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Won't take bottle...help!

j&j1999j&j1999
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So dd is 10 weeks old and has had about a half dozen bottles in her life that she took just fine....until about a week ago =(  Since then she has been fighting them and it is getting worse.  Monday, yesterday and today she has screamed her head off and flat out refused it.  We have tried 3 different bottles all of which were refused (even though they were taken in the past).

Any tips from someone who has been here before?  I am having surgery on Friday and will also be away from her tomorrow morning, not to mention I am returning to work soon so her taking bottles is a MUST!

TIA =)

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Re: Won't take bottle...help!

  • CosmoMurphyCosmoMurphy
    DD did this and in a last ditch effort we switched the nipple to a medium flow (3 hole) kind and it did the trick.  She just wasn't getting enough per suck. Hope that helps!
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  • thatsmarythatsmary

    Ask on the breastfeeding board too if you didn't already.

    Are you using fresh breast milk in the bottles or frozen? Or is it formula? It could be a temperature thing or the taste might be off (with frozen or formula). 

    Try expressing a little bit of the milk onto her lips from the bottle. Maybe she's not remembering what's in it.

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  • RumbleLinaRumbleLina member

    What kind of nipples are you using? Check the flow and if you are using a silicone try a latex or vice versa. DS flat out refuses to use latex now and won't eat with them, which is fine since we only had 3 of those nipples anyways.

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  • CindiLu1CindiLu1

    My first DD did not take her bottles either and it turned out to be a fixable problem with my milk!  I had too much of the protein lipase in my milk and it broke down the fats and made the milk taste soapy and really bad.  It didn't take more than an hour for it to taste bad.

     You might want to try just a drop of it on your tongue to see if you have the same problem.

    To fix it you have to scald your milk after pumping - google 'soapy breast milk' or 'lipase in breast milk' for the instructions.

    Once I started heating my milk with an avent bottle warmer at work or on the stove at home my milk tasted fine and DD took the bottles.

    https://www.kellymom.com/bf/pumping/lipase-expressedmilk.html

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  • j&j1999j&j1999
    imageCindiLu1:

    My first DD did not take her bottles either and it turned out to be a fixable problem with my milk!  I had too much of the protein lipase in my milk and it broke down the fats and made the milk taste soapy and really bad.  It didn't take more than an hour for it to taste bad.

     You might want to try just a drop of it on your tounge to see if you have the same problem.

    To fix it you have to scald your milk after pumping - google 'soapy breast milk' or 'lipase in breast milk' for the instructions.

    Once I started heating my milk with an avent bottle warmer at work or on the stove at home my milk tasted fine and DD took the bottles.

    https://www.kellymom.com/bf/pumping/lipase-expressedmilk.html

    I did taste it and it does taste odd to me, not sure if that is just bm or if it the lipase you mention...but let's assume it is lipase, does that mean the 2 gallons I have in freezer storage is bad???  OMG!

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  • CindiLu1CindiLu1
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    My first DD did not take her bottles either and it turned out to be a fixable problem with my milk!  I had too much of the protein lipase in my milk and it broke down the fats and made the milk taste soapy and really bad.  It didn't take more than an hour for it to taste bad.

     You might want to try just a drop of it on your tounge to see if you have the same problem.

    To fix it you have to scald your milk after pumping - google 'soapy breast milk' or 'lipase in breast milk' for the instructions.

    Once I started heating my milk with an avent bottle warmer at work or on the stove at home my milk tasted fine and DD took the bottles.

    https://www.kellymom.com/bf/pumping/lipase-expressedmilk.html

    I did taste it and it does taste odd to me, not sure if that is just bm or if it the lipase you mention...but let's assume it is lipase, does that mean the 2 gallons I have in freezer storage is bad???  OMG!

    Unfortunantly it does mean that it has the soapy taste.  There isn't anything wrong or sour about the milk though so I saved my original stash and put a * on the labels.  Then when my DD was a little older she didn't seem to mind the taste as bad and she would drink it. 

    Mine tasted REALLY bad when I tried it.  There was no mistaking that it was off.  I tasted some right from the source too and it had an ok sweet taste so I could for sure see the difference and why she was rejecting the bottles.

    I hope this helps!  I remember being so frustrated and in tears trying to figure out why should wouldn't take her bottles at daycare.  I tried different bottles and different nipples before I discovered that the fix was to scald the milk.

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