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Frustrated.
Karter won't take an effing bottle. I am annoyed. If I give it to her she just chews the nipple. I have held out while home. She just cries and cries. I have left her for 7 hours. She never gave in and just cried the entire time. Unless she was eating solids.
I have tried giving her milk in a sippy. She chews the sucker part. She will take it out of a regular cup but so much spills that I just don't know how much she is actually getting.
I have tried formula. No go.
I want to have a spa day, which requires me to be gone for the whole day since the spa is so far away. I want to go out for my friend's birthday but I can't. She isn't sleeping through the night anymore either. So I can't go out after she goes to sleep. I want to go to a Sharks game but it is three hours away and three hours long, I can't leave her for 9 hours. This is killing me.
I am frustrated. I am bitter. This doesn't effect anyone but me. Timm is going out on Friday for the birthday shenanigans. I get to stay home by myself.
I am going to try the sippy cups with the straw and after that I have tried every possible sippy cup that I can find. If she refuses that one, I am stuck to her for the next four months. I can't leave for more than three hour stretches.
I need a ticker counting down until March 14, 2011. That's the day I will be dropping all daytime feedings. And the night and morning feedings will dwindle a little bit daily. I will not be BFing after 13 months.
Thanks for listening to my rant. I am just feeling sorry for myself and a little left out tonight. I will get over it.
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Re: Frustrated.
Bless your little heart. That has to be frustrating. I hope you find some relief soon.
I was talking to him last night. He has nothing really to say. He doesn't go out that much but the fact is that he CAN go out whenever he wants to. I don't even have that choice. He told me, "I haven't gone out without you since the giants game two months ago." I tried explaining that I haven't gone out without him or baby since the besties wedding (and only one time with him and without baby) and now I can't go out at all because she won't take a bottle.
As of last night, I am trying to soothe her to sleep without the boob for every other wake up. This 8 month regression is ridic, BTW, I feel like I have a newborn again. Every two hours?! WTF. Anyway, she's woken up three times so far and it only took her 20 minutes to get back to sleep each time. Except the time I went in to feed her. But 20 minutes isn't too bad.
I am actually thinking that maybe I will go out on Saturday night after she goes to sleep and leave Miss K home with Timm. If he's alone he will have to figure shiit out on his own. And I will be buying that bottle/nipple today from Target. Thanks for the rec.
Love the new ticker! I agree with Lib try the vanilla flavor, maybe the sweet will entice her to take the bottle. We went through this with N when I started work, he refused the bottle anytime I was home with him but took it just fine from anyone/everyone else.
Maybe have Timm go in there with the bottle. Since she doesn't associate Timm with the boob, she might take it from him.
{{{Hugs}}} I know how frustrating it can be.
I am going to look into the Enfagrow Vanilla stuff. Can I mute it down with breastmilk? Just mix the formula the right way with water and then add breastmilk? I have 100oz of breastmilk - all saved so I could go to Vegas with Tammy and Marelina this weekend and now she won't take a bottle and I would hate for it to get wasted.
Although, now I am tempted to book a ticket to Vegas and leave on Saturday anyway now. Come back on Sunday morning. Hmmm...
I'm sorry for what your going through. I have no advice just hope that things get better soon.
Just curious and sorry if you mentioned this and I missed it but did she ever take a bottle and is just now refusing it or has she never taken bottles at all?
Book the ticket & enjoy yourself, I'm pretty sure she'll end up taking a bottle or living on solids until you return home.
Gavin just started taking a bottle again this week. It's a Playtex drop-in with a latex nipple.
I think just going away overnight and leaving her with Timm is best. She won't starve. They will be fine, and you'll get a night off. Go have fun!
I'm so sorry you're going through this, it really sucks. I don't have any advice on getting her to take a bottle... but you had mentioned that she will only chew on the sippy cups. Have you tried the Nuby brand? I had the same problem trying to get Z to go from a bottle to a sippy cup - he wouldn't suck to get the liquid out, just chew. So I found a cup by Nuby, here's a link (I hope) https://www.toysrus.ca/product/index.jsp?productId=3172931
The spout has two slits that will open if it squeezed at all. Z was encouraged when he chewed the spout and the liquid started going into his mouth and eventually got the hang of it properly. It's still a bit messy at first but not as much as a grown-up cup. Something to try???
I have thought about it. But my goal is to make it to one year, damnit. In an ideal world, she would take BM from a sippy. And wouldn't go back to a bottle at all. Then I just have to wean from the boob and not a bottle too.