Hi all, just wondering if anyone else has come across this and how you managed it!
I have a 5 month old who's ebf but will take the odd bottle of expressed milk from dad no bother.
I tried leaving him for the first time with my parents and they took him up the road to a garden centre for lunch for a few hours. Apparently he was more than happy, took a great nap and was all smiles until they produced a bottle. Then he had a complete meltdown, refused the bottle and wouldn't calm down. I had to go up and feed him myself and he was more than happy to feed hungrily from the breast and then was back to all smiles for everyone. We're meant to be going to a wedding reception next week and his other grandparents would have been giving a bottle and now I'm really worried he might not take it for them. I also appreciated that my folks rang me to say they were struggling rather than letting him cry, whereas I know my in laws (with the best of intentions) haven't contacted my sil or bil when my nephew has been inconsolable because they didn't want to bother them and didn't want them to feel like they couldn't leave him again. Any advice on this? He took two bottles for his dad the night before while I was at the hairdresser no bother.
I'm very tempted to send dh on to the wedding reception himself and stay with baby?