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Help Needed! How to get BF baby to take occasional expressed bottle...

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TheShopaholic · 26/05/2007 22:58

I've given DD the odd expressed milk or formula bottle since she was 6 weeks old (she's now 20 wks). Was great when I wanted to get out and about without her for a few hours. DH tried to give her a bottle last week and she refused and again today while I was out she refused expressed milk again. Has anyone else encountered this and how did you get round it? She previously scoffed the bottle without another thought

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Bambiraptor · 26/05/2007 23:09

It may because it is your dh that is offering her the bottle. She may only be comfortable with you feeding her.
Bizarrely, with my 2 dc's when I was bfing they would not accept a bottle from me, only someone else.
Sorry no real advice except to perservere and she will evenually get used to it.

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TheShopaholic · 26/05/2007 23:20

I wondered about that so gave it a try today but she wasn't happy til she got the real thing!

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Springadora · 26/05/2007 23:21

NEver got around it. HOpe you get better advide from someone else. BOL.

Tumblemum · 26/05/2007 23:47

dd was a serial bottle refuser, dr browns worked for us, someone with similar problem recommended the teats, but we had to persisit and keep offering and then make sure she had one every other day, otherwise if too long a gap we were back to square one. good luck

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TheShopaholic · 27/05/2007 21:44

I really don't think it's the teats thats the problem but you may have something with the period of time between bottle feeds. Will perhaps try to give her another bottle tomorrow and keep persevering til she takes one again

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mears · 27/05/2007 21:46

She maybe refused it because she wasn't actually hungry? I sometimes think that babies are offered bottle feeds of EBM too soon when mum is away.

Tumblemum · 27/05/2007 22:12

dd was my second child and I did not think teats would make a difference, ds was avent and dd, was very sceptical but they did seem to help, for a while once we 'cracked her' she would refuse avent but accept dr browns, eventually we got her on to avent, I had to get her to take a bottle because had to leave her two eve a week,
hope you get there

adath · 27/05/2007 22:38

DS suddenly refused a bottle he had only very occassionaly had one but had alwasy been happy to take it.
Kellymom has some tips on how to get a bf baby to take a bottle I did find that someone else doing it was no help although a lot of women do. I did find that rocking ds gently or walking around with him he took it better.
I agree with Mears though I think some babies are offered the EBM too early sometimes in a kind of oh better feed hi panic so she may just not be hungry.

dollydumps · 27/05/2007 22:46

My lo was a nightmare to get on the bottle, and as others in this thread have said, it did help to get someone else to do it (preferably when you're not there - so you can't give in and offer the boob).
I also found that changing the type of teat helped. We ended up giving her the old fashioned cheap yellow ones from Boots and that seemed to do the trick. Might be worth a bash - they're only about 50p!!
Good luck.

shish · 28/05/2007 16:36

My ds did that. Refused bottle after my milk came in. I tried everything - every teat, bottle, person I knew (including my grandmother). I found that he always did better with me. In the end when I has totally given up, he suddenly saw the bottle one day and decided he HAD to have it. He was a about 6 months old. With my ds, I think it was just that he was only going to accpet taking the bottle when HE was ready, not when I wanted him to. I do agree that you might want to give the bottle more frequently. Good luck. I really do hope it all works out for you

shish · 28/05/2007 16:37

I forgot to say that he is drinking from the MAM bottles - don't know if you want to give those a go x

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TheShopaholic · 28/05/2007 22:21

Thanks for your posts. Didn't get round to giving her a bottle today but will definetly try again this week. She's previously had Avent and Tommee Tippee bottles so will try with these again before going out to buy something else. She was really hungry when she was offered EBM by DH as a good number of hours had passed since her last feed but she just refused point blank. I arrived home 15 minutes later and she was screaming for grub and went straight onto boob .

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cazee · 28/05/2007 22:36

I am having this problem at the moment. 21 week old DD actually attacks the bottle, waving her arms about loke a mad thing, but she is really hungry. I have tried when she is not too hungry, in case it was frustration, but it is the same. I don't know what to do as I need to leave her with my sister for the evening soon to go to a wedding. Tried an avant non-spill cup, but she attacked that too...

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