Fussy baby not taking the bottle...tried everything

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Hi, I am really hoping someone can help me, I am at the end of my teather. My daughter is now 3 months old. We gave her a few bottles of expressed milk when she was newborn so she got used to the bottle even though she was breastfed. She was fine until around 6 weeks from then on she has refused to take the bottle.

I have tried different teats, bottles, temperatures of milk, positions, me being out of the house. You name it we've tried it. She just cries at anything other than my boob. We then had a break through with the Medela brand where she would take it if I started her off on the boob and quickly swapped her over. We've been doing this for a while but she won't take it straight away, without me getting her started. So I have gained nothing.

Then tonight I tried the Minbie bottles and she took the whole bottle no problem. I didn't have to start her, we stopped half way for a wind and she got back on no problem. Tried to repeat this evening.....no chance! screams if she is given anything other than boob.

Please someone help....I can't be the only one who is going through this. I am meant to be going back to work in a few weeks!

Thanks in advance

Sorry I'm no help but I would be interested to know how other people have overcome this too as I'm in a similar predicament.

I had exactly the same with my LO. Refused all bottles and then finally took the minbie but then wouldn't again the next time I tried. I kept trying over the next few days and eventually she took it again. I also found that she likes the milk really hot. She now has a bottle for her 7pm feed every night.

Weirdly she finally took a dummy for the first time around the same time which was a relief as I was her dummy before that and was finding it hard going. I found a few things changed all at the same time (she's 6 months). Good luck!

Might not be much help, but just in case:

We started trying a bottle at 5 months and DD refused. I used to try every day, and she'd often take a little (10ml tops) but then refuse.

She did like it hotter than you'd think, and a slower flow teat than the brand (mam) recommended for her age.

What worked in the end was me going out. Not just for the feed, but a few hours - I had lunch out and a facial, not all parenting sacrifices are hard.

Will the baby be on solids by the time you go back? I read so many accounts from people saying it would just be ok, the baby would take more solids and more water and feed from me when I was home.

Good luck, hope you find something that works soon, it's so stressful.

Mine would never take a bottle for me and when I was at work my mum would laugh that he would take the bare minimum as if to stave off his hunger but not fill
Himself up but he was 10 months when I went back to work. The amazing nursery got him to take a bottle x

Thanks so much for everyone who replied to my message. For anyone who has the same problem I can highly recommend the MINBIE brand. I ordered one as it had popped up on my instagram and facebook account quite a lot. It worked first time. The teat is a completely different shape to anything on the UK market and she has since had all her feeds from the bottle.

I then had trouble with getting her onto formula, she refused SMA, APTAMIL and Cow & GATE so I then tried HIPP organic which she loves. Everyone is different I guess but for my DD this was perfect. Massive relief!

That's great! Thanks for the update. We've tried tommee tippee, mam and nuk but had no success so will have to give these a try.