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Baby not taking bottle
Well, I've been trying Katie with practice bottles of pumped milk every
so often. I gave her the first one a week and a half ago, when she was five weeks old, and, although she wasn't too happy, she took it. I gave her the second one a week ago, and she took that but was quite upset about it, not helped by the fact that there were various things going on - doorbell ringing in the middle of me feeding her, etc. - and the feed kept getting interrupted and she was getting quite worked up, which I'm worried may have given her an aversion to the whole business. Anyway, I tried a third bottle yesterday, and she flat-out refused it. Tried again today, and same thing. Now, I know it's too early to get too worried about this, and there are still loads of things I can try to persuade her to take it (I've been Googling), but it's stressing me out like crazy, because if she doesn't take a bottle easily then it's going to create huge problems. I have to go back to work when she's three months old. I know there are alternative ways of getting milk into her, but it's going to be a horrendous pain for my husband if he has to cup-feed or syringe-feed her everything, especially with a three-year-old running around knocking cups over. Or if she's screaming her head off all day because she just doesn't want to take a bottle when I'm gone. I've been reading Tracy Hogg, who had some useful suggestions but also said that if you get a baby to take a bottle after refusing it then you shouldn't breastfeed them for the next 48 hours in case they refuse bottles again after going back to the breast. Can't see myself pumping for that long! Anyway - so I'm pretty worked up about all this and imagining all sorts of worst-case scenarios. So if anyone has any tales of babies who refused bottles for a while but eventually learned to transfer from breast to bottle without problems, then I'd love the encouragement! All the best, Sarah -- http://www.goodenoughmummy.typepad.com "That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be" - P. C. Hodgell |
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