Breast fed baby refusing bottle

[Becca442]

My DD is 10 weeks old and we are trying to introduce one bottle of my expressed milk a day so my partner can feed her. She refused for weeks then suddenly went a week taking to the bottle. Then all of a sudden she stopped and now screams the house down when we try and give her a bottle. We give her it the same time each night and tried mam bottles, tommee tippee slow flow and vari flow teats but had no joy with them! She was using the mam bottles until she suddenly stopped.
Anyone got any advice or tips on what we can do to get her to drink from a bottle? I love feeding her but I have a few events coming up and I want to feel confident she will feed while I am away!!
thanks in advance!!

It might be that she can smell you, so give the bottle to your partner and clear off out of the room completely.
If that doesn’t work, try wrapping the bottle in a top that you’ve worn, so it smells like you.
And if that doesn’t work, start the feed at the breast and then once she has had some milk try switching to the bottle whilst she is still in breastfeeding position. Sometimes this can work with younger babies until they have built the association between the bottle and their tummy being filled with milk.
Try warming the milk and bottle teat slightly.

Best of luck! Apparently you have to keep trying every day to get them used to it. I never managed it - my boy absolutely would not have a bottle.

Maybe try a cup? 10 weeks is young, but maybe you'll have better luck with that. When I weaned he took to a cup instantly.

I also had a child that absolutely refused a bottle and dummy, so good luck !