She won't take breastmilk from the bottle - any ideas?

7 replies

noopska · 08/09/2006 22:23

Hi my DD just thinks breast in best
shes going to nursery two days a week next month so I want get her used to taking expressed breastmilk in the bottle

shes done it in the past without a problem but now is just not happy!

any advice?

cheers X

OP posts:

hairymclary · 08/09/2006 22:23

try a cup?

colditz · 08/09/2006 22:25

wrap a dirty bra round the bottle to diguise it?

pupuce · 08/09/2006 22:26

How old is she?

suburbanjellybrain · 08/09/2006 23:57

definately try a few different cups my 5mo dd is taking ebm from a tommy tippee first cup - as long as your lo is over 4m then there is no problem - or you could try sips from a beaker if she is older... good luck

Original poster

noopska · 09/09/2006 10:29

thanks for comments

shes 3 and half months

anyone tried those 'nuk' bottles/teats?

cheers

OP posts:

hb583 · 09/09/2006 12:20

My baby did this too!! It took two weeks of repeated offerings every day (to a screaming unhappy baby) until finally she took it again. I found feeding her in a different way helped too. She associates me with breast feeding but her bouncy chair is a different environment so that seemed to make a difference as well - good luck!

edam · 09/09/2006 12:29

I'm with Colditz - have given this tip loads of times. Worked for us. You have to be out of the room though, otherwise baby will just scream for you.

I assume it works because the bottles smell of your breasts and baby realises 'ah, there's MILK in there, why didn't you say so before?'.

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