Breastfed baby refusing bottles starting nursery in few months

Try a cup? X

omg I’ve been doing this for water with food but not even thought about putting milk in it. Brill! Thank you xx

Mine will take from his sippy cup but not a bottle.. but he won't feed anywhere as much as he should if I leave him for several hours so I'm worried too!

How many feeds a day are you doing? By 8 months my sleep /feeding lady said they only need around 4 feeds in 24 hours. How old will your baby be when they start nursery?
My baby is EBF and doesn’t take milk from a bottle but she’ll be a year when nursery starts for her, so I’m thinking out of sight out of mind.
Someone I know struggled with sorting something out and she said her boy just went to nursery, ate his solid food and was fine. He then just had milk at home.

I feel like you do but hope this is somewhat reassuring xx

my boy is EBF too, and I have a toddler, so to be honest, I’ve not really been tracking because life has been so busy 🫣I just breastfeed on demand! But now you said that I’m going to start tracking this week! He doesn’t take a dummy either, so I’m feeder and soother 😬 he’ll be 11 months when he starts, I really hope that is the case with me! Thank you so much for sharing that has really reassured me xxx

No worries at all hun. I always underestimate my little girl and she always manages more than I give her credit. When I did some very gentle night weaning/training to ditch any feed before midnight, I was dreading it and she smashed it in one session 🤣

After following a lovely sleep lady’s course, I changed from feeding on demand to feeding only when she wakes from sleep… so as soon as she wakes up and after naps and 30 min before bedtime. And now once in a night. My baby is on 2 naps now so that’s 4-5 times a day. If you can space him out a little in the lead up, that’ll help. I was previously mistaking sleepy cues for hunger cues. He’ll be eating 3 meals a day too and snacking probably, so that’ll be a game changer.

So hard when you are the dummy too. Did you try the bib anatomical dummies? We tried mam and then to bib.

You’ve got this Mumma. He will be fine, as long as he has food and water and he’ll be so distracted in the nursery environment ❤️❤️❤️

It’s also advised to move away from bottles as they head towards a year anyway. Someone mentioned a cup instead which is an option if you don’t think he’ll cope xx

Been at work a month. Found the lansinoh teets to be the best in medium, they also fit on mam bottles. Baby just had little bits to Start with but after about a week she was latching on and having a full bottle. I did start her at home, she wasn’t really bothered but liked playing with it. You might be in a good spot to try at home now if she’s teething and putting very tiny in her mouth