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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to wait until he's hungry and have dad give him the bottle. Make it a high-flow nipple and just keep sticking it in his mouth. He'll take it. My DS spit out the pacifier repeatedly at 3 weeks but I was determined to make him take it, so I just held it in there.  I don't mean you traumatize the baby, but you just keep on trying. [/quote]

OP here. I will try to high flow. We have I think a newborn or slow flow nipple. We have 3 different brand bottles and he won’t take any of them. We have tried various milk temps, formula, and him being really hungry. He still refused and screamed. He is not a big fan of the syringe but he is used to it now. We feed every 1-2 hours because that’s when he wants to eat. He will take 1 ounce every hour or 2 ounces every two hours. We let him decide and he does turn his head and spit it out even he doesn’t want it. We don’t just feed him to feed him. We don’t go more than two hours between feedings but he always lets us know when he is hungry and he always wants to eat every 1-2 hours. The odd thing is he hates the nipple shield and won’t take a bottle but he will take a pacifier. [/quote]

He's lazy and likes the syringe, it's easier for him!  [/quote]

What do you suggest she does? If she stops syringe feeding that means he gets no milk. [/quote]

He will eventually take the bottle.  [/quote]

That is dangerous advice for a mother of a 2 week old who is not suckling. Not all babies will EVENTUALLY take a bottle [/quote]

But the vast majority will.  OP needs better support from a real doctor, not an LC.  A newborn cannot eat from a syringe permanently  - will not get enough food that way, and caregivers cannot keep it up.  The bottle think is mostly psychological if it is not physiological, and the doctor needs to help figure it out. [/quote]

And OP needs to show the baby some tough love and not use a syringe for at least a day.  The baby is likely just lazy and prefers the syringe.  It has no understanding that this method isn’t sustainable.

It’s not even safe to have a baby who won’t take the breast or a bottle.  What if something happens to OP?  Who is going to dedicate a year of their life to syringe feeding a baby?  Eventually it would require 24-7 feeding since a syringe holds so little liquid.

This is truly a safety thing and OP needs to drop the syringe and continue to offer bottles.  After 8 hours or so, she needs to hand the baby over to dad and leave the house if the baby still won’t take a bottle.  [/quote]

OP here. He’s my child, not yours. I’m been very open and receptive to all advice on here so far. I’ve order everything people have mentioned to try. I’m going to see a new lactation consultant and will be pushing hard to get him evaluated when we see the pediatrician next week. I will not starve my baby. He is only two weeks old and needs calories and nutrition. We are still trying all the methods, but I will not force him to go without food to try to get him to take a bottle. He would take my breasts if he could. Same with the bottle. I’m not going to stop feeding him. He will eventually get this. [/quote]

OP, please ignore this silly person. My baby never took a bottle. Obviously, it would have been a difficult situation if anything had happened to me, but (a) nothing happened to me, as is true for most American mothers and (b) if something had happened to me, his father and grandparents would have figured out how to get him fed. Please don't spend one minute worrying about PP's catastrophizing.[/quote]

OP’s baby won’t nurse OR take a bottle. Totally different problem. [/quote]

How dumb are you? In order for the baby to get better at nursing, you need to let baby nurse and be on the breast often. The baby will likely never end up breastfeeding if she doesn’t continue to latch him. Also, OP said he does nurse and does get some milk out. He had a hard time because of her flat nipples. [/quote]

I see. Your goal is breastfeeding at all costs so you think it is actually good that the baby rejects the bottle. Well OP you can decide what works for you. What you’re doing right now sounds pretty insanely miserable to me and unsustainable. [/quote]

OP is trying to give him a bottle too. She said she ordered more bottles to try and a SNS. [/quote]

Yeah that’s what OP says. I’m trying to figure out why PP is triggered by the posters suggesting more structured attempts to offer only the bottle to increase chances baby will take it. I have concluded that PP is a breastfeeding fanatic who things the goal is breastfeeding at all costs. [/quote]

Still irrelevant [/quote]

Only irrelevant if you have some kind of ideological objection to bottle feeding. I’m still not quite sure what your issue is. [/quote]

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