Baby won’t take a bottle, and I need to go to an event - help!!

[Eststarr]

Ok so I have a 12 week old baby girl. She is exclusively breastfed but I have been trying to introduce a bottle to her. I don’t want the bottle to replace breastfeeding but I’d just like it as an option so that other people can look after her/I can have a break for more than half an hour!!

i literally can’t even have a shower upstairs without hearing her screaming wanting to be fed downstairs and I feel SO so trapped at the moment. I haven’t been able to Leave the house without her as I am so tied to feeding her. My son is 3 and he took to a bottle when he was the same age so I never had problems there!

I have a big concert coming up that I’m attending in June which I’m super excited about. I really really want to go, but I honestly feel like if DD won’t take a bottle then I can’t leave her with my parents/anyone! I worked out with travel/parking/the event length.. I’d need to be away from the house from 6;30-11:30 and that would involve me rushing like a mad thing to stick to those times!!!

ive tried all the techniques, getting husband to try feeding her, giving her just the bottle teat, giving it to her happy/sad, warm milk/cold milk. But she just won’t suck the test of the bottle whatever is tried.

im really feeling like I won’t be able to go to my concert now and I’m just gutted, feeling so trapped and stuck at the moment.

any ideas/ help would be much appreciated!!!

Try a sippee cup like my tommee tippee first cup or doidy first cup.

Some babies just don’t do bottles. I feel your pain.

What concert you going to?

You've got a few weeks, try every day and she'll hopefully get it eventually. Mine always had a bottle at 10pm ish but took a few weeks of being consistent every day for them to start taking it, then continue every day so they don't forget!!

@CornishTiger My only thought about sippy cups is will that bring the comfort needed that a bottle can bring? I just don’t want my poor mother to have a screaming baby for 5 hours! 😩
Going to (hopefully!) see Coldplay!!

I also have a bottle refuser. We had some luck with Tommee tippee anti colic bottles.

I had a combi fed baby and a EBF bottle refuser. Introduced the bottle in the same way, it just didn't work.

As for being away from baby in the shower, put baby in bouncer in the bathroom so she can see you. Alternatively turn the shower to full blast so you can't hear her (assuming she's safe with dad etc)

As for the concert, an open cup that she can drink from could work well. How close to 6 months will she by by then? She might take to it quite well.

Does she have any other comfort items / dummy / thumb that she can use for comfort while you're away. You could even sleep with it a bit so it has your smell for her.

I'll be honest, I gave up with my bottle refuser. It meant I missed a wedding but hey ho. Knowing her now as a 4 year old I was already fighting a losing battle trying with the bottle. She's always preferred more natural textures lol

Probably considered not appropriate but in my day we put a bit of honey on the teat. Worked a treat.