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Baby refusing bottle

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Rya2710 · 04/03/2018 11:00

My daughter is 11 months old and has been ebf, I wanted to stop last month but I have tried everything to get her to take a bottle and she won’t. She eats solids amazingly well but just will not drink. It’s gotten to a point where I’m having to syringe her water because she’s also beginning to refuse me feeding her. I’ve tried bottles (nearly every brand and spent hundreds) cups, straws everything she just refuses and screams the house down. I’m getting really upset with it because I don’t want to be breastfeeding anymore but I can’t see how to get her to drink something else:-( I tried not breastfeeding her for a day and offering her the bottles and cups instead but she just went without until I caved and breastfed her. Does anyone have any tips that might help, I feel completely lost with what to do:-( I don’t know if there’s a certain way I should be going about it or certain bottles to buy but at this rate she’ll be bf until she’s 30 hahah, thank you in advance xxx

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Moo31 · 08/04/2018 21:46

Following as my 5mo is also a bottle refuser so interested in reading replies!

Ilovechocolate111 · 23/04/2018 20:07

I had this with my son at 14months old. This was the only way I got him to drink (he loved paw patrol on tv)
We went shopping for cups bottle beakers ect to try n get him to drink. We came across a paw patrol beaker which was 6+ months n he was obsessed with it.! He would only drink from beaker and I never got pestered again for boob! Lovely... thanks paw patrol xx

MollyDaydream · 23/04/2018 20:12

I stopped breastfeeding at 12 or 13 months and DS just never drank cows milk!
He did drink water though.

scaredofthecity · 23/04/2018 20:13

I know it's not ideal but I used nesquik for my DS when he was about 10mo and I went back to work.
I started off with it quite sweet and gradually weaned him off over about 10 days. It was made harder as he was CMPI and the prescription formula was foul.

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