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How can I get my 3 month old baby to drink from a bottle?

I've been breastfeeding him and every night since he was born he's been getting a bottle of breastmilk from my husband around midnight. He's never had a problem taking this bottle. About a week ago he started crying during this feeding and not eating. We thought maybe he was eliminating this meal. Then my husband tried to give him a bottle during the day because I go back to work next week. He is refusing the bottle now at night and during the day. We try once a day and he just cries and eats maybe 1/2 ounce. Any ideas? I am back at work so we have no choice. He will need to be fed about 3 times while I am gone. My husband will be with him for the next month. How can we get him to take the breastmilk in a bottle without getting upset?

Oh yeah, we tried formula the first time, before we knew the bottle would be a problem. He screamed his head off so I thought it was the formula. Could this experience have turned him completely off from the bottle?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I had a simular problem. I started applying and testing for jobs and leaving my baby with a sitter when she was about 4 months. I would be gone for hours at a time and my little piggy is a great eater. Anyway, I could not make enough milk to store it and so we tried formula and she hated it. My ped. said that if she gets hungry enough she will eat it. Luckly she was old enough to try cereal before we tried it again. What I did was put formula in her rice cereal instead of breast milk. Her grandmother tried formula from a bottle shortly after she started to enjoy her rice cereal and now she drinks formula from a bottle a couple ounces at a time when she has to. Good luck. I know it can be tiring and frustrating. He is probably just realizing that that bottle is not mommy.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    HE HATES FORMULA

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