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This happened to my friend with her first. After a few days, her daughter learned that in order to eat during the day, she'd need to take it from the bottle. All it took was time. Hang in there! You're doing a great job!

Ya, we went through this with LO 1. A blog post from Mrs. Jacks helped us out a lot!

A switch to MAM bottles worked for us!

@mrswin: Fresh or frozen milk? Have you tasted / smelled it?

Can I ask why you are giving her water?
If you really think that's necessary at this age (it's on the young side), I'd recommend a sippy cup for that. Probably best for her to only associate milk in the bottle. Best of luck though, it's always so upsetting when LO won't eat

@mrswin: I'm sorry you're going through this. My LO took the bottle on day #4. I hope your LO figures it out soon!

@mrswin: It's worth a shot, we were so many weeks in that we decided to give ANYTHING a try. We ended up sticking with formula and I tried to still nurse, but she seemed to be getting confused so we decided to just do FF because I didn't want to mess anything up (we were 6 weeks in & failure to gain weight though so you have time to try and mix to get her to drink milk!)

Do you think spoon feeding her milk would work? When I was a baby I just wouldn't take a bottle and my dad had to do that starting at three months while my mom went to college. They said it took forever but nothing else worked. Now my little girl is also refusing bottles and I might be in the same boat when it's time to go back to work.

@mrswin: we bought the nurser drop ins. I also bought the brown nipples off amazon. They are discontinued but she seems to like those ones the best

My daughter is 18 months now and I went back to work part time when she was 5 months. Just like your LO she started refusing the bottle at that time, and never went back to accepting the bottle. She would go all day without drinking. I feel like I tried everything and what eventually worked was her using a sippy cup with a straw, adding a lot of breast milk to cereal, mashed avocado, and cooked egg yolk, when she turned 6 months old. I also continued to feed her at night until she was 13 months old. It was a rough road, and I hope it is smoother for you. Good Luck!