Help! Theatre Trip Tomorrow!

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Going to see Chess at Albert Hall tomorrow night, paid an absolute fortune for tickets. Tried DS on new fangled expensive bottle tonight with carton of formula, didn't want to know and looked at me screaming with sheer hatred in his eyes whilst BF tried to feed him....apart from not going tomorrow night what CAN i do?! He had bottles when first born but now its a problem.

Uh-oh, you've left it a bit late
How old is DS?

16 weeks. Am hoping its the formula (Aptimil) which he had in hospital and will try and express some tomorrow morning. I guess I thought since he'd done it before it would be ok but yes I have left it a bit late. Maybe I'll just have to smuggle him in under my jumper!

I'd be tempted to leave him with a bottle of expressed milk. Formula tastes very different to breast milk and he won't take it without a fight if it's not what he's used to. Who are you leaving him with? They might have a harder time than they're expecting.

MIL and FIL, who have vast experience, albeit 30 odd years ago. Thanks for the advice, I will go and sterilse the pump!

I couldn't get hold of the Medela SpecialNeeds Feeder here in the Mothercare store (they suggested buying on line, but I was in a hurry!), but apparently it mimics breast feeding and is therefore a very good bottle to try on babies who'll only breastfeed. (Btw, I was trying to find a bottle that mimics breastfeeding as baby was getting a little lazy breastfeeding because of bottle being easier.) It was originally intented for babies with feeding problems, e.g. weak babies, cleft lip etc, but is now also recommended for mixed feedings.

In the end I bought the Breastflow First Years here, and it seems to be the closest to actual breastfeeding that I've tried so far.

I guess it might be a bit too late for you to go bottle shopping now, but maybe this helps someone else or you in future? Then again - maybe your LO is just fussy about what he eats, in which case the expressed milk will solve it all