won't take a bottle

[BlueDragonfly]

Baby monster just will not entertain teh bottle.

He is getting into his own routine which seems to be pretty jumbled in the day but he is consistently feeding at 7:30/8pm. Ideally i would like this to be the last one that i do in the evening so that i can leave him for a few hours so i have been expressing for hm to have a top up if needs be. Other than me not being able to get much out when i express (is that normal?) he just won't entertain a bottle at all! He has screamed teh place down when we have tried! i don't want to buy hundreds of bottles, nor do i want him to have formula (nothing against it ds1 was ff and ds2 mix fed) but i am pleased withmyself that he is 13 weeks and all he has ever had is my milk. I also know that if i ff him once then it gives me an excuse to stop eating properly ()

anywway i digress...any suggestions to make giving him a bottle easier? It wasn't me giving it to him, it was DP, i was in a different room

BD, Merryberry recommended some teats (Nam something or other) on the March thread for babies that refuse the bottle, so maybe have a look there. They helped turtle.
HTH!

OH, BTW, new March thread as it got too big....

My dd refused a bottle then I found success with the tommy tippee ones - can you borrow some off friends to try out rather than buying different types?

Also try introducing a bottle when he's not starving hungry so there's no pressure!

Its the tommee tippee bottles we have. I try and avoid avent nowadays, although that is what the other DSs had. I can't afford more bottles/a different expresser in any case with food prices going up!
I think the issue is that i don't want to have wasted money with these bottles if he won't use them and then on new ones/new teats etc

I get on ok with the expresser, find it comfortable, easy to wash and put back together. i think the problem is me! I haven't tried expressing while feeding from the other side though. Am i likely to get more that way?

There is no one i can borrow bottles/teats from either!

ds1 was a complete nightmare too. we eventually had success with mam bottles. would love to pass them on to you but i'm anticipating needing them with ds2 (nothing like optimism is there )

good luck!!

I'm having a similar problem. My little one was doing really well at breastfeeding and she was having a bottle every night, which my husband gave her. My husband's now been away for a few weeks so i thought what's the point in messing about with the bottle and expressing when i can feed her myself, so she hasn't had the bottle for a couple of weeks. For three nights now i've been trying to give her top ups in a bottle and she screams the place down. won't even let the teat near her mouth so i don't think it's the bottles themselves. it's worrying me because does this mean i can never leave her with anyone? Any advice?

sofia, lots of people say that babies don't like taking the bottle from the person who bfs them. i never managed to give ds1 a bottle! but dp managed it. nursery workers also got the hang of it pretty quickly. don't despair. one piece of advice we followed was to get the other person (dp or whoever) to give the bottle while you actually leave the room, or even the house, so the baby knows there is no alternative this seemed to work for us and also meant I was away from the battle which was a relief! good luck!

i had this problem too. My 4 mth just drank from a cup/bottle thing supa nova from green baby with a lip for milk thing. its like a tomme tippee lip/cup thing but fast flowing. worked first time no probs with dad, after trying EVERY bottle and teat on the market