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Hello. Both my babies won’t and wouldn’t take a bottle. It turns out I had high lipase which can make the milk taste funny when expressed. Have you only tried a bottle with breast milk in or formula as well? Because it may not be the bottle it could be the milk. I went through every bottle under the sun with my daughter and then I found out she would take formula in any bottle just not breast milk x
@ruby yeah I've tried different bottled, when she was young she would take a bottle but then just stopped x
@Aimee it could potentially be my milk, she has previously drank it from a bottle though so I'm not sure 🙈 I may try her with some formula, most of the time I'm fine just feeding her but I feel like I can't really make plans to do anything on my own!
I’m in the same boat it’s annoying isn’t it xx
Hello, we've introduced the formula bottle at around 4 month old, as the last feed before bed as we initially thought that I had less milk in the evening. It worked pretty well so far, less pressure on me, no more wondering if she had enough and she is waking up less during the night. And daddy is really happy to be part of the night routine, feeding her the bottle and putting her to bed whilst I can rest a bit and have some me time ☺️
@Aimee yeah, I met my friends for food the other night and she just screamed whilst with dad, he couldn't put her to bed or anything 🙃 just feels like a lot of pressure now! X
@Melanie has your baby taken the bottle fine? She would take it when younger but just refuses it now xx
It’s very common, my best advice is that it doesnt last forever. Have you tried milk in a sippy cup x
The first year is like this. You just have to wait. Especially if baby won't take a bottle. Try syringe, cup or sippy cup good luck.
i could’ve written this myself ! -also 6 1/2 months, also won’t take a bottle and also feeds to sleep. i have a hen do coming up in a few months and have thought of every solution possible! we have tried lots of bottles and none of them have worked so we have started to introduce an open top cup and then the silicone tum tum cup for warm milk. I think it’ll be a way off until she could have a full feed from one but will be handy on the off time x
My baby wouldn’t take a tommee tippee bottle so we tried mam and she will drink from them. have you tried using a different bottle?