She is not taking the bottle if we just try one feeding a day. I go back to work next week so we need to step it up a notch but I'm already so stressed that she will starve herself. I'm gonna pump when my mom gives a bottle so I can't even cave and give her the boob!
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We just kept trying. He went on a bottle strike and my mom literally could not get milk in the boy from when I left at 6 am to when I got home at 6 pm. It was absurd. I knew I would be home to feed him that night, so we just had her keep pushing the bottle, but acknowledge that it wasn't working. As long as he was having wet diapers, we would have kept up with that.
Full disclosure, I went the evening of his first day and bought 6 new bottles and all these different nipple flow levels (spent like $100). We then had my mom do bottle trials and see if he would take one better. Ends up he's a bottle snob and wanted a certain kind (should out to Mrs. Jacks who posted the type of bottle on a thread that I was scouring while standing at BRU). We haven't had bottle problems since.
I would recommend leaving the house (or even just going out and waiting in the car) when your mom gives the bottle. She can smell your milk.
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LO1 didn't take a bottle until the day I went back to work. Even then, he refused it from my mom all day! He went about 9 hours without eating at all. When I got home, I nursed him right away. But then at the next feeding that evening, I gave him a bottle and he finally took it. I know it's so, so hard, but just keep at it. She really, truly won't starve herself.
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DS was stubborn I think it was 5 days! He reversed cycled during that time and then magically starting taking the bottle!
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LO didn't eat at all the first three nine hour daycare days and every Monday for about 3 months.
I spent most of my maternity leave trying to get LO to take the bottle. Lots of money and milk wasted. I wish I had just accepted that LO will take the bottle at daycare eventually.
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Never, I ended up visting at lunch and he reverse cycles or clustered in the morning and evening.
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I had this exact same worry in January. My LO refused to take a bottle from anyone. She would cry and push it away. I was very worried she would starve herself and was upset knowing she would go into daycare soon. Everyone told me, even my pediatrician, that babies will not starve themselves; this wasn't very helpful to hear though when you're in the thick of it. Part of the problem, I think for us, is that we waited too long to introduce the bottle and frankly it's just so much easier to breastfeed.
Her daycare has really amazing, patient people. I think that's the key. They tried a few techniques that eventually worked: warmed the bottle, tried the bottle at room temperature (this is what she preferred), walked around with her, squeezed the plastic nipple part, so some milk came out, and found that she preferred the Playtex VentAire bottles.
My approach for the first couple of weeks was to breastfeed her right before drop off and then again immediately when I picked her up. It was the best I could do given the circumstances. She eventually did start drinking from the bottle.
I wish you the best of luck. This is a very hard thing for a mama to go through.
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about two weeks into daycare he started taking more than 2 ounces, at first he took less than an ounce. he wasn't taking any at home!
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Dd rejected bottles from weeks 6 to 16. She drank 2 oz all day my first day back to work when i was gone for 10 hours. She eventually drank from a bottle but it took a week for her to accept it and she was still very particular about it (who was feeding her and how much she would drink) up until we dropped bottles all together at 12 months.
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These stubborn babies lol!
DD is taking s bottle now even from me which I thought was a huge no no. I couldn't let her starve so we didn't go cold turkey bottles all day.
We tried everything under the sun and only changed bottles once. I don't even think she had a preference. She prob was just confused! Even when she takes it from me now she stares at me like what is this?!
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