5mo - have I missed the boat giving her a bottle?

[newmomma]

Hi,

Have been trying (a bit half-heartedly, through utter sleep deprivation) to get DD to take a bottle.

She's just over 5 mo.

She flatly refuses, and gets terribly cross and then just gags.

Have been using tommee tippee bottles/teats which are supposed to be similar to bf.

She WILL suck a dummy (MAM ones), to go to sleep.

IS it going to be worth trying to buy MAM bottles/teats or will she just refuse those too? Can anyone else recommend another type of bottle for this situation if need be?

Can anyone give me some advice please?

How about using a cup? 5 mths old can learn to manage a cup if you hold it.

There is a factsheet on the NCT website:

nct.org.uk/info-centre/decisions/view-6

we tried all sorts of bottles with DD2 (4 months), then the HV recommended Nuk and they have definitely been the best by far. She still won't take more than 1oz but she does at least latch on and suck properly, unlike the TT bottles which just confused her. We're just trying it every night in the hope she eventually takes more.

Otherwise, the HV did say from 5 months try her with a cup, so why not give it a go? Apparrently BF babies often prefer to go straight to an open cup rather than a sippy cup.

advantage of nuk is that they do ones that can be squeezed - this is what helped me with dd, helped her realise that the bottles did in fact contain milk.

other idea is get her sucking on the dummy and then when she is relaxed and sleepy slip the bottle in instead.