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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
I posted a little bit ago with a similar situation, a 5 mo who refused the bottle and continued to do so after she started daycare. We tried tons of bottles, including the Breastflow, different nipples, different temperatures of milk. Despite that and me being away for the entire day, she would take 1, maybe 2 ounces, tops. We decided to try a sippy cup. I got the playtex kind (they say it is 4 months on) and removed the valve so the milk would flow. They tip the cup into her mouth so a little bit gets in and she drinks. She still does not drink a ton during the day, but will drink anywhere from 6-10 ounces, so better than it was. (She feeds on demand when we are together and eats at night to make up for the day.)

My son refused a bottle for a while, too, but he adjusted after a couple weeks in daycare (he liked his milk really warm) and started drinking from a bottle just fine.

So, having gonen through it twice, OP, here are my thoughts: try the bottle with your providers and try a few different types of bottles and nipples. Try different temperatures of milk. Have somebody else do it. If your DC still will not take a bottle, there are other ways, like the sippy cup method I just described. However, be prepared that your DC may not drink as much as you expect (less than the 12-16 ounces you described) and be prepared for DC to reverse cycle and want to nurse more when you are together and at night.

Good luck!

Did they try the open cup and syringe like PP suggested?  [/quote]
 
 
The poster who uses the sippy cup here.  No, we did not try an open cup or syringe.  We just went straight to the sippy cup without the valve on the recommendation of my midwife who did that with her daughter when she refused the bottle.  I figured it would be a bit neater than an open cup.[/quote]

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