My nearly 5mth old baby will not take a bottle. I am absolutely fed up with breastfeeding so much that it is affecting my mental state as I feel trapped and there is no out to breastfeeding. I have tried every bottle and teat on the market guaranteed for fussy babies with no success. I've had other people try give it to her with no luck. She takes a dummy but just won't latch onto a bottle. Any advice or tips please!! Very desperate going out of my mind.
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Syringe it in for now! And also find a speech pathologist who works with babies feeding.
My 4 month old won't even take a dummy! Willing to suck on his hand but I put a dummy in his mouth and he pulls a face like I'm trying to poison him! I love breastfeeding him but nothing calms him down apart from breast and I can't express and feed him so I can't go anywhere. It's hard.
Have you tried the NUK bottles?
i found they worked
My second was like that. We ended up starting on a sippy cup for her milk. Took a few to find one she liked, and the best were ones with a straw. I went back to work two days a week when she was six months old so she had no choice at that point. She certainly didn't take as much milk during the day as she usually would, but she didn't starve. Perhaps trying a set feed from a cup each day and expand from there?
Best of luck.
They are only babies for such a short time. It is the hardest job in the world but also the best!! Your baby needs you. Perhaps you could just try and enjoy it for now and just keep reminding yourself she won't be this small forever. Don't be to hard on yourself just put your feet up and ENJOY!! X
Her baby needs a happy mumma, and if breast feeding is making her that unhappy, she is not doing the best by her baby!
I breast fed 3 out of 4 of mine, the first one I hated every single minute, I used to sob when he woke up and think shit its awake again, I never held him unless I was feeding him and I had to hold him, put him on the bottle and our bond was fantastic
Telling her to just 'enjoy it' is like telling a depressed to just 'be happy'! Everyone is different and had very different levels of what they can deal with
To the mumma that posted, I do feel your pain, my 2nd and 4th hated bottles, the only way we ever got the odd bottle in was to get hubby to rock them to sleep then feed them that way when they were really hungry
My son was like this, we worked out that I had to be out of the house so he couldn't even smell me, if he got an inkling those boobs were around it was game over! Then once he took it & worked it all out i couldn't hold him for the feeds to start with, popped in in a bouncer and sat beside him. Just drop a BF a day and substitute that and so on. After about a month we were a happily bottle fed family. Good luck!