Baby won’t take the bottle

I gave up and accepted she'd just be breastfed directly. It's not been a huge hassle for me. I'll offer again just before she starts daycare at 6 months, and if that fails I'll give her a sippy cup at daycare in addition to a lunchtime visit and BF. Is there any reason you need her to take the bottle?

T_Rex wrote: I gave up and accepted she'd just be breastfed directly. It's not been a huge hassle for me. I'll offer again just before she starts daycare at 6 months, and if that fails I'll give her a sippy cup at daycare in addition to a lunchtime visit and BF. Is there any reason you need her to take the bottle?

Same here. TBH I actually found it easier after mix feeding #1 and faffing round with bottles, cleanign etc. Just one less thing to wean off.

And there is new legislation in place the mothers can be given breaks to feed at work or express, so if poss, feed baby at work, or head to D/C at lunch time. A PITA, but sometimes thats what has to happen.

I needed to get my baby on a bottle so she could have EBM when I had surgery but no avail, i ended up having to have her in hospital with me. now THAT was a PITA!

Sorry - my little'un isn't big on the bottle either. He'll take it sometimes - if he's really hungry or I guess just in a really accomodating mood. But I find as soon as I take him off to burp him it's a miracle if he'll take it again.

The only time I've not wanted to bf (due to me drinking, before realising he wouldn't take a bottle that day!) I've fed him milk from a syringe (slow) or from a medicine spoon (possibly messy as you have to go slowly). Now I'm trying with a sippy cup. He can get the milk out, but then it seems to dribble out of mouth
I think the sippy cup is going to be the way to go though. And you're one is still a little little for it

We had this problem with henry when he was 5months old. I wanted him to take a bottle for my wedding day. Anyway i had resigned myself to feeding him during the day at different times (was going to be difficult in a wedding dress but oh well) until i came on here and asked this same question. Someone recommended trying a sippy cup. We got a soft spout one (tomme tippie) i think and he drank it no problems.
Might be worth a try if you are desperate. Henry had only had a bottle at 2weeks however so its not like he was taking it and then stopped.

Sazzy wrote: Hi there Well it sounds like this is happening to a few of us! She still isn't taking the bottle. I have heard from a friend after trying every single bottle the only one her baby took was the NUK brand and a latex teat (yellow) not the clear silocone teat that so many bottles have. So we tried it and she drank 30ml, it was a miracle. Obviously not nearly enough, and then she started screaming, but it's a start. But then the next day she didn't take it again. I will keep trying. She has to take it!!

This is the only thing that worked for my baby. Nuk bottle, latex teat, lying flat on the floor.    

I did resign myself to just breastfeeding for a few months as he flat out refused (before giving him the Nuk bottle) but my milk supply was drastically low and he was starving so I tried absolutely everything and this is the only thing that worked.

This happend to me and i tried everything but unfortunatly my wee girl would just not take a bottle , she flatly refused , would purse her lips, spit it , anything but take it . She took her first full bottle at 8months old by a complete fluke , i just thought i would try one day and she took it , it wasnt an instant thing tho , she still refused most of the time but i just kept insisting she have it , now she is 11months old (well just about) and she will take a bottle some of the time but she still definatly prefers boobie , after having her sick the whole weekend she has not had one bottle . i think for my wee one it is a comfort thing . She is now at preschool 2 1/2 days a week ( as i have to work ) so she is made to take it there . i definatly feel your pain !!!!!

Guess what! My little girl is on the bottle.
I just decided I had to take a stand and be firm and not give in. So last Monday she woke, I gave her the bottle, she cried as usual, and normally after half an hour or so I would put her on the boob but this time I didn't. She cried herself to sleep hungry, woke up at 11am crying, I tried again, she still wouldn't take it. Had a day of tears from her and me.   At 4pm she was obviously hungry and she just took it, she drunk the whole 250ml bottle in about 15 minutes. Before bed I gave her another one, again more protesting but for only about 20 minutes this time, then she took it. The next day the crying got less and less, and on Wednesday morning she took it straight away, no crying, just drinking it, happy and smiling and thinking it was great. All it took was persistence and determination not to give up. And it worked. YAY. Also NUK latex yellow teats is what I've been using. Good luck to the rest of you!!!