Advice needed on getting a baby to drink from bottle

[marcos02]

Hello,

We have a 3 month old baby who just refuses to drink milk from a bottle.

I am breast feeding her, but I have expressed some milk for her to drink from a bottle so that she gets used to drinking out of bottle, but it's a no no from her.

Can anyone help us please?

Thank you

[Fuschia]

Try a nuk latex newborn teat or breast flow

[Pamela78]

We had the same problem with our son. I tried everything - different bottles, expressed milk, different formulas, different temperatures, different people offering the bottle! I got so frustrated, I gave up trying for a while. I didn't think he'd ever take a bottle - but suddenly, after a bit of a break, he began taking formula from the MAM self sterilising bottles.

Now he's 8 months old and he happily takes all his milk from the MAM bottles - what a relief! I've heard good things about the nuk latext teat from others with a similar issue.

So keep trying, but if you or she are getting stressed about it, take a break for a while and then try again. Good luck!

[Lacey]

My reluctant bottle feeder finally took a bottle at about 5 months after trying lots of different bottles and techniques. Maybe he was just ready for it but the bottles that worked for us were the Playtex Drop-ins. They are a bit of a faff with the separate liners though. We got ours online but I've seen them on sale in Fourway Pharmacy in Herne Hill.

[supergolden88]

If you want to try the Playtex drop in system I have a bottle, 3 teats (1 silicone, 2 latex) and an unopened box of the liners. I intended to put the lot for sale in classified so let me know if you are interested. It cost something like ?16 for the lot including postage I will probably be selling for half that.

I also have a number or other bottles (Tommy Tippee, Nuk, Avent) you can have for free if you want to try them.

In the end it's a combination of persistance, baby being ready and offering bottle same time daily so baby gets used to it.

[srisky]

Our baby was happily being bottle fed the last feed of the night by my husband from about 2 weeks of age. After a few weeks she suddenly started refusing the bottle and would only take it if we lay her down on the bed/floor/moses basket i.e she would feed from the bottle when she wasn't being held - maybe being held led her to believe she would be getting the breast, who knows(?) but it worked! Maybe try this before splasing the cash. Good luck!

[supergolden88]

yes I did mean to say my son only finally took the bottle sitting in his bouncy chair. I think being away from my boobs helped!

[marcos02]

Hello,

Thank you for all your advice.

Will try them.

Also thank you to supergolden88 for your advice and offer. Have pm you.