bf baby taking a bottle
Hi all,
my baby is just over 3 weeks old now and up until last night was ebf. I've tried to express with no luck so I bought some formula last night to let oh do a feed and give me a break (this kid eats non stop and with an active 2 year old to run after all day I'm exhausted!!). I wanted to introduce a bottle fairly early on so that I can have a bit of freedom from bubs when he's a little older, but it didn't go too well last night. He only took about 1oz and kicked up such a fuss about it that I ended up just finishing the feed myself.
Has anyone else had problems introducing a bottle? Should I just keep trying him with it until he's used to it, or are there any tricks I could try?
my baby is just over 3 weeks old now and up until last night was ebf. I've tried to express with no luck so I bought some formula last night to let oh do a feed and give me a break (this kid eats non stop and with an active 2 year old to run after all day I'm exhausted!!). I wanted to introduce a bottle fairly early on so that I can have a bit of freedom from bubs when he's a little older, but it didn't go too well last night. He only took about 1oz and kicked up such a fuss about it that I ended up just finishing the feed myself.
Has anyone else had problems introducing a bottle? Should I just keep trying him with it until he's used to it, or are there any tricks I could try?
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The way I got him to start taking it again was to offer the bottle before every breastfeed during the day (didn't bother at night because I plan to keep BFing at night until he drops those feeds). At first he wouldn't even let me get the bottle near his mouth but after a while he started playing with it and after about a week of this (I know, groan!) he suddenly started drinking from it. Just an oz or two at first (after which I would top him up with a BF) but it gradually increased until he was taking full feeds and now he's fine switching between the two.
What bottles/teats are you using? I highly recommend the TT CTN ones which are very "breastlike"!
Good luck