baby Whisperer the other day when the baby had exactly the same problem. She brought in one of these and the baby took to it straight away. Expensive though...

Sorry, no advice, my DS does this too. He's eight months, and has only ever accepted about five bottles ever.

mam teats
mine wouldn't take any others

Have you tried offering him a bottle when he's in his chair? It was the only way DD would take a bottle at first.

DD was a bottle refusnik and DS seems the same, although we've had some success with the Tomme Tippee 'shaped like a nork' bottles.

My friend's DD took the Breastflow bottles; worth a try?

How long will you be in hospital for? When I had some dentistry done recently, I couldn't BF for 12 hours and, despite my worries, DS did take a bottle, but only from DH. He also would only take it if he was sitting in his lap facing away from him.

Good luck.

2 girls here. neither have ever taken a bottle no matter what the contents. I tried every available teat/cup/bottle. Very sorry to say - you may never achieve this.

just saw the part ref going to hospital. I think a cup or even a syringe is worth a try. there is dropper thing by the breast pump people beginning with M (name escapes me) which didnt work for me tho may for you.
Good luck to you anyway

this is it

My now seven month old would never take a bottle.
We tried every make under the sun.
Finally had success with nuk latex teats.
Fingers crossed for you.

hi - thanks for all your tips and support and just to say that the medela special needs bottle arrived yesterday and, after an initial screaming battle, he did eventually relent and drink the full 4oz.... fingers crossed for tonight! I think the fact that he can choose when to suck really helped as he always seemed to splutter with 'normal' bottles....