Bit of a dim question.

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Ok.

My mate breastfed her children, but her husband gave them a bottle at bedtime everynight. I was talking to her recently and she said that she was lucky that they took a bottle because some don't.

So if you breastfeed and they don't take a bottle does that mean you can never leave the baby with someone else?

I know it will change when I have children but that seems a bit scary. Silly question I know.

you can try different bottles/teats, or offer milk in a cup or beaker

and they can actually go for quite a while between feeds - since she was 5m or so if I feed dd before I left for choir at 7pm she'd last till I got home at 10.

Not a dim question. My dd1 never took to a bottle but we didn't try til she was a few months old.

With dd2 (now 6 months) I expressed milk and gave it to her in a bottle (occasionally not every night) from around 6 weeks. She will take a bottle and switch from breast to bottle with no apparent problems. I waited until she was 6 weeks because I wanted to wait til my supply was well established and to minimise her getting confused. However all babies are different so what works with mine may not with yours.

Thats not a dim question, I didn't have a clue about bottles till my dd arrived.

I didn't try dd with a bottle till she was 8 weeks as I'd heard they can get confussed and refuse the breast. By that time she decided she didn't want a bottle at all, it took months to get her to take anything, but we found a bottle that worked for us.

Every baby is different, some are happy to take bottle and some are a bit fussier

I carefully expressed a bottle for ds1 to have for months - he took them, but weaned onto a cup in the end anyway...couldn't be bothered with ds2, who is now a total bottle refusenik at 9 months. He will take bits of juice/cow's milk from a cup (but not formula or water).
so it is up to the baby, whatever you try