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EBF 5 months won't take a bottle. Help!

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krustyloaf · 03/01/2012 16:24

My DS has been very successfully EBF from birth. Early on we introduced a bottle of expressed milk occasionally so he would get used to drinking from a bottle. Well somewhere between 3 and 4 months we had stopped giving him expressed milk because we found I was having problems with warming it. To cut a long story short I didn't want him to have formula unnecessarily so we stopped and that was that really. Well now we've started weaning and have tried to reintroduce the bottle along side this, this time with formula (Aptimal) and we're really struggling. It seemed he didn't like Avent bottles very much so we changed to Tommy Tippee and he will happily drink water from those so I know he is capable, but still will not take milk.
Can anyone suggest anything that might help, or is it simply that he doesn't like the taste of formula? I'd like to add that when we started weaning we gave him baby rice mixed with formula and he ate that very happily.
I'm planning on going back to work within the next 2 months so need to find a solution asap!

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rufusnine · 03/01/2012 17:02

none of my 3 ever took to a bottle - Ever!!! I tried every bottle on the market until I made DC1 sick (feel bad about that now!) I still bf morning and night and i gave them a cup eventually with some of the holes sealed up. My 1st could drink from a straw by 6 months - anything to get some milk into her!! maybe a cup would help?

Bayliss1 · 03/01/2012 17:45

I had the same problem with my dd. I also gave dd a bottle early on but stopped because I found it easier to just bf. I wanted her off me before I begin work in May and advice I was given was that someone other than the mother needs to give the bottle. This is because baby can smell the milk on mum. My dh took on the task of giving dd her bottle before bedtime with me downstairs out of the way. It was a fight with her on the first night but he got her to take a couple of ounces of aptamil. I then went and finished the feed with bf. The following 2 night we repeated this and each time dd took more formula from dh. After about a week I tried giving the bottle and she took some from me but when she got tired, I would bf. Now she will take a bottle from me and I don't bf her at all at bedtime. I just bf if she wakes in the night. We also do a sleep feed of formula at 10.30. It is hard to begin with and I found it quite upsetting but dh persevered and it has worked!!!! You have got to really want to do it and stick at it!! Good luck!!!

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