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Won't take a bottle - help! |
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by katiepiatt  (March 2006) (rank 31st) |
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When Oscar was 3 months old, we both came down with chicken pox, and as a result my milk supply almost completely dried up. Oscar was fully breastfeeding at this point, and we had to switch to a bottle fairly rapidly - and he wasn't having any of it!
In the end, the trick for us was perseverance. We had to get into the mindset that if he didn't have the bottle, he wasn't having anything. There was a lot of crying, but we found that if we sat him in a baby rocker chair (so I wasn't holding him with my milky smell) and stuck him in front of the TV so he was distracted, you could pop the bottle in his mouth without him seeing it and he'd have a few good sucks before he quite realised what was happening!
It took a few days of this before we could hold him and bottle feed him, and then by the end of the week he was having a fairly good drink, although not as much as I'd have liked, but he was ill too, so not that surprising.
We did try a range of bottles, teats and beakers, but I don't think that was the problem - we ended up with Avent stuff in the end.
A month on and he didn't look back, and loves his formula.
