Introducing a bottle

[Faith1972]

hi i am a first time mum with a 9 week old beautiful boy. he has been exclusively breastfed and i am trying to get him to take a bottle of expressed milk so my partner can feed whilst i go swimming etc. baby sidney has a 25% tongue tie which will be snipped next week.when i give him the bottle he just vigorously pushes the teat to one side, hungry or not, morning or night, calm or upset.tried tommee tippee and avent silicone teats so far. about to try others but am unsure if tongue tie will make the difference. anyone had similar problem?any advice greatly appreciated.

[Theyaremysunshine]

Worth trying when he's hungry but not too hungry and you mustn't be anywhere near, or he'll smell you and want bf. Ideally someone who has bottle fed before should give the bottle so they are confident.

Latex teats supposed to be v good.

Having said that, I've had 2 ebf kids who both completely bottle refused and I tried everything aside from completely starving them. They had sippy cups from 10-12 weeks and could manage properly from a cup by 6-7m. At least I didn't have to wean off a bottle!

[butterfly86]

My dd was only breastfed for the first day she had a really significant tongue tie and was getting frustrated so I gave up mind you when baby blues kicked in i felt terrible for giving up but thats another story! We started off with tommee tippee but she struggled the teat collapsed and she was getting windy, the midwife said tt bottles are a nightmare and midwives dont like them as the neck of the bottle is too wide and the teat too short we moved on to dr browns because of the wind but she said any bottle with a long teat is the best and we moved on to stage 2 teats at 5 days so she didnt have to work as hard apparently the babies in special care are given stage 2 so they dont tire too quickly. Dd did feed better after her tongue tie was snipped too.