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Baby will only take bottle from strangers

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whywhywhat · 04/07/2017 19:29

I have a 10 weeks old who has started refusing the bottle from myself or my husband. He will take it from somebody else but fusses and cries and pushes the nipple out with his tongue if we try to feed him. We introduced a bottle when he was 4 weeks and although he's never been great at it, he used to take it from us and drink at a dreamfeed, but now no! We've tried Madela, dr browns and Mam nipples and different temps of milk. It's expressed breast milk. If he doesn't start taking the bottle I'm not going to be able to have a life or go anywhere without him and I'm soooooo tired I just can't! We have been trying once a day at his second feed at 10:30am.

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firsttimemummy24 · 04/07/2017 19:56

Is it just with you or your OH as well? If he takes it from others and just not you maybe he can smell your milk which is why he is refusing the bottle as he would prefer the breast?

Have you tried being in a different room when attempting to bottle feed so he can't get distracted by you?

I am no expert I'm afraid do not sure I'm right but I really hope you can get it sorted.

Xx

whywhywhat · 04/07/2017 21:15

He won't take from OH whether I'm in the house or not, but he'll take from someone else while I'm in the room....it's very strange and my OH will start looking after him two days a week, so I'm hoping he starts taking it otherwise don't know what we'll do. Do you think it would help if we used formula?

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