Dd 8wo breast and bottle

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over the last few weeks we have given dd the occasional ff so I get a break and she learns to take a bottle.

She is not a fan and takes awhile last night it was meltdown city no way would she entertain it.

I have read how some babies never take a bottle and that does concern me and was part of why we tried and were pleased she did.

Have people had situations where they did and then refused?

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Does she need to take a bottle? If it's for when you return to work often baby's are old enough to skip bottle's altogether.

There are other way's to give milk if you really do need a break. Cup feeding or using a suplimentry nursing system.

To be honist neither of mine have taken a bottle, DD did early on but then refussed latter. We just went straigh to cup's. DS I've just not really bothered, but belive it or not I've been out more with him then I ever did with DD and it's all been fine.

I would like a break now and then to go out with friends and family. DH would like to help he was so frustrated last night when she was wailing and only I could settle her by feeing her.

It has coloured his opinion of breastfeeding that he feels more left out and he does loads with her cuddles nappies etc but as she feeds to sleep a lot he cannot help with that I am exhausted and he is upset he cannot help.

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Meg, I can't help but wanted to say we're having the same issue with DD 6wks. Introduced an expressed bottle, which she was happy with but I had problems expressing so tried one ff. She took it for a couple of days then yesterday screamed the house down when we tried to give it to her, then the same thing today.

My DH feels just as yours does. He's bonded with her really well, but is frustrated when only I can settle her with a feed. This evening was an example; I went up to have a bath and she cried and cried, again refusing a bottle from DH.

May have to go back to expressing and be less zealous with the pump to protect my nipples this time

My DD went through a fussy phase of not wanting bottles - even after being mostly bottlefed for a while and then ebf for a while. I found she had become fussy about the temperature and no longer accepted it unless the milk was at body temp or slightly warmer. If she was slow taking it and the
milk had cooled she would start refusing it but would take a fresh warm one!
It didn't seem to make a difference to her if it was ff or ebm.

Ditto on the temperature here!