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Won't take bottle??!

MommaA117MommaA117 member
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help!

My Mom just called. DD won't take my pumped milk! I started back at work 2 weeks ago but only 2 days a week. The first 2 days DD took her pumped bottles ok. Then last Tuesday DH said she refused them pretty much and would only eat an ounce. I of course blamed it on DH not trying hard enough to get her to take it. Now my Mom says that she is fully refusing it. I plan to go buy new bottles. We are using ventaire now and up until now they were fine. I think I'll try the BreastFlow ones. I also want to give her some pumped milk that has not been frozen because maybe it could be lipase from freezing and unfreezing it. Uggh. I'm sort of worried now. I hope the new bottles work and it isn't lipase because I am not doing the whole pain in the butt scalding thing. I'd rather just pump 2 days prior to working to get her fresh, unfrozen stuff. I just hate to have to possibly dump my stash because right now I've pretty much stopped pumping except for when I work and if I am pumping on days she east I'll get much less :/

Anyone else have a bottle rejection problem all of a sudden? Suggestions? Sorry for any typos, this keyboard here at work sucks!

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  • Sarah1116Sarah1116
    Tanner just did the same thing!!!! He started taking the Regular Dr. Brown bottles once a day but his latch became lazy so I wanted a wider nipple.... he refused. My husband and I got a call to come get him from my sister and I could hear him wailing in the background... poor buddy. I just got a Breastflow from Wal-mart for $4.97 and he did really well. It actually took him longer to eat which made me happy I was afraid he would over eat at the sitter with the regular bottle. Kind of a long story just wanted to let you know what worked for us.... Good Luck, let me know how it goes ;)
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  • rainstar752rainstar752 member
    Do you warm the bottles at all?  I heard that can help when they won't take the bottle...
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  • kas80kas80 member

    Yep, we exclusively pumped around 3 weeks and she had no issue with bottles at all.  Then we EBF when we got her back on the breast and didn't try a bottle again until about 10 weeks and she rejected them completely.  We just had to change the nipple.  She needs a really, really slow flow and the old nipples were coming out too fast so she'd let the milk just run out of the side of her mouth and then start screaming.

    We had luck with the Medela ones.

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  • Magenta728Magenta728 member
    Yup! My mom found that J will only take the bottle if she sitting upright facing the tv. It's the weirdest thing.
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  • JuneBugsMommyJuneBugsMommy member
    For what it's worth my son has never refused a bottle of my pumped milk and we use Tommee Tippee bottles.. maybe try those?? He has only had fresh BM in a bottle so far so that could make a difference. Hopefully it is just a bottle issue and not a lipase issue!
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  • JuneBugsMommyJuneBugsMommy member

    imageMagenta728:
    Yup! My mom found that J will only take the bottle if she sitting upright facing the tv. It's the weirdest thing.

    LOL! It cracks me up that babies can be so particular!

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  • LexGatorLexGator member
    My mom was able to get DD to take her bottle by rubbing some milk on her lips with her finger and jiggling the bottle in her mouth after to get her to latch on. Probably an obvious trick, but it worked!
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  • kimberleegmkimberleegm

    imageMagenta728:
    Yup! My mom found that J will only take the bottle if she sitting upright facing the tv. It's the weirdest thing.

    That is exactly how DD is! Especially if I'm the one to give her the bottle, she can't see me and she doesn't like to be held...I'm going back to work Monday so we started bottle training once a day for the past week...not going great but I'm hoping she'll get better:0(...

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  • skidunksskidunks member
    We had that issue a couple of weeks ago and realized he'll take it only if it's warmed. Maybe try that?
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  • MariJo0912MariJo0912

    imageJuneBugsMommy:
    For what it's worth my son has never refused a bottle of my pumped milk and we use Tommee Tippee bottles.. maybe try those?? He has only had fresh BM in a bottle so far so that could make a difference. Hopefully it is just a bottle issue and not a lipase issue!

    We use these too! So far DD hasn't had an issue with them! Knock on wood! I hope you can find a better bottle soon! I'm sure that is the issue!

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  • MommaA117MommaA117 member
    they are warmed. Luckily she took the second and third bottles of the day and drank them all. I still may buy different ones for if this happens again...
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  • bestmaid6bestmaid6

    If it is lipase it can still be an issue even if you don't freeze and thaw the milk. Refrigerated milk can be effected, too. Hopefully it's just a bottle/weird positioning issue that you can resolve easily. If it is lipase, look me up. I've been doing lots of research and tests on my milk to identify how long it is good in the fridge without scalding.

    Best of luck! 

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