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6 Month Old refusing bottle?

Ann429Ann429
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My dd has been breastfed, but I started introducing the bottle once in awhile around 1 month. Since then, she gets an occasional bottle - maybe once or twice a week. I stay home with her, so it's only been if we are traveling, or DH wants to put her to bed, etc.

All of a sudden she's refusing to take a bottle at all. She arches her back, slaps the bottle, screams, etc. I've tried several times over the last couple days without any luck. I'm getting frustrated heating up breastmilk just to have her refuse it! I may have to introduce a little formula just to "practice."

I know it may sound selfish, but this child NEEDS to be able to take a bottle. We've got a few trips planned this summer, not to mention I'd like to be able to have DH watch her once in awhile so I can get together with friends, etc.

Any suggestions? We use Playtex drop-ins. I don't think it's the bottle - she took it fine before. And now she refuses it before it even touches her lips.

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Re: 6 Month Old refusing bottle?

  • Linds&Chris777Linds&Chris777
    DS started doing the same thing around six months and it's horrible because he has to take a bottle from the sitter three days a week.  He just completely refuses and then nurses a lot more at night.  I was hoping it wouldn't last but we are going on a month of this now and it is so bad that my sitter decided she can't handle it anymore and now I'm forced to find a new one. 
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  • FutureMrsMimsFutureMrsMims

    im going through the same thing. im a stay at home mom who pretty much BF exclusively...however every now and then he would take a bottle....now at 6 months he is refusing and this is when i want to wean him. it first started at 3 months and then we figured out which bottle he liked best and he started taking one occassionally...even took it for 3 days straight when i traveled out of town for a family event and he stayed with my mom. this past monday i told myself that i was not going to give in to him and nurse him. so that morning at 8am was my last nursing and he kept refusing the bottle. he was fine up until 1pm and he started screaming and crying non stop. but i just cradled him and talked to him. i let him know that he had to take the bottle and that his screams was not going to make me give in to him....i almost cried myself cause he was very upset, he eventually got tired of crying and took a nap. but around 3pm he started taking sip after sip and then he would eventually drink a few ounces. so it was a major fighting match but now he is back to taking a bottle but i still nurse him at night. so our routine now is bottle during day and nursing at night. if we dont remain consistent then he will fall back into not wanting the bottle. i hope that helps.

     

    ps. i wasnt worried about him starving because he was still eating his baby food and drinking water/juice from his sippy cup.  

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