Nipple shields and bottle

[shish]

Has anyone tried using nipple shields to encourage their baby to take the bottle? Any luck with this?? If so, can you let me know how you did it. I've tried all bottles and I've tried this before aswell, but thought I'd try again..

I used nipple shields to breast feed dd for 8 motnhs as she would not latch on properly. However, she wouldn't drink from a bottle either till 7 months.

On th eohter hand DS used nipple shields for a couple of months before latching on properly. He took a bottle from 5 weeks though (one feed per day)

How did you finally convince baby to take bottle?? ps everyone uses dd, ds, dh - abbreviations. What do they stand for?

dd - darling daughter
ds darling son
dh - dalring husband

look in acronym list at top of page.

At 7 months - after 4 months of trying - she finally took a bottle. Not sure how just think she was ready. which was lucky as I went back to work the next week. Tried loads of teets/bottles. Fianlly took the old style Boots own make. The tall thin bottles with silicon teet.

Made sure I started ds at 5 weeks with bottle (just 1 oz per day) so didn't have the same problem.

I've been trying since he was 5 weeks old!!

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IME they take it when they are ready not when you are ready! Not much help I know but hope if stops you stressing like I did.

Same here I'm afraid to say. Ds was a definite bottle refuser for months and months, we bought every bottle under the sun and tried the whole family feeding him. Eventually a few weeks before I thought I'd have to force him to go cold turkey ready to give up breast feeding he took a bottle no trouble, no crying and a big guzzle! Seems he was just ready.

Done all the same as you, every bottle - forced, playfully, in between feeds, different peole. Nothing seems to work. Have been trying for months. People say I shouldn't give it myself cos he can small me, but I seem to have the most luck in getting him to every take a tiny bit - and then back at square 1!!!

shish - here's a thought! Give up trying and just enjoy life without this pressure to give him a bottle!

Help him get used to being away from you for short times, and being amused and comforted by others without needing food.

When he's only a little older he can have solid food and fluids from a cup.

In the meantime, neither you nor he need the hassle of the bottle fight!

I agree Tiktok, it's like people used to say to me when I was sad and single that a bloke would come along when I'd given up looking - that was true and Shish your baby will probably take to the bottle when you stop caring whether he does it or not!! I think it's a man thing, they never want to appear to do what a woman wants them to!!