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Top tips for the bottle introduction

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missbluebird · 29/07/2014 21:16

My 20 week old DS is EBF. We have trialled various bottles / cups and he dislikes them all. We have picked a bottle that he allows in his month and briefly sucked at to go with! So what now?! I have given him a bit before a breastfeed this afternoon he took a couple of ml (allowed it to drip into his mouth really) before losing interest.

Should I go all out and offer it to him before every feed, during the feed? At a totally different time? We were wondering about trying it as a dream feed? Or should I stick with once a day? Any success stories would be good to hear about...I am 5 weeks from returning to work...Hmm

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fuzzywigsmum · 30/07/2014 19:17

I left DD2 who was a bottle refuser with DP for an afternoon and she changed her tune! Since then she's taken a bottle no probs from DP and a babysitter although haven't tried to give her one myself again as it's just an occasional thing for now.

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missbluebird · 30/07/2014 20:06

For some reason he takes the bottle better from me than DH and MIL. He had some during his dream feed last night. Will try again tonight and then see about trying again with DH whilst out.

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