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transitioning to bottles

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in January 2013 Moms
Lo is four months and I am returning to work. We gave her a bottle at the months but then dh went away for a month and I ebf, now I have to go back to work and she won't take a bottle. Any tips our ideas? She seems to have forgotten how to latch on to a bottle.
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Re: transitioning to bottles

  • 82Sonia82Sonia member
    We started offering a bottle to prepare for my return to work. It's taken us 4 weeks but she's figured it out. Keep trying and buy different bottles.

    Our secret is that we let her zone out watching TV. It helps distract her from being upset that she's not at the breast.

     

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  • chance_encounterschance_encounters member
    Are  you offering her the bottle?  DS will not take a bottle from me but he will take one from my husband or anyone else for that matter. 
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  • st.augbridest.augbride member
    Dd still won't take the bottle. She did just fine and then stopped at around 3 months and has refused all attempts since. I'm back at work now and dh and I are taking turns watching her until she starts a center in a month, so I really hope she starts taking one from dh before then. So far, she's gone 7-8 hours without taking one, and she is screaming, starving and miserable when I get home. It completely blows.
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  • Mason&MamaMason&Mama member

    You also might have to try different brands of bottles, different types of nipples, different flows of nipples. It's inconvenient, but some babies are very picky about what ones they will use. 

    How wonderful would it be if stores sold a variety pack of different bottles/nipples for times like these? 

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