XP - refusing bottle

peanut107

My 8 week old has been refusing a bottle. We started trying to give him one at 5 weeks. We have tried using dr browns and drop ins with different nipples. Also, I have left the room while my husband trys to feed him. We've also tried feeding him in the bath while he's clam, but nothing has worked yet. 

 

Does anyone have any other tips we can do? I got back to work on march 1st and I'm afraid he won't take a bottle. 

Matt Dvorak

My LO won't even take a bottle if I'm in the house. Our solution - he started daycare and they got him to successfully start taking bottles on day 2. This was after a month of my DH and I consistently trying to get him to take one every day. He will now take a bottle from DH if I am not home, but not while I'm here.

Mrs. Sarah&Micah

lincolngirl:

My LO won't even take a bottle if I'm in the house. Our solution - he started daycare and they got him to successfully start taking bottles on day 2. This was after a month of my DH and I consistently trying to get him to take one every day. He will now take a bottle from DH if I am not home, but not while I'm here.

 This is what happened with us. We tried and tried and DD wouldnt take a bottle from neither myself nor my husband. I even tried to trick her by pretending to nurse her and then sticking the bottle nipple in her mouth and she'd take a few sucks but then realize she wasn't getting the real thing. So we just had to bring her to daycare and the first day she didn't eat anything until 1pm. She kept refusing and refusing until she gave in and took a bottle. She was fine after that until she was 8 months and then started refusing the bottle yet again.