NUK teats - do they make a difference???

[emsyj]

That old 'breastfed baby won't take a bottle' chestnut is rearing its ugly head in my house AGAIN ((sigh)) . I had this issue with DD1 and so planned to give DD2 a daily expressed bottle to ensure it didn't recur, but it hasn't worked - for the last 4 days she has pushed the teat out of her mouth with her tongue.

I've been using MAM bottles and teats but have just ordered an NUK bottle with the latex teat to see if it makes a difference - any nice anecdotes about bottle refusers accepting a NUK latex teat to cheer me up?? Please??

[letsgetreadytoramble]

My baby refused every kind of bottle, but eventually accepted the playtex bottle latex teats after a morning of no breast milk and just me constantly offering him the bottle (was pretty awful but once he accepted the bottle he was fine.) After a few weeks on the playtex bottle I switched him to TT bottles and he took to it them away.

[abigboydidit]

Did you have any luck OP?

[emsyj]

No . I've just posted on the other thread about 'ready to give up' as I really really don't want to bf this baby for a year - I wanted to ebf for 6 months and then wean off. That makes me feel very selfish, but that's how I feel.

I'm now wondering whether there is any hope of being able to give up at 6 months and considering the prospect of starving DD2 into submission. That's a shitty thing to do, isn't it? But I don't know what the other options would be, other than carry on bf which I definitely don't want this time.

[abigboydidit]

Typical. Sorry to hear that. Am having similar struggles. Issue I have is that if I wait till she's proper hungry she gets so wound up and stressed that there's no way she'll take a bottle. Plus she's quite a puke-y baby so will end up making herself sick if she cries and I couldn't bear to watch that. But, if I try her when she's about due a feed she isn't hungry enough to try! So she either wont suck a bottle or she'll take one or two gulps (enough to take the edge off her appetite) & then have none of it. Off to join you on other thread..