Baby won't take bottle

[Marilyne]

Hi ladies,

My little one is almost 11 weeks old, from about 6 weeks to 9 weeks she would take the odd bottle here and there if I was out or we had company, for the last few weeks she refuses to take the bottle, she either cries, screams or just chews on it. What can I do, I don't want to go anywhere now cause I don't want her to get hungry. She is also taking my nipple as a soother and refuses to suck on an actual soother, again she will chew on it but not suck. Please help

 

[toby1331]

Have you tried different brands of pacifiers and nipples? My LO will only take the nuk pacifiers, anything else gets spit out.

Who is giving the bottle? Sometimes it helps if you leave the room or house and let someone else give the bottle.

 

[Jessica Fern]

My little one will flat out refuse a bottle from me, but has taken one from her grandparents. If I give her a pacifier she spits it out and looks at me like I'm crazy! I am kind of glad, though, because I won't have to break her of one later on. It's like she doesn't know what to do with it. She actually took it out of her mouth, flipped it around, and chewed on the wrong end.
It took me leaving the house before she'd take a bottle. She's five months now, but it's a start!

 

[sarah100688]

I have the same problem. I tried lots of different bottles and did find one that she preceded its called vital baby, you can buy then from Amazon.co.uk. it's suppose to be a specialised breast like bottle and she seems to be ok with them. I'm doing one bottle a day at the moment and then am going to start increasing it for when I want to finish nd. Xx

 

[NoodleSnack]

At first mine took it, but I stopped for a week or two and now he doesn't like it as well. I tried to trick him last week, put him on the breast then once he started sucking, I unlatched and replaced it with the bottle quickly, he sucked for abit then seemed to realize it's the wrong nipple and started crying for the real thing. For a moment there I thought I found the solution I could share with everyone, but no such luck. Sometimes it could be the temperature of the milk, though I've tried different temp and still no luck except when he's really hungry and been fussing for a while.

 

[LDC]

This is a real common problem, it seems to be where LO starts to gain preferences.

My LO is a bottle refuser, has been since about 5-6 weeks, she's 12 not and still won't take it. I've tried loads of different bottles and nothing works. She will take some from a sippy cup though.

Keep trying and see what happens. Remember babies can smell your breast milk whilst you're in the house though, so LO is unlikely to take a bottle if she knows you're there armed with milk!

Xx

 

[Hopeful42nd]

My DD won't take a bottle either (19 weeks now) and we have recently discovered why. I have over active lipase in my milk so it breaks down the fats in it (the fats make the milk more palatable to baby), so it smells/tastes funny in mere hours after pumping it. I was so defeated, I had been working so hard on my stash, up to 205 ounces! Now all that is not going to be used so I uncovered the secret for me is to immediately scald my milk then store which stops the process from occurring too quickly.
Might be worth testing this for yourself, sniff and taste test. It would have a metal or detergent like smell. I described it to SO as that smell when you open the dishwasher after a load is done.
If that's not the issue then just keep at it. Once per day and leave the house when it happens. Good luck, we shall see if this all works for me.