Help - only breast will do!!

[debsagos]

Hi everyone,

I have a little problem?.i?m trying to get my 9month old to take something other than breast when it comes to eating.
However, he is less than obliging?.gives me disgusted looks and chokes on whatever goes in other than breast?..

He is refusing solids still which is fine by me but I?m going back to work in four weeks (only for a night a week) and I need him to take his milk from a sippy cup or something?.

Any ideas, hints, tricks????

Help would be muchly appreciated!

Ta
Debs xx

Will he take anything from anyone else? Dd absolutely won't take a bottle from me or dh, but is fine at nursery.

My ds (13m) is the same. Will not take milk in any form except breast. We've tried various bottles, beakers, cups, expressed milk, formula, cows, warm, cold...it makes no difference.
But I've just seen an advert for a new teat by Tommee Tippee called a comfort Nuby teat. Supposed to be as near to a breast as possible. Was wondering if anyone had tried them. May see if I can get one tommorrow and see how it goes. Will let you know.
Sorry not to be more help. I don't have your problem of having to work but it is rather a tie if no-one else can feed them isn't it?
I'm sure some wise mumsnetter will offer some great advice.

My ds (8 months) also refused a bottle and just chews away on the teat. He does take a little bit of milk from a cup, though. I got him used to taking water first, and now the nursery gives him some milk in a cup. I use a few different ones. I found that the sippy cups that need the baby to suck quite hard were no use for my son: he takes more just from a beaker with spout, or an Avent spout with the valve bit removed from underneath. He also liked drinking from a small cup with no spout from about 6 months (although this is messy!).

Good luck!

Well, I know they're all different, but we did find a solution for our dd. She was just the same as your little bottle-rejectors. It was a nightmare as I went back to work when she was 7 months, just 2 days a week and my partner ended up lugging her across town for a b/f at lunchtime. South East London to North West with a cross, hungry baby ... hmmm, not fun ...

Anyway, we used the Nuby teat and she liked it best. We also used v. small bottles so she could hold them v. easily. I gave her always expressed breast milk at first and always from the fridge. She gradually started taking more and more. Now she'll have 4oz a time (she still has a bed time b/f) 3 times a day. She's 16 months and I think that's probably enough.

A friend warned me about this problem, so I gave my DS a bottle every now and then from go one. He would only frink 2ox at a time though and then wanted a b/f anyway. He is now 4 mths and has started rejecting bottles completely. I also can't express which isn't helping I'm sure. Nubby teat seems better (to me anyway if not him!)A friend of a friend apparently has had sucess with a different bottle that imitates breast flow better, so as soon as the information has come back to me I'll let you know.

I have also been advised to try Nanny Goats Milk Formula which I have been advised which apparently is more agreeable to breast fed babies in taste. Does anyone else have any experience with this?

Please excuse rushed typing on last entry. Gramatical nonsense!

We used Nanny formula for ages with dd, she much preferred it, especially when chilled.

silly qu but do nubys fit avent bottles?

Our dd would never take a bottle at all, despite trying allsorts of stuff; I HAD to go out overnight when she was around 6 months and my dad fed her expressed milk from one of those Heinz soft spoons. It worked (eventually, glad I wasn't around to hear the fuss..) and after that she would take milk from a soft spout beaker.