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popcorn 
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 Posted: 07 March 2008 at 2:13pm |
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We have decided to give formula a go for many different reasons,
Loobee and others, how did you go about teaching your babies to go from breast to bottle?
We tried giving him a bottle yesterday and he just screamed which is most unlike him, so I gave in and breast fed.
He is more interested today but has gone back to chewing on the teat, he will take some and pulls the bottle towards him but only a few mouthfuls at a time
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Loobee
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Posted: 07 March 2008 at 3:03pm |
Hi SimoneF,
I had tried T on bottles at about three months to give EBM but he never took (have a large collection of unused bottles/teats to prove it)  Plunket advised ignoring the bottle and going straight to a cup which worked but it took DH to get him used to it as T just knew I was fobbing him off! I use Avent cups and spouts for three months up which involve a bit of sucking but not too much and aren't pretending to be your nipple! I dropped the day feeds first, then followed with first feed of the day and finaly the evening feed over a period of 10 days. I always stayed out of sound and sight when DH was feeding the first few times which seemed to help and then started taking over halfway. It may have been easier for me as I am pregnant again so T was going off the taste anyway - probably an extreme method though.  . It may be stressful to start with but I assume your are feeding solids as wel so bubs won't starve if he doesn't take much to start with.
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Posted: 07 March 2008 at 7:07pm |
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Mum2ET
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Posted: 07 March 2008 at 8:00pm |
I had problems getting Ella to have a bottle when she 3 months old. Basically after 3 weeks of trying I gave up and then a couple of weeks later introduced a sipper cup to her...which she took without any problems (she liked the fact that she could hold the handles and control it herself). then we tried introducing the bottle to her again at 6 months and she took it staight away.......basically i have never given Ella a bottle myself and have only ever got her caregiver and DH to feed her from a bottle (if I am in the room she won't take it as she prefers to breastfeed). At the first attempt I tried everything to get her to drink from it and she just wasn't ready.....
sorry, don't know how much help that was......but I do know how frustrating it can be
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popcorn
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Posted: 07 March 2008 at 8:40pm |
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hi everyone
thanks for all your help and advise, might try the milk in a cup, he drinks from his nuby cup quite well but is a bit stop starty like he is with the bottle. I am wondering if I would be better off introducing the bottle with breast milk in it rather than trying to get him used to the formula and the bottle together? its such a guessing game!
Milo1 i cant believe Luke is almost 1 that has gone so quickly! Do you get to have a party and a cake?
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Posted: 07 March 2008 at 9:22pm |
I had nightmares trying to get Miss Stubborn Maya to take a bottle, we started trying at 9 weeks and by the time she started daycare at 5 mths she still refused it so I had no choice but to breastfeed her in between classes, in my experience it didn't matter whether the bottle was EBM or formula, she wouldn't take either.
Sorry, I'm not much help am I 
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Posted: 07 March 2008 at 9:46pm |
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My cousin had to stop breastfeeding her little girl cause she was going back to work and she wouldn't take the bottle so as she really loved dried apricots they stuck one around the teat and she sucked on that and that's how they got her to take a bottle!
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Posted: 08 March 2008 at 8:26pm |
wow, that was a clever idea Kim!
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