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Baby Won't Take Bottle
Asked by A.J. from Boston
on April 3, 2011
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I am going back to work tomorrow, and my 8 week old will not take the bottle. My husband introduced it to her when she was 3 weeks old, she took it great (we use pump...
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- This happened to me as well when my daughter was 8 weeks old. My husband and mother did a lot of coaxing and bouncing her on the exercise ball and she would eventuall...
- Try a variety of nipples. I babysit my 3.5 month old grandson and he is very particular about the kind of nipples he likes. She will take the bottle. Are you still ...
- I thought my DD wouldn't take a bottle since she started to refuse just before I went back to work. The LC said that many babies have a stage where they stop just acce...
Baby Refuses Bottles
Asked by T.Y. from Sarasota
on June 16, 2011
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OK. So my baby girl is now almost 7 months old and just refuses to take a bottle. I breastfeed but cannot go anywhere for long periods of time because she won't drink ...
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- I had the same thing with my 5 mo old. I had my neighbor keep her all day (11 hours) and she refused the bottle with her the whole day. When she brought her back, she ...
- one of the ways to get around this is to.....NOT keep offering different methods. Find one that you want to use AND stick with it! Don't give in, don't break out the...
- My daughter stopped taking a bottle at 6 months. It freaked all of us out at first but we kept trying with the sippy cup and eventually she started using it with no pr...
Help with Introducing a Bottle Kinda Late in the Game...
Asked by R.W. from Los Angeles
on January 24, 2008
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I need some help with introducing a bottle at 4 months. It turns out that I will have to go back to work and my little one will have to take a bottle at the daycare. S...
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- I don't know if you have already tried this, but I have read that if someone else (dad, grandma, etc.) offers the bottle, the baby may take it more willingly because s...
- Try the "Mam" baby bottles... they are really great AND they do NOT contain the harmful plastics that can leech into our baby's body, and are "BPA" free. You can find ...
- You might try using a sippy cup instead of the bottle. That worked for my little one.
Bottle & Solids Strike
Asked by B.L. from San Francisco
on October 2, 2008
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My 8 month old busy boy stopped taking his bedtime 8pm bottle from his Dad on our trip to see the grandparents this month. It's the only bottle of formula he receives ...
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- i am still nursing my 13 month old and he would get down to just that one 3am feeding and then regress back to 3 a night, usually after traveling. i would always be a...
- B., Your son does not need a night time bottle if you are nursing him. Have you tried solids you are eating?? He does not need teeth for adult solids. His jaw streng...
- This sounds like a situation that will just take time and patience. The trip upset his routine, and he may never go back to exactly what the routine was before. (That...
One Breast Only....
Asked by J.R. from Kansas City
on March 27, 2008
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My newborn girl (3-18-08) will only nurse off of my right breast. She started off fine with both in the hospital but absolutely REFUSES to nurse off the left breast at...
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- My son did the same thing and later that day I started feeling sick, go the cold chills and come to find out I had mastitis in my breast. Its like he knew before it h...
- I had a very large tumor removed from one of my breast (which impeaded the flow of milk for my first child) so I feed off of one for 6 mo. with him. Then I had it rem...
- I never had this kind of problem, but I would talk with your OBGYN just in cause some thing may be going on that you little baby can detect from the tast diff from you...
Breastfed Baby Won't Take a Bottle!
Asked by C.S. from Lewiston
on July 8, 2008
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My 12 week old daughter will not accept a bottle. She's a voracious breastfeeder and is quite big for her age. She took bottles (of breast milk) three times from other...
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- At 4 weeks, I introduced the bottle and my little one took it well. At 8 weeks, she started to refuse her daily bottle. It was then that I knew there was going to be ...
- Hi C., I had a similar problem with daughter , however I had plenty of time to play with I found a great online,catalog store that specialize in baby stuff,(a little...
- Did YOU try and give her a bottle? It was what worked with my little one. Also, check out the bottles most like breastfeeding - MAM's bottles are great!
Baby Refusing Bottle
Asked by A.W. from Washington DC
on December 23, 2008
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Help! My 11-week-old has started refusing the bottle, and I am going back to work in a week. He took bottles from my husband just fine until last week, when he start...
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- My thought is to lay off for a few days, or maybe even the whole next week, relax as a family and then try again. I honestly think that if you are out of the house fo...
- The only thing I can think of is to re-examine your diet... With the holidays and all are you eating/drinking anything new that might be turning him off? Good Luck!
- did you try faster flow nipples?
My Daughter Won't Wean to a Bottle of Formula!
Asked by K.H. from Denver
on February 3, 2008
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Hi all! My daughter just turned one. About a month ago I began weaning her from breastfeeding (I need to be done!!) and she took right to a bottle or sippy cup with ...
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- you might try putting strawberry of chocolate powder in her milk. she'll probably get back to drinking milk pretty quickly, but if you're worried about fluid intake, ...
- Your daughter is very intelligent! At one, they don't need formula--you've done an excellent job breastfeeding her for the first year. Concentrate on giving her lots...
- Hi K., I feel your worry. When my (now one year and a couple weeks) daughter was 10 mos. old, she wouldn't take any formula either. She had been drinking at least 4 ...
Breastfed Baby Won't Take Bottle
Asked by R.S. from Albany
on August 26, 2010
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I breastfeed my 16 week old and he refuses to take a bottle. I've tried both pumped breastmilk and formula. The pediatrician recommended having someone besides me tr...
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- I think part of the problem is that when the baby is very hungry, ie first feeding of the morning, he is less likely to accept something new like a bottle. He is cryin...
- Oh I feel your pain and frustration. This is exactly what happened with us too. For 7 months!!! Fortunately, I make my own schedule at work and at the time, my husb...
- I feel your pain! My husband and I tried to have romantic weekend when our first child was 5 months old, and we had to cut it short and come home because our son woul...
Baby Wont Take to a Bottle
Asked by M.W. from Boston
on October 7, 2010
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okay, my baby girl leah is 10 weeks old she is breastfed i have been trying to get her to take to the bottle so i can go back to work and so her nana and all could tak...
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- Make someone else feed them to her. Most babies don't want mom to feed them a bottle because they know that mom has the food. Leave for a period of time (one in which ...
- I agree have someone else try to feed her, dont even be in the room, becuase if she smells/hears/senses you she still may not take the bottle from confusion....the bre...
- I had the same problem w/ my DD where she refused the bottle. Like you, I went out & bought every bottle imaginable. I had to go back to work when she turned 12 weeks...
