Stopping breastfeeding at 6 months

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My dd is 6 months old and I'm wanting to stop breastfeeding. However she just will not take a bottle! I've tried everything, changing the teats, using a sippy cup etc. But she just screams and screams.

She has started weaning but only a little bit so she's just having some fruit purée at dinner time for example.

Has anyone had any experience of this? Should I just not give in and she will take the bottle eventually?! I'm finding this so hard

You can play it hard core and offer nothing but the bottle until she takes it (and she will eventually). But, if you're willing to stick it out until she's a little older, I think you'll find it easier to stop.

It would have been an absolute nightmare to stop my DS at 6 months. However, when we eventually did stop at 10.5, he was remarkably unbothered.

The more she gets used to food coming in different forms, the more she'll grow to understand that BF isn't the be all and end all. Do you give her water in a sippy cup? We started this with my DS at 6 months with his meals and it helped him get used to taking liquids in other ways. And by 10.5 months my son was eating a wide variety of foods and breast milk seemed to have dropped down his list of priorities quite significantly

My DS was like this and MAM bottles worked a treat as well as making sure that the formula was warm. He would also never take ebm from a bottle. Liked his wine in a wine glass so to speak!

Dd always refused bottles, then after about a month of weaning she had got used to food coming in different forms and suddenly took one. Maybe a gradual approach might be better? Slowly drop a feed at a time. We've also syringe fed DD on occasion.

Is there any particular reason you want to stop BF? I found it really hard around the 6 month mark and nearly gave up, but it's much easier now.