Bottle refusers - more girls than boys?

[mamjo]

Just one of those things I was thinking about during the 4am feed.

My DD has been refusing a bottle since about 6 weeks (now 20 weeks). Before this she would take expressed BM three times a week from dad so that I could get some sleep occasionally.

Since I've been doing a lot of Internet searches for the non existent "fix" I have noticed that way more baby girls than baby boys seem to be refusers. So I was wondering if this is true or it is just a coincidence that those are the posts I've read.

So is your bottle refuser a girl or a boy. (just for fun)

Boy.

Well that blows my theory TBJ

DS absolutely refused milk from anything other than my breasts. He has never drunk milk since stopping BF.

So with DD (second child) I started trying with the odd bottle of expressed milk a bit earlier. She never got the hang of normal baby-bottle teats, but was fine with a soft spout from 4/5 months. So both 'bottle' refusers, but DD less so than DS.

Girl!

Girl! Refused bottle from 12 weeks until 25 weeks. She's now taking EBM from a bottle (Hallelujah!) but it was a very hard slog getting to this point.

Ooh QOP how did you do it?

Boy. we went cold turkey when he was about 9 months and after 6 hours he took it.

He's now 2 1/2 and I can't get him off the damn thing

3 boys took to it fine, DD was thoroughly disgusted and would flap and wail and wag her head rather than have a bottle.

boy refuser
girl was fine (mixed fed)

DD refused a bottle. Wouldn't even take EBM.

boy refuser. two girls no problem.
(also went cold turkey after 10mos - the only fix)

i had 2 boy refusers

DD1 no problem DD2 refused until 14 weeks. Out of mums I have met boys seem far more likely to refuse. I guess that's a small sample though.