Getting breastfed baby to accept bottle... (few extra bits)

[Andynlou]

Hi, our 6 week old has been EBF and recently we have tried introducing a bottle. He takes it so slow.. He might do an ounce in half an hour then not want any more. Then half an hour later he wants more. We do have the Nuk teats in 0-6 months (large flow) which is like a variable style flow. He will cry on the bottle when he's hungry because it's not coming out for him. When he does suck he can go quite fast. But it is so rare he does this. He's more concerned about the bottle not squirting into his mouth like a fast flowing breast.
We are using the aptamil milk as well and we have found with combination feeding it sits okay on his stomach, but last week (we had been in hospital) he picked up a bug and had diarrhea. When his stomach was empty he couldn't keep down the aptamil milk. Any suggestions for a baby which cries when bottle feeding out of frustration that he's not getting it fast enough? Thanks.

Might be worth adding on Saturday night I started feeding him at 10.00 with a bottle. And he was literally drinking all night until 6.00am. He did take 8oz over this 8 hour period
But it was no more than 2oz at a time. With half an hour rest between any feeds.

I don't think the amounts he's taking sound unusual, not from my limited experience anyway. I think it's preferable to feed breast fed babies with the slowest flowing teat though? Is the taste of the milk perhaps a problem for him?

Mine was using tommee tippee bottles, getting steadily worse at taking it until she started flat out refusing at around 12 weeks. Having a bit more luck with Mam bottles now, fingers crossed!

Not unusual to be cluster feeding at that age either.