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Stressed about daycare (nipple confusion??)

pennynjonpennynjon
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I am so stressed right now.  DS starts daycare in a week.  He is EBF.  I have been giving him a bottle with pumped milk occasionally since two weeks.  We started out with Nuk bottles, but he was gulping because it came out so fast, choking, and had really bad gas pain.  So we tried Born Free, but he still had lots of gas pain from swallowing air.  Then we tried the playtex Ventair Adv.  He did really good with those for a couple of weeks.  The past week everytime I give him the Playtex he chews on it or pushes it out with his tongue and cries.  He wants nothing to do with it.  So today I tried an Avent I had at home with a slow nipple and he was so uncoordinated with his suck that 80% of the milk squited out of his mouth and he acted like it was too fast and he was about to choke.  I am at a loss.  I was already dreading daycare so much and this is making it so much worse.  I don't know if I should try different bottles like Tommee Tippee or Breastflow or just keep working with what we have.  And I hate to keep wasting bottles of pumped milk for him to refuse or waste.  But I can't just send him to daycare and hope he eats.  What should I do?  I plan on leaving work the first few days to nurse him at lunch, but I can't do that everyday.
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Re: Stressed about daycare (nipple confusion??)

  • Matt DvorakMatt Dvorak
    we were unsuccessful trying to get LO to take a bottle for a month - daycare got him to take one well on the second day. Those people are pros at feeding bottles :) also, I cant be in the same house as DS for him to take one so might want to have someone else work on it.
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  • ns1ns1 member

    I'd just keep trying (or have DH try) with the same bottles.  I'm sure he'll get used to it after a while and be fine for dc.  Most babies are from what I've heard! 

    DD screamed when DH gave her a bottle for several times.  We just kept with the same bottles (Playtex Ventaire) and eventually she got used to them.  DH gave her a bottle a couple times a week for a few weeks before dc and she took bottles fine at dc and will nurse fine when she's w/ me!  

     

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  • mcvgalmcvgal member
    My LO is EBF except for one bottle each day with his multivitamin. the first 2 times he got the bottle it was a struggle, took him about 30 minutes to drink 15 mil. but on the 3rd try with the same bottle, he was totally fine. We did find that he feeds better with the Medela bottle vs the Avent bottle

    11.2011 - DS1

    02.2013 - loss at 6 wks

    06.2014 - DS2

    10.2015 - loss at 12 wks

    03.2017 - DD

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