10wk old, predominantly BF'd, suddenly refusing EBM bottle :-(

[Bogwoppit22]

I'm so gutted. Ever since an early days jaundice issue my DD has taken bottles of EBM, along with being breastfed. We had concerns whether taking a bottle as such an early stage would be an issue for her BFing, but she was very tolerant and happily accepted either. We slowly dropped the bottle of EBM to one a day which my DP feeds her (a nice bit of daddy and daughter time). This was going swimmingly until this Monday when she point blank refused the bottle and just wailed at him. Despite repeated offerings since then we've had no joy. I have tried changing from our usual Medela bottles to a Nuk first choice (as the ones we had from the hospital were Nuk), I have tried offering it her when hungry, when fed and just playing with it, I've tried a faster teat and she'll actually go so far as to eject any milk that has the nerve to enter her mouth!
I'm supposed to be doing some travelling for several hours this month and next month, and had hoped to take some bottles of EBM with us as finding suitable BFing locations could be an issue, i also have a day in October where she's staying with my Mum for the entire daytime, however if she's refusing bottles this is going to be either not possible, or damn painful for all involved. I'm delighted that my 10wk old appears to be making her own decisions and is strong minded, but gutted about the potential consequences of it! (Kids!!)

I have had a look through older threads etc, but haven't really found a post that suggests that this could be fixed any time soon, so just wondered if anyone had managed some success with a similar scenario?

I never managed to get my BF baby to take a bottle - although we didn't start as early as you. However, at 7 months when I started working part time she accepted a sippy cup to my great relief.

Have you tried getting someone to feed her without you there? Breast is likely to be prefereable to her when you are there but maybe she would take if you were not available. Another technique would be to wait until she is quite sleepy and try - she may not notice the difference. Unfortunately babies can be really obstinate - mine certainly was.

No one warned me about bottle refusal - I naively assumed I would be able to express and give a bottle when I needed to. This didn't work for us and I was very stressed by thinking about returning to work. Although in the end she is now 11 months and still breast feeds morning and night with a sippy cup for water and we don't have the stress of weaning her off bottles.

Good luck!!!