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UPDATE: Baby Won't Take Bottle at Daycare

eggmankateeggmankate member
edited March 2014 in Breastfeeding
Ahhh! My first day back to work and DD was left with grandma. I called to check in on her and learned that she was screaming and refusing the bottle. Luckily I am working only half-days this week so it was only for one feeding. I'm super stressed out about this though because she handled bottles OK with DH (fresh milk straight from my breast) around 8-10 weeks. She's 12 weeks now. I will be returning full-time pretty soon.

At first we thought she didn't like my frozen milk so this afternoon my mom tried to give her milk I pumped this morning. It had been refrigerated and then warmed in hot water for a few minutes. We tried Tommy Tippee (this is the brand she did OK with DH a few weeks ago) and Born Free, but she wailed with both. I'm willing to try different nipples and bottles, but really just wondering how important the temperature of the milk and bottle are to the baby? I want my mom to experiment with the temperature some more tomorrow. I thought we warmed it adequate, but reading from some that sometimes it needs to be really warm.

Tonight we'll try DH again with fresh expressed milk and see if she takes it.

Also, did anyone else run into this problem and just eventually the baby just figured it out and started doing it? She starts at the daycare center on Wednesday and I'm nervous that they won't try as hard as my mom is to give her a bottle. Ideas?

UPDATE: I thought I'd write an update for anyone that is following this or finds this message later in searches looking for solutions. We started at the daycare center today and I came to pick her up expecting to hear a so-so report on bottle taking. Instead the provider said that she took the bottles totally fine! I was absolutely shocked. Apparently what worked was to feed her so that she's away from the provider's body thus not confusing it with breastfeeding. She faces the provider, and the provider puts her leg up to prop and DD rests on that leg to eat. This was with the Born Free bottles. The Daycare provider said that she's never once had a kid that wouldn't eat at all and that this is always solvable.
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Re: UPDATE: Baby Won't Take Bottle at Daycare

  • cinderincinderin member
    my baby refused the bottle his first day at daycare and went on to take bottles totally fine. 

    I think it is more of an adjustment to having someone new care for them than the bottle itself (JMO). 

    I would say just keep practicing. I found it helps to kind of have some milk on the tip and touch it to the baby's lips so they get a taste. 

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  • eggmankateeggmankate member
    I just had DH try to feed her fresh milk from the breast and she fussed all the same. So now I know it's not a milk taste or milk temperature issue.

    And yes, I do hope the daycare workers are more experienced with this because I feel so bad!
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    BFP #2: 3.26.13, EDC: 12.7.13. Anya born December 9th, 2013!
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  • YummeeCookeeYummeeCookee member
    My DD also randomly started refusing bottles one day after taking them fine for a month. We had been using the Avent Natural bottles. After reading different suggestions, I decided to try the old school latex nipples. She finally started bottle feeding again with those. She takes them from DH w coaxing and patience. Just started DC today and she finished half of the bottles I sent her with so I am glad to know shes not starving. If youre willing to try it, the latex nipples are pretty cheap. They work with the Medela bottles that go with my breast pump too, so another bonus. Good luck to you.

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