BF baby refusing bottle of any milk

[kathryn77]

Please can anyone advise.

DS 5 months & exclusive BF. Had expressed bCK IN NOVEMBER & He drank it from avent bottle fine for a few months, not regularly, once/twice a week.

Now refuses bottles completely, tried my milk & formula. Compleetey refuses.

Any advice? Am exhasuted as stopped sleeping too and want hubby to b able to lighten load.

Thanks

Try first thing in the morning when baby is really hungry and well rested? My ds takes the tommee tippee bottle much better than the avent (dd was fine with avent, shows they're all different!). We also have to make the formula quite warm for him to take it. (I'm bf my 4mo but he has one bottle a day).
I'm sure someone with more/better tips will be along soon.

Thank you, had thought about tommy typpee, may get one.

Will try in morn, thanks

I have exactly the same problem with my dd (3 months). Have tried avent and tommy tippee bottles, with both expressed milk and formula, and at all times of day, but she still screams hysterically as soon as the teat touches her lips. Any suggestions would be really appreciated...

A baby of 5 mths can use a cup with help - honestly, it is not worth the fighting and the struggle to insist on a bottle, when the baby doesn't actually need it! Use an egg cup, and tip it to the baby's lips. Later on, other cups can be used.

I had the same problem with my 6 1/2 month old and had tried 4 different types of bottles and countless cups. This weekend we have suddenly had success after three weeks of trying to offer her a bottle daily. I have found that a NUK bottle with latex teats rather than silicone is acceptable to madam, and for the last 4 days, so far so good.

We initally tried offering it to her while walking about and singing "heads shoulders knees and toes" and this was the only way she'd take anything from it, but after a couple of days she's now more than happy to drink from it with slightly less strict rules of engagement!

I wouldn't have persisted for so long if I wasn't going back to work next week, but it's such a relief to know that she's happy with a bottle before starting nursery.

Also, try giving baby a bottle in the bath, as this had a small amount of success early on.

Can't really help, other than to express sympathy as I'm going through exactly the same with my 5 1/2 month old. I am now trying the breastflow system from mothercare, which he will actually allow in his mouth, but he doesn't know what to do with it then I don't want to jump straight to a cup - want him to stay a cuddly baby for a bit longer! I'm beginning to get a bit stressed about it as I am going abroad for the weekend at the beginning of March and am not intending to come back to feed him! I read the Baby Whisperer on this subject - her advice sounds quite brutal but may try it if all else fails.

hi, can relate to this and started a thread on a similar subject a few weeks ago myself. Have a 4MO ds. He has been pretty much exclusively BF but he did take a bottle of expressed milk on a few occasions in the early weeks. I stupidly didnt continue with that and now he wont take any more than 2oz at any time and screams the place down while DH tries to feed him. Apparently the ideal time to introduce a bottle is at about 4 weeks acc to a MW I spoke to. I have decided it isnt worth the stress and upset for the odd early night but good luck to the rest of you!!

I had this problem with my DD. She refused every kind of bottle (and I tried them all!) But we didn't have a choice as she was not well (hole in heart) and therefore had to be FF on high fat formula. The thing the worked was asking a good friend of mine (who has two kids of her own & experience of bottle feeding) to try & feed DD. I went to her place about an hour before feeding time so that DD could get used her place etc. Then when DD started getting hungry I went out to the supermarket for approx 40 mins. I came back and she had drunk 1.5oz - doesn't sound much but for her was great! After that DH tried FF every evening and she would take it from him. Unfortunately she never wanted a bottle from me (could smell my milk I think!) and so I went cold turkey whilst we were on a family holiday - not recommended but we needed her to take the high fat formula!
Hope this idea helps some of you!