Will weaning be a magic solution to my bottle refusing baby

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My baby is 5 months 1 week.
She is breast fed, but I’ve attempted to combi feed, unsuccesssfully. She has varied between taking small amounts of formula in a bottle to point blank refusing and hysterically screaming the place down.
Today was the latter, trying to be given a bottle from her grandparents while I had a few hours away.
I’m thinking about starting weaning shortly in the next week or so. Will this offer me any more freedom than the situation I’m currently in? Does anyone have any experiences of this?
My parents tried to give her in 2 different types of bottle and a sippy cup but she got very upset.
I just want to start having the odd couple of hours away here and there to get her used to it. She’s very very clingy to me and i want her to be able to cope without me when I go back to work at a year.
Thanks

Just keep offering the bottle it takes a while for some babies to get the hang of it. If I were you I’d only mix 30 mls of formula at once. It might take a couple of weeks.

I offered the bottle every day for months and months :-(
And the tomee tipee machine only makes 4oz bottles minimum frustratingly, so I waste a lot!!

We tried the bottle for months and months too, also no joy.

I had given up, probably hadn't tried in over a month and literally just tried because I didn't want to waste an ounce of milk and he drank the whole thing.

Might be worth just getting a powder scoop so you can try smaller quantities?

Mine would never take a bottle. Wasn’t great with water from a cup until we tried the 360 cups, which don’t have any kind of teat or spout (he just chewed them). I went back to work at 9 months, DS totally refused expressed milk in any bottle or cup, he ate well and had a little water from a cup then fed when I got home, bedtime, 3 times overnight and in the morning (google reverse cycling), I was almost on my knees with tiredness but DS was fine. At a year we offered cows milk in a 360 cup and he took it without issue - I don’t know why the heck we never tried formula I the cup!!

My DD seems a lot better with a bottle now we have started weaning. I have a feeling it is that she now understands that food may come from somewhere other than my boob - no scientific basis for this, and maybe it’s nothing to do with it, but whatever the reason she is doing better with the bottle now she is a bit further on

Weaning made no difference to my now almost 10 month old.

I have my sister's hen do in a month (which I have organised) and due to be away for 2 nights. WTF do I do? My DD feeds in the morning when she wakes up, around lunchtime and then before bed. She refuses both water and milk.
DH is threatening to book into the same hotel so i can still feed her

My DD wouldn't have a bottle. She got EBM with a spoon and an open cup. Then from 4.5 months it got mixed into porridge and cereal. She did OK. Once they realize you are not around, they get serious about eating some food.

My son never took a bottle but I went back to work early, he was weaned at 5 months and at 6 months he was fully weaned. I offered water in the bottle and let him play with it for a few days, then I offered breast milk which was a big fat no, a couple days after he’d take an ounce of water so I switched to formula in the bottle and he now drinks that perfectly at 6 months after about a week of trying with water. He will however refuse breast milk in there.

No. One of my kids never took a bottle even when I had to leave her 8 hours per day, 5 days per week for 3 months between 6 and 9 months old (working out my notice after maternity leave).

She was fine though - breastfed in the car before dropping her off and as soon as I picked her up. She drank water from one of those weird open cups at a funny angle - can't remember what they're called - with help or less enthusiastically from a basic, hard spit Tommy Tippy cup. She wouldn't drink from anything even vaguely bottle like and wouldn't drink milk (expressed or formula) from either of the cups she drank water from.

She ate very well when away from me though - but wouldn't be spoon fed either - she'd chow down on a plate of broccoli or absolutely anything as long as she could eat with her fingers.

She was a very healthy baby and a complete butter ball, very solid and also walked at 9 months so she certainly didn't suffer for not getting milk 8 hours per day.

On the other hand she continued to wake to breastfeed at night during that time and only stopped once she was breastfeeding in the day again...

DD was a bottle refuser. I tried endlessly but no joy. At 18 mi the she's the Bly just started drinking water properly. Had all manner of problems with constipation when she started weaning.

She was able to go much longer between feeds from about 8 mi the though. She's been an amazing eater from the start so at least that's something.

I woukdnt waste your time with the bottles, at 6 montgs they can go straight to sippy cups and open cups. Doing both is probably confusing her.

Try to focus on the now rather than guessing how she'll be in 7 months. My DS was the same. Boob only. He gradually started taking from a cup but it did take time. If I felt he needed more water is put it in his food.

You can start to go out now just time it around your breast feeds. I used to stay upstairs to start with so DS got used to me not being tgere for a bit and then when I was confident he was ok I went out for a bit .

It can feel like it's all on you due to the bf but I guess that's partly why mother nature created it that way.