Bottle refusal

Just looking for some advice. My baby has just turned 4 months. I will be returning to work in about a month.

He is an EBF baby and for the past few weeks I have tried to introduce a bottle ( breast milk) to him in advance of him being left with nursery/ parents next month.

He has a complete meltdown and doesn’t like it being anywhere near his mouth. So far, I have tried different bottles ( MAM and Lasinoh), different temperatures, formula and breast milk, mum/ partner feeding him whilst I’m out of the room.

I have gone to a breastfeeding support group which had just similar suggestions. We have tried to keep being positive when trying to feed him, playing and high voices etc. but not having much luck.

Would anyone have any similar stories, any advice etc. I would be very grateful for any little tips 😂

Thank you in advance 😊

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No advice but I’m going through the same thing. Mine doesn’t scream she just doesn’t latch on, she bites it and smiles at her dad

Find a lactation counselor. At this age babies lose their automatic sucking reflex so introducing a bottle to them is foreign but can be done. You might to have to experiment w a different nipples to get him to take the bottle.

I went through this my little one refused from a month old and I didn’t get her back on them till she was 8 months
Tried EVERYTHING.
I managed to get her to take some milk from a straw cup now and then (recommend a tum tum as it doesn’t have a valve)
At 8 months I was in so much pain that I just cut her off one day and offered bottle/sippy/straw/open cup just to get something in her - she still wasn’t taking the bottle. I breastfed her before bedtime only
But the next day I stuck to it and offered the bottle again and she took it (it was MAM, teat number 2, ps I’d bought every bottle type I could find and it made no difference so I wouldn’t waste your money) and now she has 3/4 bottles per day
She wasn’t crying for boob those days I think I just got lucky with that otherwise I probably would have given in. I know how hard it is but only thing that eventually worked for me was just flat out boob refusal

My son was same. He was fed with a spoon and cup

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