Returning to work with a 10-month-old who will not take a bottle

[jmrpinkie]

I am going to be returning to work at the end of October. My daughter will be 10 months. She is currently exclusively breast fed and won’t take a bottle.

what does a 10 month old day look like? If she still won’t take a bottle by then will she be fine throughout the day? Obviously I know she’ll be eating solids and presumably she’ll drink water from some implement but just curious! Also hoping it will have changed by then but I’m just wondering.

Oh god I remember this well with both of mine. I first tried a bottle with my 2nd at two weeks. She point blank refused until 8 months. Finally took a bottle but then only from me giving it to her, she refused it from anyone else, FML!!! Anyhow she did go to nursery at 10 months, took a bottle there once a day but refused all food there for 3 weeks. 10 years on she still knows her own mind and is super stubborn but is fit and healthy and lived to tell the tale!

I ha this with dc1 and will be doing the same with dc2 also in October (although dc2 will be a year). Just use a sippy cup! This whole bottle thing becomes a nil point as baby gets older - I don’t know why people spend so much stress over getting an EBF baby to take a bottle when you blink and they can use have a sippy cup (not a dig at you I genuinely wish people spent less energy over it). I just bf mine in the eve and night, sippy cup in the day. It took a few goes of DH feeding her with sippy cup in the day, a few years of complaint from baby but otherwise fine. Also your dc may be eating well by then Too!