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Adding something to formula for my bottle refuser?

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123456kent · 15/05/2018 10:48

I’ve posted here before about my bottle refusing baby, and it’s not getting any better.
She’s 7 months old. She CAN take a bottle, she has done, so it’s not like I need to change the bottle/teat (which are Mam).
But she refuses. If she is babysat by grandparents she just had a stand off with them and refuses it. Eventually will take some as a dream feed (sometimes), but none while awake.
She won’t take any from me. Either screams the place down or chews at the teat.
I don’t necassarily want to stop breastfeeding, I just want to cut down, and have some freedom.
I have a wedding to go to in July that’s 2 nights away from her and I’m very nervous about that.
Weaning is going well, but I haven’t dropped any feeds yet, and she still seems to be gulping a lot of milk from me.
Is it a dreadful idea to add something to formula to make it taste nice for her? As a short term solution. I’m thinking vanilla essence, nesquik? I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I am at my whit’s end with trying to get this baby to take a bottle!! I would then reduce it as she got better with it.
I’m using Aptimil. I have used Hipp organic and she seemed the same but i’m considering trying again, and other brands. Or do they all taste the same?
Thanks

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DIVivienneDeering · 15/05/2018 10:53

I definitely wouldn’t. Neither of mine would ever take a bottle but would drink water and milk from a sippy cup from 6 months.

Jackyjill6 · 15/05/2018 18:02

Have you tried expressing breast milk? To be honest it is most likely nothing to do with the taste, and more about rejecting the teat.

123456kent · 16/05/2018 16:12

She takes a sippy cup with water with no objection - but dribbles it out.
And in terms of whether it’s milk or bottle she’s rejecting - honeslty I can’t answer that.
Last week she took 3oz from a bottle with no issue whatsoever. That was pretty one off. Every other time she chews on the teat or keeps her mouth closed.
I even tried cows milk out of desperation yesterday, she wouldn’t take one gulp.
It’s pure stubborness. She wants the boob and nothing else.

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Sleeplikeasloth · 17/05/2018 22:21

My baby refused to let anyone other than me and my husband give her a bottle at that age, and he's been formula fed since birth, so even without breastfeeding, there are no guarantees. With him it passed eventually and then he was OK with it. We didn't do anything, he chose to take a bottle from them once day and was then fine

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