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Hi hoping someone might offer some advice please.


I have an 8 week old girl who just wont take a bottle. I need to be back running my business part time very soon so this is an absolute must that we succeed.


Baby took to the bottle at week 4 several times on expressed milk and finished off bottles and now for some reason she just won't play ball.


Have tried Advent, Tommy Tippee CTN and various age teats and yet still nothing doing.


Starting to panic and need some help.


Used to try the bottle at 10.30 but she was just to tired and too disinterested so now trying at 6-6.30 after bath and still nothing. It's always my other half who tried to feed her and I try not to be in the same room to avoid her smelling me.


Hope someone can help

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Hi Nicnos,


I found that by getting someone else to give the bottle at first made a big difference. This doesn't usually mean someone else always has to give the feed it just means that baby gets used to milk from the bottle without the smell of you and your milk which can often be the reason for the baby not wanting to take the bottle from you. As Fuschia says it is also down to persistance. Good Luck and keep trying :)

My first took the bottle fine, and then we had a two week break for one reason or another, and just when I had to go back to work like yours she refused. I'm afraid, i found with her that she would go through one feed without taking it, but never two! And after a couple of days of that pattern without me there and with our nanny feeding her she just went along with it. Sounds a bit mean, but she didn't starve!

my son is older than yours but seems to have decided that bottles are highly boring and won't feed from them. we're finding that the slanted "doidy cup" is a life-saver.

http://www.bickiepegs.co.uk/acatalog/Bickiepegs_on_line_About_the_Doidy_7.html

might be worth a try?

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