Breast fed baby refusing bottles at babysitters

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I'm on my second day of looking after my sisters breast fed baby (aged 6 months). Yesterday he refused all bottles(breast milk) and just had solids this is totally unheard of before and he'll take bottles off his mum and dad and when he's

Because off this his mum was up 3 times last night feeding him and has had to go to work again today!

He's refusing again today so I mixed some milk with his breakfast an spoon fed him some more after that. I've tried a beaker and doidy cup. Any ideas?
I can't spoon fed all the time because I've go my Ds2 (7months) to look after as well as my older two kids.

As soon as his mum came to get him last night he latched on had a quick snack then bit her hard

My son's been ff since 2 months old

"when he's been left previously" sorry

Awww...bless! I know it's hard for his mum, but he is so very little, and is probably expressing his confusion by behaving in this way. Food is so much a part of a baby's relationship with the world and with his nearest and dearest. Can you not let him have this little bit of control, knowing that in time he will get over this 'blip' and take a cup quite easily?

I'm worried that he's not getting enough milk or will get dehydrated even with spoon feeding he's not getting that much. Don't want my sister to worry any more than she already does about bf. Dn not putting on weight well and hv giving conflicting advice etc

It's only the second day - and he may well have woken even if he'd had lots of milk because he's missed his mum and he loves bfing so much as a way to reconnect with her after she's been at work.

I went back to work when DS2 was 9mo (so a bit older, admittedly) and he rarely took more than 2oz milk twice a day then. Just made up for it when I got home.

Is this a long-term arrangement, you looking after your sister's baby while she works? Are you registered to childmind?

Yes long term arrangement, not child minder but am baby's aunty.

Thanks for breast feeding advice as long as I know this is normal I'll reasure my sister. I'm very proud of her for breast feeding for so long something I never manage to do not that I regret it considering the problems and lack of support she encountered.

I have encouraged her to come on here but she's a bit scared I think