Breakthrough! LO and the bottle

9fraulein

I was on maternity leave for about 6 months and just started back yesterday, with a 5.5 month old who has always refused the bottle. She has been very strong willed to not take the bottle. We've tried countless times. The only thing we had tried until yesterday was me being gone for more than just a few hours. Yesterday I was gone for 6.5 hours and she did not drink from the bottle, although she did drink 2 oz. from the Doidy Cup. Today she only drank half an oz. from the cup and I was gone for 7.5 hours. Her dad has been staying home with her and trying, desperately, to get her to drink. When I can home today, before I even grabbed her from DH's arms, I went straight to warm up a bottle for her and gave it to her, and SHE DRANK IT! Yay! I can keep my day job! Just had to share as this has been SUCH a source of worry for me for the past 5 months! In case anyone was wondering the bottle type, the bottle that won her over is a Mam, size 1 nipple (ordered from Amazon).