12 week old refusing bottle after taking it before, any advice?

[ThatMellowSloth]

My 12 week old baby is breastfed. When he was born I was also pumping and we introduced the bottle when he was a week old. Since then he had a nighttime bottle up until 8 weeks when we noticed a change. He started rejecting the bottle grimacing and pulling off and crying. I have taken breaks and tried again but he still isn’t fully taking it he will latch on a couple of times and drink a little bit but a very small amount. I have tried different bottles and teats, I will also leave the room and my husband feeds him the bottle but none of this seems to work.
Any advice would be appreciated I really need a break!!

When mine did this (moons ago!) we tried what was called a doidy cup as an alternative which is a move from teat to cup. That seemed to work. Good luck!

Try getting your husband to do the bottle as a dream feed without waking the baby.

We did try this once and it did work but didn’t do it again as I didn’t see the point in him only being able to take it when sleeping

I understand the desire for bottle feeding but in the meantime it's important at only 12 weeks to keep feeding levels high so can you feed and then hand to your husband to do the settling?

I can do this but I’m wanting him to take the bottle more for when I need to leave the baby with my husband not at night time

Im so sorry as this isnt what you will want to hear but I had this with DC1 and in the end they never took a bottle. I managed with sippy cups / cups when I had to absolutely go somewhere but I just kept it under 4 hours for the first 6/7 months. Once they started on the solids it was much better they were reslly happy with food and water till i was back.

I know that probably seems a million miles away at 12 weeks but I promise it flies by. I hope you find something that works for you!