How do you introduce a bottle? Is 12 weeks too late?

[phdlife]

dd is 12 weeks ebf but I'd like to get her to take a bottle of ebm from dh. we've had two go's that were utter failures, think the teat flow was too fast because she just didn't know what to do with it. I gave her a bit of bf first so she wasn't too hungry, was that a mistake?

any hints/tips please?

Hi we are just starting again with introducing a bottle for ds (he's 6.5months!) and didn't like it the first couple of times.

We changed to Tommee Tippee bottles with a one hole teat (newborn size) and he seems to be happy with that.

I don't feed him first as I feel then he would know what he was missing IYSWIM?

HTH

that's a fair point, might try it like that.

got another teat, some American ones sent by my dsis. will see if dd likes the slower flow better.

12 weeks isn't too late but don't distress your baby. If it doesn't work, leave it a few days and start again.

I introduced a teat when going back to work which ranged between 10 and 18 weeks with babes (I have 4).

I did start a breast feed and once milk was flowing slipped breast out and teat in. Babies didn't seem to care!