Hi, thanks in advance for any help.
My daughter is 15 weeks old. She’s been exclusively breastfed by my wife and right from the go has been a very strong breast feeder. At about 9 weeks, we decided to try and introduce a bottle of breast milk for a variety of reasons. She hated it at first - full on refusal so we took it gently and for the last month or so she has been at a stage where she is happy having the teat in her mouth but she has only properly latched and sucked once. Sadly we haven’t been able to repeat that performance!
Here’s what we’re doing and what we’ve tried:
- Me (dad) bottle feeding with Mum out the house (and Mum in house but other room)
- multiple types of bottles (Tommy tippee, mam, nuk, Madela).
- various flow types
- feeding in bouncer or on lap usually
- usually try feeding first thing in morning or early evening
- weve never tried leaving her to get really hungry. The most my wife has left for is a few hours.
on most occasions she will only take about 10-15ml and then she becomes frustrated and irritable so I stop. She tends to use her tongue a lot on the teat but doesn’t really latch and suck.
does anyone have anything else we should try? I appreciate some babies never quite get it and we’re ok if that’s the case but it would be great if she did.
thanks in advance!!