Bottle trouble

Feeling pretty defeated and like I set my son up. Going back to work soon and we’ve been trying the bottle with my 3 month old with no success. I don’t know how to properly introduce it or how long we should try it before saying we hid bottle isn’t working. It mostly seems like he doesn’t know the right way to suck it. His mouth is really open and most of it is getting on his onesie; then he gets frustrated. Please any tips…don’t hold the jersey against him, that’s his dads team 🙄

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What size nipple are you using? I noticed my girl gets frustrated & tired with the nipple size being too small and it spills all over her clothes and neck.

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My son had the best luck with evenflo bottles or the wide mouth nuk simply natural. They mimic the breast and the nuk even has a few holes like breastfeeding

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hmmm that’s what’s happening to him. I’m not sure the exact size. We’ve tried nanobe, nuk and bono so far; whatever size they come in. Do you know if any brands that differ the nipple sizes? The only thing I’ve seen is a different flow

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thank you! Is this a specific kind of dr browns, would you happen to know the name?

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Dr. Brown’s Natural Flow Anti-Colic Options+ Wide-Neck Baby Bottle, 5 oz/150 mL, Level 1 Nipple, 2-Pack, Clear, 0m+

I got mine at Walmart

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Try MAM if you can.

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thank you! We tried the nuk but I don’t know if it was the wide mouth one.

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thank you 🙏🏾

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thank you

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Mine is the same....We've been trying here and there diff bottles, times, people etc. He's only successfully done it when I had to have emergency surgery and couldn't breastfeed him for 24hours. .so he literally had to eat from a bottle and finally gave in. That was heartbreaking and I wish we did it differently.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ThW_0qB7OIg

Here's a good video on paced bottle feeding a breastfed baby that could be helpful! Good luck! Keep trying!

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I’ve heard of people not letting the baby feed by breast and they will eventually take bottle cause they are hungry… I feel like that would be hard for me but I started giving my baby a pacifier just a lil so that she would learn to suck other option that when I tried a bottle again she was great!

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yeah I don’t think I can refuse him food. I also still plan to nurse. Unfortunately he’s not a pacifier guy

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Try Evenflo bottles instead they’re the best to use when using in combination to breastfeeding

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thanks for sharing but persistent like what? What routine helped that happen? How was baby being fed when you were at work before giving in?

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oh ok. I work full time so that probably won’t work for me, thanks

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I ebf my boy until I went back to work. We have tried so many bottles but he seems like like comotomo. It makes sense to me that he likes it because it is really similar to a boob the nipple is soft.

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thank you!

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