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tired1245 · 13/03/2020 19:58

Just looking for a bit of advice please!
My baby's 7 weeks old, she's been EBF up until now, I've started expressing milk so my partners able to help out with feeding, at the minute we've just been trying it with 1 bottle in the evening but she won't take the bottle from him, she'll only take it from me. She gets very upset when he tries to give her a bottle.
I'm going on my sisters hen party beginning of April, it's just for a day and an evening and I'll only be 10 mins away from home, I was hoping to go on it but with how she's being I won't be able to. Obviously if it doesn't improve I won't go as I can't leave her like that, but any tips on how to help her take milk from somebody that's not me and get comfort from somebody else? As right now I'm the only one that can settle her.
Thankyou x

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HavelockVetinari · 13/03/2020 20:05

Try sleeping in one of your DP's t-shirts and then get him to wear it whilst feeding. Also make sure you go out - often dads fail because they don't persevere beyond the initial refusal phase of crying. Leave him to it for 2 hours, baby wont starve in that time and he'll have a proper go at it rather than handing DC over at the first sign of tears.

tired1245 · 13/03/2020 20:13

@HavelockVetinari I went for a bath and left him to it with a bottle, but she gets herself in such a state, she didn't stop crying the whole time, she couldn't catch her breathe sometimes she was crying that much. I wouldn't be able to leave the house knowing that she's going to be crying the whole time

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