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2 month old refusing the bottle. Advice/tips?

CubbyMamaCubbyMama
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She took bottles of formula fine when she was a few days old, and last month when we left her with my grandparents for a few hours, but I guess our mistake was not offering bottles regularly (actually, at all) since then. 

We've been trying for over a week now, and so far she just kind of licks the nipple and makes a yucky face, although occasinally she'll drink a little--maybe 1/2 ounce.  Other times, she cries and gets really angry.

We've tried everything we can think of: offering after nursing on one side, when she's really hungry, when she's probably NOT hungry; with DH holding her various ways, walking with her, etc. and the same for me; a couple of different bottles/nipples; breastmilk and 2 or 3 kinds of formula...no dice.

Any other suggestions?  We have a month until I'll be away for 5-6 hours one night and she'll need to take a bottle, and then I go back to work PT in 2 months, so we do have some time, but don't want to be panicking at the last minute!

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Re: 2 month old refusing the bottle. Advice/tips?

  • DiAnne82DiAnne82
    Have you tried a different kind of bottle? Are you using slow-flow nipples?
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  • MissesRootbeerMissesRootbeer member
    DD used to throw a huge fit everytime we tried to give her a bottle.  We tried all different kinds of bottles, nipples, flows, temperatures, etc.  Finally we found that she will take a fast flow latex nipple for the Playtex drop-ins, and nothing else. 
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  • LLB430LLB430 member
    I am dealing with the same thing!  No advice b/c nothing has worked.
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  • lisad40503lisad40503
    I hate to tell you this but nothing worked for us.  We tried all kinds of different bottles, nipples, etc.  with no success.  When she was 4-5 mos I started trying the nuby beginner sippy cup and also a little cereal.  The sippy cup didn't make her mad like the bottle and she got the hang of it pretty quickly.  Now if I have to be gone dh can give her the cup and a little cereal at least.  GL!  I know it's nerve wracking.
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  • lisad40503lisad40503
    Oh I did forget that early on dh gave her formula using a medicine syringe once and that worked at the time.  It wasn't something we did regularly though.
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