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Is it pumped milk? Make sure it tastes ok. This sounds a lot like my son, and I tried to force the bottle for two months after he stopped taking it before I bothered to taste it. I have high lipase in my milk and it was gross--tastes like soap and metal. Eventually I was able to treat the milk and he would take little bits, but I had pretty much traumatized him and he never really took a bottle. It's unlikely to be your issue, but possible. Definitely worth tasting (make sure to taste not very fresh expressed--should be at least a few hours old to check (however old it is when you offer). If this is your issue, let me know and I can give you more info.

Oh no I am sorry she is still not taking one!

I will add that recently, now that K is a distracted nurser, she is distracted at the bottle to unless she's super hungry. So sometimes we have to go into a dark room and I might even have to play some white noise from my phone so she can focus!

@FaithFertility: ok, just wanted to check first, because I tried all the tricks, but none worked. Ok, so here are some suggestions:
Have him give her a bottle in the bath
Have him try it outside
Have him try it while he is wearing something you've worn/slept with
Alternatively, have his feeds be totally different than you--have her face out, or in a car seat or bouncer. Have him play music, just whatever he can do to make it a different experience than nursing.
I totally remember the frustration, and it was so awful. For everyone. Will she take a bottle from you? Or not at all?

For awhile, once I'd treated the milk, I had people give him syringes of milk. It wasn't ideal, but he would get a little bit that way.

My son has been bottlefed (mostly pumped BM) for the most part since he was a month old and he still went through a bottle rejection phase starting around 12-13 weeks and it lasted until like 5.5 months! I have no idea why, he just did not want to take the bottle. For a while I could try and nurse him a little and do a switcharoo or get him to take some ounces during his dreamfeed, but he ditched that late feed around 4.5 months and refused to be tricked by the boob to bottle switcharoo. Pediatrician said they start learning to express their ability to refuse at that age, they start to get really distracted, AND their growth velocity slows all at the same time so even breastfed babies can stop nursing as well, although the boob has the benefit of being comforting. We had one or two days when he hardly took anything and I was losing my mind about dehydration, but it really did pass. We were miserable for so long because it took like an hour for every feeding but he suddenly just started drinking like a champ one day.

Here's what worked:

- We kept a stash of toys next to our feeding chair so we could dangle a toy over his face to bat at while using the other hand to slip the bottle in his mouth to drink while distracted.

- Look into his eyes and sing a song really animatedly to distract him.

- Sped up his nipple flow. At one point we used TWO nipples in each feeding - the slower one at the beginning when he was actively sucking and then the faster one towards the end just to get as much to dribble into his mouth as we could.

- Start the feeding in one place and then move to another place in the house midway through, again to distract.

SAHMs I know who EBF on demand have told me the Adiri Natural Nurser has worked for them, if you think it might be the bottle itself.