M baby is 10 months old and she will not take a bootle at all. She won't even let it near her mouth. How do I get her to transition from the breat to a bottle? I really need help with this.
My son is also 10 months and loves the cups with the little pop up straws or sippy cups. I usually just give him water in them, but I don't see why you can't do milk. My son is also breastfed still and refuses the bottle but loves these two options, maybe because they are more like you are using...a straw and a cup. good luck!
If she won't take a bottle, try a sippy cup. Most babies prefer to take a sippy cup after breastfeeding. When both of my kids were small, I breastfed for the first 2-3 weeks of their lives and then went to the bottle and then on each of their first birthdays, I took away the bottle and we went to a sippy cup with no problems. My kids are now 4 & 7.
Forget the bottle, Just give her a sippy cup. The doc is going to ask you to stop giving the bottle in a couple of months anyway. My breastfeed baby likes the Nuby ones from walmart. they have a soft drinking part and are no spill.
Also if you breastfeed to sleep, you should try to stop before she falls asleep and just rock her and cuddle her the rest of the way to dreamland. My baby and I just started doing this at night and it seems to be going over really well.
T.-
Try the sippy cups that have straws (I think Playtex makes them). When my daughter switched over to the cup- she couldn't get the idea of turning the cup up to get the formula/ milk, but she ROCKED on the straw! Good luck!
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C.
Hey T.!
Yes, the skipping to a sippy is great, but if for any reason you still want to use bottles here are some suggestions:
Face your baby to a TV program or Baby Einstein video. Possibly upright in a chair or lounger. After a few seconds when she is sorta "mesmerized" sit behind your baby and bring the bottle around. She might start drinking without thinking much about it.
Try different nipples. Dr. Browns usually do the trick, but often you have to try a few different ones to make it work.
Make sure you insert the nipple ALL the way in your baby's mouth, and he/she's not just drinking out of the tip of the bottle. Really make sure to shove it in her mouth.
Overall, if you really want him/her to use a bottle...be consistent. You have to offer her/him the bottle every day, at least three times.
Also, are you offering breast milk or formula? Might want to make sure it's freshly pumped breast milk, and the nipple itself is warm when you offer it.
Congrats on nursing for 10 months!
Hi T., I am 30 years old mother of 2 boys, 3 1/2 and 18 months. My 18 month old stopped taking a bottle when he was 6 months old. He just would not take it. He would not suck it, it would just sit in his mouth. Soooooo, I started giving him a sippy cup and it was awhile before he actually learned how to suck it, but eventually he did. I was giving him 8oz of formula twice a day in his cereal so the dr. said that was plenty. Lots of luck.
i had the same problem with my daughter you have to try and get the nipples that feel just like the breast and well you are breast feeding use the nipple and try slipping the nipple in her mouth well she is feeding that should help to get her use to the nipples of the bottles
I too suggest to try a sippy cup. My son never took the bottle either...he was strictly breast fed and took the cup with no problem.
Let someone else introduce the bottle. You have a routine and a bond that is tuff to break. Let your significant other try.
If not. Maybe your lucky enough to jump straight to sippy cups. (Easier to wash!!!)
This may sound funny, but have you tried skipping bottles & going straight for sippy-cups? She may take better to that because it won't seem like a transition as much as a whole new way to eat/drink to her. At 10 months old, depending on how versatile she is, she might not have any problem at all with some of the Playschool cups for beginners. They have handles on both sides to make it easier. Just a thought. Good luck!
T.,
Why not skip the bottle and transition to a cup? Playtex makes some wonderful starter cups and then you won't have to ween her off a bottle at one year. Most pediatricians feel that one can skip the bottle altogether rather than introduce one at that age!
Tiff
I think the others have offered good advice. My sons both stopped taking a bottle fairly early - and they were both bottle-fed babies to begin with. Hopefully, your daughter will enjoy the idea of a sippy cup or a spillproof straw. Just think - you won't have to deal with the hassle of taking a bottle away from a toddler! Yay!
hi T.
i agree with the others....go with a sippy. there's no real advantage to getting her hooked on a bottle to have to wean her from that later on. there are tons of different styles of sippies from straws to nearly nipple like tops to cup like tops. most of them are better for their teeth anyways. i also breastfed my 2 until over a year. i occasionally gave them bottles of breast milk in the early part of the year. at 6 months i started giving them water in a sippy at meals to get them used to it. they always loved it. after that i rarely needed to deal with a bottle while out so i only nursed them or had a sippy with water & food available. it was great because neither of them were ever attached to bottle. in fact, they really didn't want it much past 7 or 8 months even when i tried offering it.
