Any tricks to get a BF baby to take a formula bottle?

[JayDee]

As the title suggests, he's been BF from birth. I did express so he could have a bottle a day for a while at around 2 months but then he got mega hungry and I couldn't, but he did occasionally have water and gripe water from a bottle for wind.
2 weeks ago we decided to try and give him one FF a day, with the view to switching him to formula before I go back to work later in summer. Initially he complained, but took it eventually (had my husband give it not me). Last week, he was a bit off and bunged up one day (teething I think) and was getting really upset by the bottle so I BF him instead. Since then he won't have a bottle at all, pushes his tounge to the front of his mouth so you can't get it in.

I'm thinking that I might try and express again to make sure it's not the taste he's objecting to but any other advice? Thanks in advance

 

[KrisKitten]

Im not a formula feeder but i hope you dont mind me replying?
My aunty had the same problem and i think the problem with her LO was that it was all too much to be having a bottle and formula, so she fed him expressed milk for a day or 2 and once he had settled into that ok, she switched to formula.
I believe that made the transition smoother for her and my cousin xxx

 

[TattiesMum]

If Kris's advice doesn't work and it is really the feel of the bottle that he doesn't like, you could always try going straight to a sippy cup with a hard spout....

My eldest refused to take a bottle when I was going back to work (she was 5 months) and I worried myself sick about it The first morning in her nursery they gave her a simple sippy cup and the little madam drank it with no fuss whatsoever

 

[JayDee]

Thanks ladies, the trick seemed to be... get grandma to feed him. He quite happily took it from her earlier today.
I've also borrowed a different sort of bottle from her so will try that if he keeps refusing ours. Will also try expressing again if he still protests and buy a sippy cup next time I go shopping.