Any tips for EBF baby to take a bottle?

I find my girl takes the bottle best first thing in the morning, I guess because they tend to get grouchier as the day goes on.

There’s definitely an ideal mood that’s hard to obtain - she needs to be hungry enough to take it, but not so hungry that she’s going to cry and want the comfort of breastfeeding.

I find it can take her a solid 10+ mins to take even 30ml, but I keep offering it and eventually she takes me up on the offer.

It’s important not to force it on them, let them refuse it and re-offer a few moments later

yeah I tried first thing today as that’s his happiest and he screamed as soon as it touched his mouth, it was awful.

You’re definitely right there with the perfect mood. I’m almost put of trying now because if he starts his wake window upset it’s hard to come back from it ☹️!

My little boy was the same. He used to take a bottle a day and all of a sudden after his 8 week jabs be came Very fussy. I found that getting ahead of the hunger works. For example at the time I used to feed mine every 3 hours and I used to get the bottle ready and feed him at 2.5 hours and so I didn't let him get to the hungry stage where he cries for it and he took it perfectly. I also found that mid feed if he burped and took a break he wouldn't take it again because he likes it at the perfect temperature 😂 we have nicknamed him Goldilocks because of it 😂. I hope this helps!

this started after we had our 12 week ones too!! That’s a really good idea with the ahead of hunger, I will give that a try thank you. Also absolutely the same with the temperature thing.. we’d stop to burp too and then that was it he wouldn’t take anymore! Fussy things aren’t they 😂

Agreed! I really hope it does work if you get ahead of the feed time. Another thing is also we stopped burping mid way because he's not really had a problem releasing the burps at the end - this has helped in finishing the full feed quite quickly.

If your LO is asleep when your milk is ready don't bother waking them just pop a drop of milk on their lips and they might take it whilst sleeping (this helped us a lot too)

thanks for your help they are really good tips! Thank you ☺️! X

Maybe try feeding from one boob and then offer the bottle, just so He gets used to it again. He might be happy/full enough not to get upset?

I could have wrote this myself! Struggling with the same problem with my 14 week old. 🤦‍♀️😩

I had the same problem for weeks. I then tried giving him a bottle of formula instead of expressed breast milk and he took a full 5oz! Not sure if he just associated the breast milk with me and was frustrated not getting it his usual way! I’m going to try again now with breast milk in it instead but it is a relief to know I can now leave him with family or his dad can feed him x