BF to Bottle - 5 month old baby

Really struggling with this one. Trying to slowly move away from breast feeding to formula bottle feed. For the last two weeks been doing one or two Bottle feeds to replace breast however he is absolutely refusing. Crying and just biting the bottle rather than actually having any milk. Anyone have any experience in this and can provide some words of wisdom to help!? X

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Could it potentially be the bottle you’re using? My little one was initially EBF until we moved to formula bottles. We tried MAM bottles first but that did not work for us. We then tried the Philips Avent bottles and she took to them really well! I’ve heard the Lansinoh bottles are super good too and pass the triangle test.

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Ah will defo try different bottles, we were using tomee tipee and he didnt like it so we had some MAM bottles and he does take from it but not everytime so could potentially be the bottle!

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We’re starting to gradually move from BF to mixed/formula feeding my 7 month old and we’re using lansinoh bottles. So far so good

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Could also be the teet flow? If you've got a faster let down

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Could also be the teet flow? If you've got a faster let down

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