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Weaning onto bottles - help!!

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Elly88 · 25/11/2020 10:52

I'm sure this gets asked all the time but needing advice on how to get my LO onto bottles. For work reasons I need her fully on bottles by February, though hoping to still breastfeed at any night wakes. She's currently 9 weeks old and been exclusively breastfed. I've tried a handful of times giving a bottle and she just screams and cries and flat out refuses. I've tried ready made formula and freshly expressed milk, it's just the bottle she will not take. She won't take a dummy either, just gags on it which she also does on the bottle. I have the mam bottles I was hoping to use, have tried the mini cow and Gate ready bottles with the teats included that I had in her hospital bag and yesterday she did suck a little on that, though barely drank any milk. But today nothing but screaming. Feeling so stressed knowing I've not got long and worrying she'll lose weight. At the moment obviously I'm ending up breastfeeding her. Only trying once a day at the minute, should it be more? Tried in the evening and in the morning, no success. Keep reading about those Minbie bottles and if they're worth the money trying.
All help welcome!!

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JiltedJohnsJulie · 25/11/2020 10:55

I think you're right to try one feed a day for now. Have you got someone else who can give her one of the feeds?

pjani · 25/11/2020 15:07

There's another thread about this which I found helpful as I have a bottle refuser. Apparently at 6 months the nursery will offer drinks in a cup and the baby will be ok feeding before, after and all through the night.

JiltedJohnsJulie · 25/11/2020 15:29

pjani that's exactly what we did. We did all feeds we could BFing and baby had cups of milk whilst I was at work. It did help that I only worked part time though and baby was a bit older and on solids Smile

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