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I'm sorry. We are on like week 3-4 of trying and it's tough. We went with MAM for daycare and he's done ok but they would like us to try the NuK bottle next week.

First baby- a couple of tries. Second baby- 10.5 months old and has never taken one. I think that's pretty unusual though, and you can try cup feeding, using a spoon, a dropper, even on a super young baby, to get her used to taking milk from a source other than you. Good luck!

@butterbean: Hugs. I spent my maternity leave stressing about LO taking a bottle. I feel like I tried everything. $100 in different bottles and wasted about 100oz of milk. I brought in family to feed so it wasn't me. It finally took three 9 hour daycare days to convince her to eat. My doctor and daycare assured me it was the right thing to do. If LO2 has the same issue I'm just going to let it sort itself out at daycare.

@butterbean: he's on week 2 of the MAM and not latching as well as they would like. Aka he's barely taking 1/2 an ounce at times.

@butterbean my lo was the same way. The day before I went back to work it took my DH 45 mins to give her 3 ounces (I went back part time at 10 weeks). Over the previous 6 weeks we tried everything different bottles, me going upstairs, me leaving the house entirely NOTHING worked. I was so worried then someone told me to try not to stress that she wouldn't starve herself. So the next day came and she did good not great but she took the bottle but the end of the week it was not a problem at daycare at all. I was shocked. My DH tried again on Saturday same issue as before. I guess she knew at daycare there was no chance of me coming to the rescue at home eventually I would come home or downstairs.

By 4 months my DH was able to give her a bottle and at 6 months I tried. I had already pumped and she hadn't had her last bottle for the day yet when I pick from daycare. She was hungry and DH wouldn't be home for 30 mins. She took it no problem didnt even blink and eye at it. I was so happy I almost cried. I thought this day would never come.

So just tried to relax she won't starve herself. I would also recommend not giving her to boob if the bottle isn't working as long as she gets something. I would just wait to the next feeding even if it was only an hour because she hadn't had much of the bottle. Good luck

My DS had a hard time with it, but like @marionberry said, when my SIL gave him one when we were out (around 8 weeks) he took it without fussing. She said that she walked around while feeding him so maybe DH could try doing that? He never took a bottle well from DH until I went back to work (12 weeks) and all of a sudden its like he knew the boob was not an option, started taking bottles with no problem from that day forward.