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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not to side track this, but for people who say their baby wouldn’t take a bottle - I just don’t get it.

I am pregnant with my first so zero experience. And my mom claims I was this way.

But two questions:

(1) did you try introducing bottle in first 2 weeks of life?  That is what my night nurse who I am hiring told me we’d do … exactly to avoid this outcome.

(2) if you didn’t do (1) - which does seem to be a big issue) - what happens if you just don’t feed except offering bottle.  Like why can’t you just….make it happen?  I know that sounds profoundly ignorant in some ways but in other ways, I’m sorry, but won’t the baby eventually just give it a try out of …. Hunger?

Not taking a bottle literally won’t work in my lifestyle so my child would starve. I don’t get it.

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I was a PP that had a kid who wouldn’t take the bottle. He was born premature and was bottle fed for weeks. He had to learn how to nurse between 5-6 weeks. Once he learned, he only wanted the breast. We tried having my husband feed him with a bottle. He refused. When I went back to work, the doctor promised he would eat when hungry. I had pumped milk for him every day for the nanny to give in a bottle. Some days he ate nothing. Some days he had 1-3 ounces the entire day. He would take a small amount to take the edge off his hunger and then wait for mom to come home. [b]Then he would nurse all night every few hours. [/b]At one year, the doctor was worried about his small size so she recommended I keep nursing him at night and focusing on high calorie solids during the day. She told me to put butter on everything. She admitted he was one stubborn kid and he defied her promise that he would drink when hungry. We got him on a sippy cup as soon as we could and he was better about drinking milk when he could do it himself.

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This is where you went wrong.  You don’t go along with that.  You have them scream all night one night and then the next morning offer a bottle.  Done.  [/quote]

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