Reverting to bottle refusal

[ladygrey]

DD (4 months) used to take a bottle just fine (after a rocky start at 6 weeks when I first began pumping), but over the past week she has suddenly decided that bottles are evil. No joke, she starts screaming bloody murder as soon as she even sees the bottle. We try daily with a number of different tactics including:

walking
standing
sitting
rocking
jiggling
DH trying the bottle without me in the house
Me nursing first then trying the bottle
Having one of the grandparents try a bottle while babysitting
warming the milk up
keeping the milk cold
trying different times of the day
letting DD hold the bottle and play with it
putting her in the bouncer
using TV or music as a distraction

ETA: we've also tried a few different brands of bottles

Nothing has worked so far. The most frustrating thing about this is that we know that she can take a bottle, but she is choosing not to. Any ideas? I am tired of wasting pumped milk and fear that my freezer stash will be useless if she keeps this up. Is it common for babies to accept a bottle at first but then revert to refusing?

[brady2012]

Have you tried changing to a faster flow nipple? I didn't have major issues with either kid they both took the born frees after being coaxed at 4 weeks but I did find my daughter got frustrated around 5 months and her DC provider suggested moving to stage 2 nipples, that helped her issue.

[carolinagirl831]

maybe try heating the milk really warm

[ryry]

Here are some things that helped DD1:
-heating the milk to really warm
-MAM bottles
-drinking the bottle facing away from the person feeding her (she'd sit on DH's lap facing away from him and he'd feed her that way)


Are you feeding her freshly pumped milk? I had excess lipase and my milk would 'turn' within an hour after pumping. She didn't like the 'turned' milk, but was better about very fresh milk.

[loskadoodle]

We went through this. It was really frustrating (sad?) for DH because he was always the one who gave the bottles. We just kept at it. He eventually took it again, but i think it was like 2 weeks.