9 months and refusing a bottle.

[Mrs-N]

its only recently joshua has been refusing his bottles.

he sees his bottle and stresses out.
ive tried putting his milk in his beaker but doesnt want to know.

he has 3 bottles a day, when he will take it.

i dont know what im doing wrong.

yesterday he only had 2 bottles all day. one in the morning and one before bed.
he had 11oz all together.

this is when he usually has his milk.

8.00 has breakfast and gets dressed
9.00 has a bottle

12.00 has lunch
1.00 has a bottle

6.00 has tea
7.00 bottle for bed.

 

[embojet]

Perhaps you could try giving milk before meals rather than after?

 

[Mrs-N]

ive tried and still not interested.

hes on stage 2 milk for hungry babies still so i prefer to give it to him afterwards so he doesnt fill up on milk

 

[debralouise]

Grace is a little the same - she could leave out her bottles really altogether.

Like Joshua, she has 3, one morning, one afternoon and one before bed.

I found that she wasn't interested in the afternoon one if it was too close to her lunch coz it's like another meal really so I made her afternoon one much later and she enjoyed it when she felt like a little snack around 3pm ish.

Seems to work for us at the min xx xx

 

[Whisper]

Perhaps you need to space out the milk from the meals more?

Amelia's day is like this...

7am Breakfast
10am Bottle
12.30pm Lunch
3pm Bottle
5.30pm Dinner
7pm/7.30pm Bottle

She is now on formula and usually takes between 7 & 9oz per feed.