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    Posted: 17 March 2009 at 7:35am
My DD is 3 months old and has been mostly exclusively BF except for a few FF at about 6 - 8 weeks at night. At about 8 weeks she began to refuse the nightime bottle and so in the end I just went back to BF.

I am now wanting to introduce the bottle again and make it that DD has at least 2 bottle feeds a day (either EBM or FF) We have a wedding to go to at the end of the month and I need to make sure she will willingly accept the bottle from her Aunty.

We have started off this morning with DH giving the bottle and I have expressed so as not to disrupt supply as yet.

I am wondering has anyone else introduced the bottle at this age or later and how long did it take for them to accept it? Did you just offer the bottle all day for a few days? Or only once a day?

I am not sure how to tackle it so that she will accept both bottle & breast???

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I'm having the same trouble. Hollie was a colic baby, and Mum would take her once a week over night. Those feeds were EBM

As she started to get better she spent less time at Mums, and was getting a bottle once a fortnight max. Now she has decided she doesn't like them.

We are in the process of building in the whops and I need her to take a bottle, so that on moving day she can stay with a close friend and stick as closely as possible to her usual routine.

We have managed to get her to take a wee bit but not a full bottle yet by playing with teats. I have the expensive nuk/avent/tommee tippee closer to nature teats etc, but I'm finding the old school ones better, they are straighter in shape and harder to play with.

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I only half heartedly tried Jack on a bottle and it didn't work so I can't really offer advise. However the Baby Whisperer was on Good Morning a few weeks ago talking about breast to bottle, here is the link to the fact sheet about that segment. Good luck
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You are doing the right thing by getting DH to start the bottle taking process, she is more likely to take it from anyone other than you because they can't bf.
Are you giving EBM or formula in the bottle? Probably best to give EMB because its what she is used to.
We found it was all about the teats. Babies can be very fussy about what they like. Dom will only have NUK and Issy will only take TommeeTippee closer to nature or Adiri.
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DH gave her formula this morning as I did not have any EBM and she drank 120mls, she did bring a lot of it up later on so i dont know if she took too much or it was the formula disagreeing with her??? I now have some EBM so that will be what she has next bottle.

Another question: Usually when I have EBM there is a thick layer on the top but this time its only thin (approx 180mls total EBM) does that mean there is not much hind milk???
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Originally posted by Saffron Saffron wrote:

...NUK and Issy will only take TommeeTippee closer to nature or Adiri.
Good luck!

I'm having a similar problem. Been trying for awhile to get T to take a bottle. So far he has really only taken very small amounts and only from me or my mum, wont take from DP yet. We are trying just small amounts (about 20-30mls) several times each day before or after a BF, as suggested by Plunket and my MW. (Before seems to work far better)
Teats seem to be the difference at the moment, trying a few that my SIL has given me.
How have you found the Adiri bottle? I wondered if it would be worth buying one to try.
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We were having trouble getting Harry to take a bottle but in the end the thing that made it work was that I gave it to him and not somebody else. It is opposite to what people tell you to do but it worked for us. I just made sure I had good eye contact with him like when breast feeding and he drank the bottle. Now he can take it from other people but that helped us for the start.
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And to make it more complex, some babies will take FF from bottle but not EBM cos they think EBM should only come via boob.

Good luck. It may or may not work - we have some stubborn July babies here & in my IRL coffee group. If you have access to a Plunket Family Centre, you can go in there and get help too.
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