I've tried every day for a fortnight to get my bfed baby to take a bottle....

[Jojay]

He's 6 months.

We're BLW and it's going fine but he's not actually eating a huge amount and may not be for the forseeable future.

I go back to work when he is 9.5 months old, and because I know he may not be eating loads, I need to know that he's drinking milk.

I leave the house before 6 am when I'm at work so a morning bfeed isn't an option, though a evening feed would be fine.

I need to hear positive stories about babies who refused a bottle for oever a fornight then suddenly started taking one

Anyone?

I'm using an Avent no 3 teat on the basis that he used to take it every night form 2 wks till he wen ton strike at 3 months.

DH, MIL and a friend have all tried to give him a bottle too, so it's not that he won't take it from me, he won't take it from anyone.

ARRRHHHHHH!

I started trying to give a bottle to DD at 4 months. She fginally took it 1 week before i went back to work at 8 months.

Have you tried a cup instead?

Avent v good at marketing themselves, but lots of bf babies don't seem to take to their teats at all. Might be worth trying a MAM or NUK teat.

i think either a cup or Tommee Tippee Closer To NAture are good

we also had some success with NUK

DS never drank from Avent

I am in the same situation - although heading back to work a bit sooner.

I tried an Avent bottle but my DD didn't seem to have a clue what to do with it and a cup took forever (i.e. 40mls in an hour, mostly down her front). I was preparing to do the rounds of bottles/teats when my sister gave me a Breastflow bottle and it has actually worked! Admittedly, I have only been using it for one feed for the past three days but she has gone from 50mls on the first day to 150mls today.

I plan to introduce it for another feed next week and then gradually phase out BF altogether (to accommodate my poor breasts really...). I am happy feeding her in the morning and evening for a while longer if possible but she really has to take a bottle when she goes to nursery.

So it might be a case of trying a different type of bottle or, given that you have longer than me, a cup. In any case, I can definitely recommend the Breastflow! A friend of mine also recommended MAM as the only one her BF baby would take when the time came.

Good luck - I know it is stressful!

Oh - also, I forgot that she drinks better sitting in her bouncy chair rather than me holding her!