getting them on the bottle

[star girl]

Any advice on how to get evie to take a bottle? i love bf her and will continue to do it but need a little break every now and then! Any tips?

[LesMTS]

Undermine her self esteem. Insult her a lot. Make her feel there is little purpose or value to her life. Obviously you can't have her fired from a job but perhaps removing tasks and activities that she enjoys and give her purpose will help.
Or, at the opposite end of the spectrum, you could put ridiculous demands on her.

[Charlie Parker]

Put it in their mouth, worked for mine. Will probably take you fucking ages though.

[star girl]

There is a section on this forum called junk talk i advice you both to go to it!
why not leave this site for people who need it? and use it?

[Charlie Parker]

I gave you my advise, jesus. The only way it'll work is perseverance and putting it in their mouth so they get used to it.

[TheCastrator]

a) Put bottle in its mouth.
b) Wait.
c) Wait for it to talk and tell you how much it hates you.
d) Wait for it to walk so it leaves.
e) Realise you wasted your life on a base biological impulse.
f) Death.


c)-f) are just the general things, really. Follow steps a) and b) for your essential bottle feeding nonsense.

[Charlie Parker]

Oh and the dad or someone that isn't the milk mammy is the best person

[sully]

I used to feed Doone a bottle most night's as it helped me bond with her and give Pamela a break.

Need to checl with Pamela but she was quite young when we gave her a bottle. Wasn't quite sure of it at first but we percerveired and we got their. We also gave her the milk at a nice temperature and made sure she was nice and comfy, worked for us.

Best thing you can do is just try it and see what happens.

On a side note Ali you are best ignoring all the unhelpful comments as that's all you seem to get in this place.

Good luck

Originally Posted by Charlie Parker

Oh and the dad or someone that isn't the milk mammy is the best person

Good point.

[wee scary burd]

Use bottles that are designed to imitate breastfeeding. I use Avent, designed to reduce colic as well. Basically if they are hungry they will eat. You tried Evie on solids yet?

[Girshkin]

Eli was straight to bottle, but at one point we had to change him to a different type of teat, so hope this helps!

We gave the second feed in the morning with the new bottle because we thought that if he didn't like it he would just drink later, rather than waking up in middle of the night thirsty. Also, I tried to make sure it was a quiet time - no hubby rushing about getting ready for work, no rush to get out somewhere etc, so nice relaxed atmosphere so it doesn't seem a stressful thing. Part of that involved me singing as well (the loony things you do as a mum! ) as the wee man disagrees with sane society and actually quite likes hearing a wee tune from me!

[cupotea]

I never had any bother with my two taking a bottle after BFing, but my advice is try and get someone who doesn't smell of breast milk to feed her at first with the bottle or she'll just head butt your boobs.

Are you going to be feeding her breast milk from a bottle or formula?

[Charlie Parker]

tommy tipee are pish, the skoda of bottles

[star girl]

evie is on solids now and still trying with bottle to no avail. ill keep trying. cheers for help

[wee scary burd]

Originally Posted by star girl

evie is on solids now and still trying with bottle to no avail. ill keep trying. cheers for help

Are you still bfing? She can take juice now, try that in a bottle, breaks the connection with the milk for a start. If she needs a drink she will take a bottle (heartless tho that sounds!)

[star girl]

she used to take a bottle but i didnt give her one for a week as i didnt need to and then she wouldnt go back to it! ibwill try with juice again. I have tried not giving in but can only last ten-fifteen mins with her screaming before i want to kill myself!!!