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DD wouldn't take bottle (and Mum is secretly delighted!)

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MarmaladeSun · 18/09/2004 13:00

After having her jabs, DD was really really unsettled and miserable. For 3 days and 3 nights she cried and cried, I mean really ear splitting screams if I so much as attempted to put her down, and during the night was breastfeeding constantly. It got to the point where I was exhausted, and when I found myself crying at 3am with really sore nipples, I decided that when I got up I would start her on bottles. I felt that I was not getting a break at all. Anyway, after taking the kids to school, I made up a nice warm bottle, and settled down on the settee with her for a feed. Would she take it? Not a hope in hell! She cried, she wriggled, she gagged, she spat it out...in the end I gave up and put her to the breast where she snuggled down contentedly and fell asleep. And you know what? I was so happy I cried! I was secretly dreading her taking the bottle as I really love bf, and I'm happy to say that although she had a bad(ish) reaction to the jab, last night she slept a straight 8 hours, fed and then slept again for another 3 and is back to her lovely, happy, smiling self. My point is this, 'please PLEASE, no matter how hard it is at the time, don't make a decision to change from breast to bottle in the night when things seem worse. Wait until the daytime, and then think long and hard.' I know I would have been gutted had she really taken to the bottle, and bf would now be out the window.

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