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Babies: 3 - 6 Months
Refusing bottle, daycare starts Monday
My LO will be 3 months old on Monday, and I'm starting back to work that day. She's been refusing the bottle since we first tried at 5 weeks. We've tried every bottle and nipple that we can find and every tip we've heard from friends and found online, and nothing's working. We've had friends and grandparents try to feed her, me out of the house, etc. She spits the nipple out and moves her head to try to get away from it, pushes it with her hands. It really seems like she doesn't realize it's food, even when we put milk on the nipple.
We're hoping that once she's in daycare, the different environment or being hungry enough will get her to take a bottle. But what if she doesn't? Our insurance is through my job so having to quit it to stay home and nurse her really scares me. I work an hour from daycare so I can't run out during the day to feed her.
Has anyone had this experience? How did it turn out? Did your LO end up taking a bottle? If not, what did you do?
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Re: Refusing bottle, daycare starts Monday
When DD started daycare last week, she would only take a bottle from my mom (and that was only a couple of times). She refused it from DH and from SIL, even though I wasn't home. We tried numerous bottles and nipples. I brought up my concerns about it to her pedi at her two month appt and he said that she would not starve herself and she would learn to eat from the bottle.
I was still really nervous - but sure enough, she has been eating like a champ, no problems at all. I hope the transition goes as well for you.
Did you do a "practice run" with your daycare at all? We did one day a couple of weeks ago and it really helped ease my worries b/c she did so well that day. It made the first day back at work a little less fretful.
Good luck!
We finally got DD to take a bottle the Sunday before i returned to work. We spent that entire weekend working with her on it. We ended up having success with the Playtex VentAire bottles. I think the problem was the temperature. We were trying to give it to her room temp or a little warmer, and she ended up drinking a bottle that was warmed more. Other than that, i'm not sure what to tell you - i know how stressful it is. I'm sure you've already tried all of this, but make sure it's other people giving the bottle with you out of the room, make sure you're doing it when she's showing signs of hunger, but not overly hungry, and just be persistent. Good Luck!
Like the PP said, your baby won't starve. They will either eventually learn (took my DD a good 3 days with grandma daycare plus a monday after the weekend to really get it down and not fight it) OR my Pedi said they will get most of their nutrition at night with mommy.
If it helps, I'm sure your daycare people have encountered this before and will work with your Lo
Good Luck!! Oh and DD only takes the Nuk bottles after trying EVERYTHING.