Taking A BottlešŸ¼

Hello, my little girl is exclusively breastfed. I am having to attend a funeral in just over 3 weeks time and trying my best to not take my little girl with me and leave her with someone for a few hours but she won't take a bottle. Has anyone got any tips at all or what helped them? Otherwise I will be unable to attend which I am trying to avoid if possible.😊
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Have someone else offer her the bottle, my little boy won’t take a bottle from me as he expects the boob, but if I’m out of sight and dad offers, he’ll drink it no problem! X

Consistency and persistence in giving her a bottle. Doesn’t even have to be a full bottle just put a little bit in and offer it to her everyday for her to get familiar with the bottle. That’s what I’ve been doing :)

Have you tried lansinoh bottles? Those were the only ones we had success with with an ebf baby and we’ve still managed to bf as well as drink from those bottles. They seem to be the closest to bf

I had the same issue since my baby was 6 weeks old! He’s only recently started taking one bottle a day, the only thing that did the trick was daily trying, cheap nutmeg bottles from Morrisons, a warm teat and really warm milk (warmer than you would expect!) I then transitioned him onto lansinoh teats and now he accepts mam bottles too! It took perseverance and many daily battles to get him to take a bottle though!Experiment with different temperatures of milk and warming the teat up - good luck! X

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