my bf 3 mo lo will not take bottle

[kayasmama]

My 3 month old lo will not take a bottle! She was taking 1-2 a week, and all of a sudden she has been refusing for the last 2 weeks. We have been offering it to her every day, and she will fuss, take some, and then scream. We try to calm her and then restart. She will eventually take it, but then is exhausted and falls back to sleep. Do I offer her the breast if she does not finish. She will probably wake at night to eat more than she already is if she does not eat more. She has to take a bottle by next week since I am going back to work. Are we doing this right, or just causing more stress? All of us are stressed at this point.

[* Paula *]

Have you tried warming the teat?  Warming the milk to a different temperature?

Have you tried another bottle?

I would personally pick one feed of hte day and stick to it, say when your lo is at her hungriest and let your DH offer it to your lo so that your lo does not smell your BM on you.

[Mellebags]

DD was EBM until @ 12 wko when we introduced a bottle - she refused point blank to take it  - she acted as if we were feeding her battery acid and screamed every time we put the teat in front of her mouth - it didn't matter whether it was me or DP that tried.

In the end my Mum came to stay with us and she was the one that got LO to accept the bottle - I made sure I wasn't in the room and Mum gave her a bottle as a DF - she only took 2oz - but she took it.

The next day Mum gave her another bottle (once again without me being in the room) and this time she drained the bottle - minx  . I then gave her the DF and she took it from me. DD is not the greatest feeder (she takes @ 2-4ox each feed) but she is now totally bottle fed

I found LO likes the MAM bottles ( they do great ones in girly pink!)

I think the best advice I can give is try to get Nanna / sister/ friend to introduce the bottle, ensure LO cannot see (or more importantly smell ) you close by, experiment with teats and temperature of milk

Good luck Hun, hope all goes well

Mel
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[cb123]

I had this problem with my ds and I agree with pp try different people and you need to be out of the room, just out of sight isn't good enough.

Good luck!!!