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I would buy a boon nursh bottle to try. My little also likes nanobebe. I was always told to keep ebf babies on slow flow so they don't develop a bottle preference.

Have you tried having someone else offer a bottle while you're out of the house? Some babies won't take one from Mom and won't take one if they can smell you

Good luck!

@Umbreon: that might help.
Id honestly try a couple different bottles and see if there's one he likes better. The Avent ones aren't very boob like usually

This is exactly what happened to me with my DD1 (so kiddo no. 2) she drank from a bottle just fine and then when it was time for me to go on a business trip, she wasn't having it anymore. Luckily, we had about 2 weeks to practice and I did what you suggested - I tried ALL the bottles I had in the house. She drank the most out of the MAM anti colic bottles so we stuck with these and just practiced and practiced. I didn't really offer her a way out so if she didn't drink from the bottle or per spoon then I wouldn't nurse her for a while and kept offering the bottle (this sounds so harsh in hindsight but I waited maybe an hour or so because I wanted it to be clear that if she didn't drink per bottle that crying wouldn't get her the boob) but it worked and after two or three days she started emptying the bottle. After that I made sure to give her at least on bottle of pumped milk a day so we wouldn't have to go through that again.
She was about 5 or 6 months old at the time.

We have had good luck with MAM bottles with both kids. But also, it’s a few hours on a single night? Just leave him and if he decides to wait til you get back, it’ll be fine.

Did they give you any ready to feed brown rubber nipples in the hospital? Those are the ONLY nipple my picky LO will take. Also none of the common wisdom was true, she would ONLY take a bottle from me in the beginning. She also liked the milk HOT. Once we got the nipple/temp combo down she started taking the bottle from others. I’m sorry you have to deal with this. It’s SO stressful.