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Bottle strike

huxtablehuxtable
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I started work last week and LO took the bottles great the first and second day.  (Before I started work, she took the bottle fine.)  On the third day (Friday) she screamed bloody murder when my caregiver tried to give her the bottle and when she finally took it, only drank an ounce.  We tried this weekend to give her one and she did the same thing.  She still nurses well, just is refusing the bottle all of the sudden.  Any suggestions?

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Re: Bottle strike

  • jordane679jordane679

    My son did this same thing when he was about eight weeks old and I was so frustrated because I couldn't find help on any websites. He refused the bottle for four weeks and then went back to it like he had never even been on a bottle strike. All we could do was just keep offering it and wait for him to start taking it again. As you probably know, it's not about hunger so there's no "starving them into submission." All you can do is nurse her as much as you can when you're with her and wait for her to get over it. That's the hardest advice to hear, I know, because it breaks your heart to think that she's hungry or missing you when you're away from her but it's the only thing that worked for us.

    There's also a chapter on bottle strikes in the book The Milk Memos that I found encouraging if not entirely helpful.

    Hang in there! I hope it's a short bottle strike. 

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