Help my baby won't take bottles

[eddy]

And I go back to work in two weeks. What do I do? Help me?

We have given this little stinker a bottle everyday since like week two. In the last week he has decided he wants none of that nonsense. I have tried two different bottles, formula and BM, me giving the bottle, H giving the bottle etc. He screams. We give it when we know he is hungry or not when he is terribly hungry and same result.

Part of me thinks i am just going to do bottle bootcamp this week. Every feeding bottle of BM. He eventually has to get it right.

:-(

H and i thought we were going to go out of town today for 3-4 hours while ILs watched the kid. Scratch that. We are staying in town in case he screams bloody murder again.

The little stinker is kicking and smiling on the floor right now. He knows he won the war today.

[emsumm]

Have you tried having your H do it when you're not there at all?

[eddy]

I was out of the room completely today. I let him go with it for 20 minutes then I couldn't take it. Maybe that was a mistake. I am going to the grocery store as my research has found that some babies like the really squishy nipples not plastic like i have been trying. I think it is the nipple of the bottle that is bothering him.

[iamgrace]

My baby never ever took a bottle. we tried everything.

[Deleted]

You need to be out of the house, he can smell you. I used to sit on the porch with a book. Have DH give the bottle, if he refuses, try again in 5 minutes, if he refuses try another 5 minutes, if he still refuses, wait another 5 and breastfeed.

Our dr suggested this way so they don't think-if I scream I get the boobie. It didn't take more than a few days to get DD to stop refusing the bottle.

[emsumm]

I'm sorry, Eddy, that sounds so frustrating. I really hope a new nipple works.

[eddy]

Aug 12, 2012 12:38:24 GMT -5 rehabaddict said:

You need to be out of the house, he can smell you. I used to sit on the porch with a book. Have DH give the bottle, if he refuses, try again in 5 minutes, if he refuses try another 5 minutes, if he still refuses, wait another 5 and breastfeed.

Our dr suggested this way so they don't think-if I scream I get the boobie. It didn't take more than a few days to get DD to stop refusing the bottle.

how old when you did this? Leo is 10 weeks. I didn't know if he was old enough to know the scream equal nurse thing, but maybe he is to the point that he knows that cause and effect.

I am a weakling.

Maybe ILs will be able to work some magic for us today. I hate to do that to them though.

[Marle]

What temperature is the milk?

[Deleted]

What bottle are you using?

[lazyphoque]

Aug 12, 2012 12:48:11 GMT -5 eddy said:

I am a weakling.

Maybe ILs will be able to work some magic for us today. I hate to do that to them though.

Yeah, we left her with my mom to take care of it. :S Hopefully your inlaws will be able to do the job. I do think it helped that grandma has endless patience for her grand babies and I wasn't around for dd to sniff out.

[Deleted]

This happened to me and I had to go all bottles. It sucked for a day but then it was over. I ended up weaning because I hated pumping.

[crunchypb]

We used playtex bottles, Maybe give them a try?!

[eddy]

Okay I found the rubber nipples to the platex bottles and those were agreeable to him. He took 2oz of bm with the ils and refused formula. Okay fine I will become a pumping machine. My MIL said he was unsettled while I wad gone. :-( :-( :-(

I can't handle thinkinf of my baby missing me when I am at work. This sucks. I never had this issue with Jack.

[hymen]

Isaiah didn't take a bottle. I went back to work when he was 4.5 months old. He didn't eat anything the first day and nursed like crazy all evening when we got home. Slowly he started taking a few ounces more each day at daycare and eventually he just got it. I think he realized that if he wanted to eat when I wasn't around he needed to drink from the bottle. By he second week of daycare he had no problems.

I know it's scary but I wouldn't worry about it (easier said than done). He will NOT starve himself and will, at worse, end up reverse cycling. I have a feeling a few days at daycare with the bottle will help him figure it out really quickly.

[mamasaurus]

I'm sorry you're having this problem. I don't know what I'd do if I wasn't a SAHM because mine randomly goes on bottle strikes. She'll get soooo upset and soooo hungry, and I finally tell H, "Give me the cover! I don't care if we are at the grocery store! She's getting Mama Genuine Draft!"

::hug::