daycare : breast to bottle question

[cupcake]

so i put my little one into daycare
and the babysitter said he wouldnt take from the bottle at all except a few sips. he was there from 9am to 4pm! The only reason she didnt call me to come and nurse him was because he ate fruit and vegetables in a soup that day which had fluids. I have been nursing him exclusively for 6 months and am now pumping for him. He has had a bottle maybe 3 times in his life. Once my mom gave it to him. once my husband and once me. The last time was very recently while on vacation i gave him a bottle and he ate from it no problem. It was a medela bottle that attaches to the pump. So I sent him with that bottle to daycare because i thought if hes already eaten from it it will be fine. But no! He wouldnt take it. Today i sent two other bottles one Dr Brown with stage 3 teats ( fast flow 6 months +) and one tommee tippe with a newborn teat. I don't know what to do??

Any advice welcome before i resort to her feeding him with a syringe.
p.s. isnt it odd hed eat the food but not the milk?

 

[cupcake]

there must be someone who can help??????????????
i went and bought the mam bottle that the babysitter recommended and he wouldnt take it from his dad, after 3 tries with me he took it?

 

[Serene123]

Tried a cup instead of a bottle?

 

[ryder]

I agree, maybe a sippycup... he may be weirded out by the bottle because it is someone new feeding him. Even bottlefed babies can become weird about people other then mom feeding them.

 

[cupcake]

the mam bottle worked!

 

[Jemima]

Brilliant! Do you you think the MAM bottle was better for him having been exclusively BF? I have bought sooo many types of bottles to get my LO to drink from them but none have worked so far. Just wondering whether to try this one too?

 

[cupcake]

well my daycare babysitter told me that all the babies that have had trouble moving from boobie to bottle have succeeded with the mam bottle. it really has a different kind of nipple to any other bottle i have seen because it is quite flat and long. id say try it you have nothing to lose. also persevere, it took me 5 tries to get him to take it from me the other night, first i try drip some milk on his tongue, then i put the bottle in and he gags a few times but then gets it right.
i feel your pain lol xx

 

[Yorkshire Mum]

Hi - Have jst joined this group. I'm a new mum, with a 6mth baby.
I have just, for the last 6 days, got my baby to switch from breast to bottle.

I had previously tried expressed milk in tommee tippee closer to natures bottles, but she refused them after I attempted giving her formula. Shes now 6mths and have just tried the Mam Ultivent bottles, I got them directly off their website on buy1 get 1free, so I thought it would be worth the attempt to try switching.

She took to them straight away, the teat is softer and more shaped like a nipple, I immediately got her drinking every feed out of it and 6oz too, previously I had no luck on the other type of bottle.

How old roughly is your baby? I found the fast flow just a little too fast for her at 6mths but she now doesn't take off me much, maybe a lil cuddle in the morning.

Hope you have sucess, my partner still wont try feeding her as hes afraid she'll cry!!!

 

[cupcake]

thanks yorkshire mum, there must be something to these mam bottles, i also tried the tommee tippee ones , so much about being exactly like the mothers breast like they advertise! the mam bottle i got said on it number 2 for newborns too, medium flow.
its a blue plastic bottle and goes up to about 260mls i think. the babysitter called me today to say that he drank from it 100 mls i was so happy! I would definately try it Jemima!

 

[Jemima]

Thanks for the suggestion! I am going to order one right now, fingers crossed. Do you think the slow flow would be better for my LO? She is only 3 months? x

 

[Bec L]

Hi - Have jst joined this group. I'm a new mum, with a 6mth baby.
I have just, for the last 6 days, got my baby to switch from breast to bottle.

I had previously tried expressed milk in tommee tippee closer to natures bottles, but she refused them after I attempted giving her formula. Shes now 6mths and have just tried the Mam Ultivent bottles, I got them directly off their website on buy1 get 1free, so I thought it would be worth the attempt to try switching.

She took to them straight away, the teat is softer and more shaped like a nipple, I immediately got her drinking every feed out of it and 6oz too, previously I had no luck on the other type of bottle.

How old roughly is your baby? I found the fast flow just a little too fast for her at 6mths but she now doesn't take off me much, maybe a lil cuddle in the morning.

Hope you have sucess, my partner still wont try feeding her as hes afraid she'll cry!!!

Thanks for this. I am tempted to try Poppy with one so my hub can give her an EBM feed. She has also started to refuse the Tommee Tippee ones, despite the fact she used to take it no prob. Problem is she got to the stage when she would only LOOK at the bottle and start crying so don't even think it was a teat issue

 

[cupcake]

Thanks for the suggestion! I am going to order one right now, fingers crossed. Do you think the slow flow would be better for my LO? She is only 3 months? x

depends what she is used to , if you can get the first stage and second stage teat, then you ll be covered. the second stage says for newborn too so i dont think that it wouldnt be good for her,but if i could have i would have bought the slowest and second in line just to be sure to succeed.