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[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]

Are the bottle nipples you’ve tried made of the same material as the pacifier he likes? Mine was fine with a softer latex pacifier, but couldn’t keep the stiffer silicone ones in her mouth. Same brand, same shape, just different materials. But the silicone ones just popped right back out, every time.

That might be something to consider if you continue to try bottles. [/quote]

OP here. I don’t really know. He takes the green Avent ones but they do fall out of his mouth. He will take the MAM ones. [/quote]

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