how can we get our breastfed babies to take a bottle?

[luckycat2]

Hi,

In my NCT group 5 of us are trying to get our breastfed babies to take a bottle of expressed milk. We'd just like some time to ourselves now and again and it would be great if our partners or the grandparents could take the babies for a couple of hours.
The problem is that none of us can get our babies to drink from a bottle! The babies are all around 2 months old. We have tried a variety of bottles and teats.
Any tips or advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks very much.

We got DD to start taking a bottle of expressed milk at about 4 months. What eventually worked for us, after a lot of trying. Was a bit of a combination of things.....
Nuk bottles with the latex teats.
I’d breast feed (smallish feed) her so she wasn’t starving hungry, then dad would bath her and give her the bottle afterwards.
He’d feed her with his shirt off and with one of my tops/pjs against her so she had that comfort and skin on skin feeling.
And he’d have to kind of jiggle/rock her while standing up, until she started drinking.

He did have to preserve a little and I’d have to be out of the way. And it seemed to help if she was a little sleepy but not over tired. We stuck to the same tine and routine for a few weeks and after that she was happy to take a bottle at anytime of day. Although not from me!