my 4 month old is on a bottle strike and I totally blame myself! We started her on a bottle around a week old, she started taking a pacifier at 3 days. The bottle was never an issue. Then we became lazy. My husband stopped doing a night feeding because she was only getting up once and it was just easier for me to do it and I got super lazy about pumping. Around 8 weeks she was getting a bottle every other day, then much less frequently.
Now she screams when we try to give it to her (I've tried, my husband, my mom and dad). We've tried a few different bottles. There are some that she will chew on but not suck and then will scream.
Luckily I'm not going back to work until she is 6 months, but I would like to feel like I can go out and not have to time it around her feedings.
Any thoughts? Anything that has worked? I have a few friends who hired nurses to come over and get their kid on a bottle. I'm not opposed to that but I want to exhaust all possibilities.
She also was much happier to take it sitting in a car seat or a bouncy seat, or sitting on a lap facing outwards or lying down/propped up. She initially would only take it from my husband (after being cool with taking it from everyone when she was a newborn) and had to build up to taking it from the sitter, etc. Singing or reading to her or otherwise distracting her while offering it helped. If she started to fuss, we put it down, gave her a little while, and tried again within the hour. And again. And again. We stuck with the same bottles and nipples, and are now back in a pretty good swing. Sometimes it takes repeated tries, but she generally comes around now and finishes it off. 
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