taking a bottle
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Topic: taking a bottle
Posted By: Mum2ET
Subject: taking a bottle
Date Posted: 30 August 2007 at 12:07pm
| Hi I am trying to get my 10 week old baby to take a bottle of EBM and she doesn't want to take it- every time we offer it to her she starts crying or making a face. Have tried putting the teat in milk first,but that doesn't seem to make a difference. Does anyone have any suggestions for getting her to take a bottle? I have to go back to work part-time shortly, so she she needs to be feed by someone else other than me. |
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Posted By: hailstones
Date Posted: 30 August 2007 at 12:20pm
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Have you tried getting someone else to feed her. Elle wouldn't take the bottle from me to start off with, I think it was a case of why have the bottle when you can have the real thing. And they can smell you (the milk on you).
After a few feeds from her Dad with the bottle she was fine with it. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Mum2ET
Date Posted: 30 August 2007 at 1:21pm
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thanks
we have tried getting my husband to feed her, but she still won't take it. |
Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 30 August 2007 at 1:27pm
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Try some different types of bottles/teats. There are heaps of different kinds, and she will probably prefer one shape over the others. Does she have a dummy? If she does try and find a teat that is the same as her dummy. ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 30 August 2007 at 1:59pm
| Isla would only take a bottle if I was no where near, I had to go out into the garage or leave the house! Lol! |
Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 30 August 2007 at 2:49pm
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One of the wider teats that is closer to the shape of the breast/nipple might make a difference -- Emma Rose never liked the "traditional" narrow ones, but once we got her some of the wide ones, she was fine. It took several tries before she'd go for it, though. I found that when she wasn't terribly hungry was a good time to start, as she wasn't so desperate for the breast that she simply got upset and frustrated. Sucking from a teat is very different from sucking from a breast, and it sometimes take them a bit of time to get used to it. We had to get the super slow flow teats for Em, as the faster flow ones made her choke and sputter. Just some ideas! :) |
Posted By: Mum2ET
Date Posted: 30 August 2007 at 3:56pm
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Thanks for the advice.
I am using the avent bottles/teats at the moment, so I might try another brand and she what she does. She doesn't take a dummy either (we tried givng her one when she was first born but she didn't want it, so we didn't push it). |
Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 31 August 2007 at 3:33pm
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I've heard of babies who take the Tommee Tippee closer to nature teats, but are fussy about all the other ones... maybe worth a shot? ------------- Andie |
Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 31 August 2007 at 7:58pm
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Date Posted: 31 August 2007 at 8:03pm
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Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 31 August 2007 at 8:21pm
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Brenna used to be a nightmare with the bottle (I went back to work 1 day a week at 3 months) and I changed to the Tommee Tippee closer to nature and it's been pretty good since -------------  My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted By: Phat_Cat
Date Posted: 01 September 2007 at 10:35pm
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we too have been struggling with tristen trying to take a bottle & the closest we have got was when our friend looked after him for a few hours & he took the tommee tippee closer to nature one - like 3 x 100ml ones over 4 hrs LOL. Both DH & I try to give him one but he does prefer the real Mc Coy. We are trying every now & then to encourage him to take one as it would be nice for me to have sometime out & not feel like i have a leech permantly attached :) and i will also be returning to work at some stage..... ------------- Tristen - 24/06/07 Rylan - 11/12/08 Angel Babies -14/08/05 & 21/01/2010 Curtis - 26/02/12 |
Posted By: Mum2ET
Date Posted: 02 September 2007 at 8:24am
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got the tommy tippee teats yesterday so going to try today and give her the bottle and see what she does. Mum looked after her yesterday for me for a couple of hours and she tried giving her the bottle, but she refused it...she doesn't know that she has to suck on it, the milk just goes all over for her face (and her clothes)lol
Plunket suggested that if she doesn't feed for an afternoon, then that's fine...but she is such a hungry little thing that I know that she would just cry and cry if she couldn't get any milk and I don't want that. Also she needs a couple of afternoon feeds so that she will get a decent nights sleep (and give me a decent sleep as well  )
I know a couple of other mum's whose babies have never taken a bottle... |