Bottle feeding expert needed for 8 week old

[smileman]

I am going back to work soon and need to teach my 8 week old daughter to take a bottle. She is exclusively breastfed up till this point. We have been practicing with bottles of expressed milk, but she is now becoming very frustrated when I offer her the bottle.

We need help finding a solution for her to feed while I am away.

If you have experience feeding babies and can work with us this August, please contact us.

Also, if you have any advice or recommendations for people to contact or strategies to try, please post.

Thanks!

[CocoC]

Hello

I worked with a local maternity nurse to help me with a similar conundrum. Happy to PM you the details if useful. The tips I picked up were:

1) Start with someone else (not Mum) feeding her as she'll just smell mummy milk and want that

2) Try feeding while cradling her and walking around the house

3) Try the 'disembodied arm' where you pop her in her bouncy chair/ swing and sneak the bottle round the front

I've heard that the Night Nannies agency also have bottle-feeding experts they can send to you.

Hope this helps, good luck

[sb]

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[CFM]

I had very similar issues with my third, after having no trouble with first two. In the end, I hired a Night Nannies "trouble shooter" who came for four hours over two days (to fit in two feeds each day) and totally got him onto the bottle. Brilliant. She won't do anything you wouldn't do, but is much more persistent and gives you the encouragement to continue. I still do combination feeding, but can at least be sure that if I leave the house the baby can take a bottle. One good piece of advice from the Night Nannies lady was not to bother with different types of teat - if you want them on Avent, insist on Avent. I've heard Dr Brown etc works for others, but we did get Number Three on bog-standard Avent in the end. Good luck!