Tomorrow I’m wanting to take my daughter out for mummy and daughter time (she’s 2) . I’m breast feeding my 6 week old and tried him with pumped breast milk in a bottle, a good few times so I can get that time with her but he won’t take it. He’s gagging on it. He also does the same with a dummy so doesn’t have that either
Any suggestions to what I can do to get him to take breast milk in a bottle
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What bottles are you using? It might be that he’d take different ones better. My daughter gags on her mam dummies sometimes but will take a tommee tippee bottle

It’s mam bottles and dummy I’ve tried

what’s tommee tippee bottles like? I’ve only ever used mam ones

we used them for my first who was also breastfed and never had issues and using them again. They’re supposed to have a breast like teat to help them take it

There’s also enzymes in your breast milk that if you have a high level of them it can affect the taste so maybe try tasting it to rule that out?

You could try using Nuk as well, I used to work in NICU and we used Nuk teats as they mimic the breast and have a slower flow, also anti colic. I’m planning on using them for our little one when he moves from breast to breast milk in a bottle fingers crossed he takes it 🤞

My daughter is close to 4 weeks old. Gagged on the mam dummies. She took the tommee tippee slow flow bottle from 3 weeks.

We use the lansinoh bottles and little one hasn’t had an issue with them, but she also takes the mam dummies okay.