Odd behavior?

Just wondering if this is normal...
DD2 is now just over 3 months. She's still nursing just fine, starting to
sleep a lot longer at night and stays for longer stretches during the day
between feedings.
She's nursed almost always, but every so often I will offer a bottle of EBM.
At the beginning she took it just fine. That started to slowly stop,
though. The last little while (like the last 2 days or so) she's basically
been refusing the bottle completely. The EBM is thawed out from in the
freezer that I've pumped and stored and she's never complained before.
Any idea on why she might all of a sudden change her mind? I don't mind
nursing, although there are a few odd times when I am not around her, and if
I do go out, I feed her up real good first then leave a bottle with DH just
in case. He had to call me earlier in the morning - about an hour and a
half after I left the house to run some errands... I asked him if I forgot
anything and all he said was, "Yes, you forgot to feed a starving baby!" and
he knew I had fed her first, left her sleeping in her bed and went out, yet
she would not take a bottle of EBM from him. Since he had thawed and warmed
a frozen stash, I tried to give it to her when I got home but no go with
that. She would have no part of it...

Any ideas? Just let it go or should I offer her a bottle every now and then
as I always have tried? (maybe a total of 8oz in 1 week is all she normally
consumes of EBM - usually 2ish oz per day, every second day or so)

In article fbVwh.26650$Fd.12117@edtnps90, "xkatx" wrote:

She's nursed almost always, but every so often I will offer a bottle of EBM.
At the beginning she took it just fine. That started to slowly stop,
though. The last little while (like the last 2 days or so) she's basically
been refusing the bottle completely.

I am not an expert, but at 3mo I think babies start to socialise more. She
might want YOU, not just food. Your smell, your arms, your heartbeat etc --
the whole package. I am sure that if it was purely hunger she would have had
the EBM.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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"Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may
start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled."
Kerry Cue

"xkatx" wrote in message
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Just wondering if this is normal...
DD2 is now just over 3 months. She's still nursing just fine, starting to
sleep a lot longer at night and stays for longer stretches during the day
between feedings.
She's nursed almost always, but every so often I will offer a bottle of
EBM.

It isn't all that uncommon for babies to up and refuse bottles at around 3-4
months if they haven't received them real regularly before that. My oldest
did and no amount of hunger would get him to take a bottle after 3-4 mos
even though he had one about 3 times a week without issue between 6-12wks.

I never made that mistake again and all my other kids got a bottle at least
5 days a week from 4wks on. I work outside the home so it is important to
me that they accept bottles.


--
Nikki, mama to
Hunter 4/99
Luke 4/01
Brock 4/06
Ben 4/06

"Chookie" wrote in message
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In article fbVwh.26650$Fd.12117@edtnps90, "xkatx"
wrote:

She's nursed almost always, but every so often I will offer a bottle of
EBM.
At the beginning she took it just fine. That started to slowly stop,
though. The last little while (like the last 2 days or so) she's
basically
been refusing the bottle completely.

I am not an expert, but at 3mo I think babies start to socialise more.
She
might want YOU, not just food. Your smell, your arms, your heartbeat
etc --
the whole package. I am sure that if it was purely hunger she would have
had
the EBM.

That could be it... She tends to settle down a lot easier for me than she
does with Dad. He can lay beside her in bed for half an hour and she's
still wide awake, talking, kicking... Anything but sleeping... I lay down
with her and 5 minutes later she's out like a light. (Here's to hoping I'm
not boring or something!)
I'm a fairly strong believer that if you're hungry, you'll eat. One way or
another, you will eat if you're hungry enough. Between a boob and a bottle,
it kind of makes me think that if *I'm* hungry enough, I'll figure out how
to eat rice with chopsticks (I'm the one that requests a fork while out at
an authentic Malay or Chinese restaurant or I just don't get to eat!)
If a baby is truly hungry, they can figure out how to work a bottle nipple,
and at that point, it just might be a matter of preference (for the most
part, anyways, and, of course, there's ALWAYS the exceptions to the
ules!) - This is just generally speaking, and completely my opinion and
experience.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You
may
start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled."
Kerry Cue