Bottle Strike!

[Gee72]

Our 7 month DS has gone on bottle strike. He's mostly bf, apart from his 11pm feed which is formula from a bottle. Occasionally though he has a daytime bottle too if my DW needs to have a break.

He's still fine with the late feed from a bottle (I guess as he's so sleepy), but any daytime ones are noisily rejected, despite him knowing that it's milk and that he needs a drink. He pulls the bottle towards him but as soon as the teat gets to his mouth he turns away.

He's eating 3 meals a day very well, and has a Tommee Tippee cup for water, which he hasn't quite got the hang of yet.

Has he just become clever enough to express a preference for breast feeding, or do we just need to persevere with the cup?

[Chloe55]

I would persevere with the cup - try a few different ones as it took my ds a little while to find one he likes, ds also went through a period where he would only drink from an 'adult' cup (me holding it of course) - he didn't actually start using a cup properly until he went to nursery at 9mths!

He probably just prefers the breastmilk though - could your dw maybe express this bottle and then try him to see if it is the milk or bottle?

[amidaiwish]

doidy cups are brilliant for bf babies - mine always drank from them way before they could manage a tommee tippee sippee cup
doidy

[Gee72]

Thanks to you both.

With the doidy cups doesn't the milk just get thrown everywhere or am I missing something?

At what age do babies start to really cut down on milk consumption? Could it be that he just wants less milk and more solids already?