i would like to ask if anyone has any ideas on how to get babys off brest feeding onto bottles

Jonellyn - posted on 02/10/2009

I THINK YOU MISSED THE POINT ON WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SAY.. IF SHE SEES YOU SHE'LL WANT YOU... TRY AND FIND SOMEONE YOU TRUST AND LEAVE FOR 6 HRS, SHE WILL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO HAVE A BOTTLE... IT WORKED FOR MY DAUGHTER AND I NURSED FOR 18 MONTHS I WOULD OF GONE LONGER BUT I WAS REALLY SICK, MY MOM HAD TO HELP ME OUT AND I HAD TO LEAVE FOR AWHILE... JUST LET THE OTHER PERSON KNOW SHE WILL CRY..ITS OKAY SHE IS FRUSTRATED BUT EVENTUALLY SHE WILL DRINK.... LET EM KNOW HOW IT GOES..BEST OF LUCK!!!

Denise - posted on 02/10/2009

My daughter is 3 months old and i go back to work in three weeks. I posted on here several weeks ago. My daughter is breastfeeding and refuses the bottle. We have tried every kind- every nipple and nipple speed-bottles that look like the breast-cups and medicine droppers. We have tried all the tricks-different people feeding her-me in the house/out of the house.  I try slipping it in during BF. We tried everything.  Nothing works. She pouts all day until I come home and she is normally a very happy baby.  I feel awful for her but do have to return to work.  Everyone promises me she will be hungry and will take it when she realizes I am not around.  That is so sad to me though.  I am hoping a miracle happens by March 4th. I guess this is what motherhood is all about!

Chloe - posted on 02/09/2009

you could try giving her a couple of bottles with breast milk in them and as she gets used to feeding from a bottle change the breast milk to powdered milk-(did u want her on formula or was you thinking of expressing) you could also try her with a dummy to get her used to sucking a teat.my son has the breast,bottle and a dummy.

Fredericka - posted on 02/09/2009

Hi Trisha,

My advice to you would be to introduce her to a nipple more in the form of your breast. (Avent naturally )is a good brand. When I wean my son to bottle I would wait to feeding time and give him half B.M and half formula using the Avent and Dr. Brown bottles.

Felicia - posted on 02/09/2009

I am in the same boat, but the only difference is that my daughter has been bottle fed/breast fed since she has been born. She is now 11 months and I have been giving her the bottle more often but at night she wants to breastfeed. I think she is more pacifying than anything but she will not take the pacifier. I do feel your pain.

Krystal - posted on 02/09/2009

i had to trick my son into taking a bottle. while nursing i would wait for him to stop sucking to swallow, and then i would break the latch. i would put the bottle in his mouth without moving him out of the nursing position. he would only take a couple of sucks off the bottle at first but eventually he would gladly take a bottle.

good luck!

Jeannine - posted on 02/09/2009

I had this problem with all 3 of my kids...I had to leave them with my husband for a full day and my firstborn literally didn't take it all day long until finally that night he took it.  My 2nd and 3rd it only took missing one feeding before they decided to give in.  Also I tried the bottles that mimic breastfeeding and it really helped (they don't have to change the way they suck on the nipple).  Its called Dr Browns.  I tried everything though...it's not easy but she'll get the hang of it...

Trisha - posted on 02/09/2009

thankyou i think i will defently try that i think it is the comfort mostly because she drinks juice out of anything or mybe just fussy ha,ha

Nikki - posted on 02/09/2009

A laction consultatnt I know, suggested that I use a breast shaped bottle when I'm ready to make the switch and go back to work.  They literally look and feel like the breast.... just google breast shaped bottles, you might give a couple of different brands a try!

Trisha - posted on 02/09/2009

its bottles ,cups,anything i try giving her with milk in she wont take she will taste it but then shove it away and ive not got enough milk for her aswell shes always wanting more thats why i think it wud be best if she was on bottles

Stephanie - posted on 02/09/2009

At 8 months, your dd should be able to drink from a sippy cup. My niece refused any bottle, but would drink her milk from a sippy at 7 months. It worked for while my sister was away from her while working, and she could just breastfeed when they were together.

Trisha - posted on 02/09/2009

Thankyou and i tied all different kinds off milk different teats different size bottles cups and when i didnt feed her all the way through the day she was having tantrums all day but when night time come they would get worse and she only took 3 ounces in the whole day  and lost weight as the week went by so i started feeding her again

Jonellyn - posted on 02/09/2009

my daught refused the bottle for a long time till I was able to leave her with my mom for a whole day, and she had no choice but to do the bottle, a chld will eat when they are hungry, leave her with someone, who know she might cry and after a few hours the baby will take the bottle, try the nipple shape rubber nipples and if you use anything like a nursing necklace or if she plays with your hair let who ever you choose do this to. PATIENCE IS KEY!!!

Holly - posted on 02/09/2009

The best way to go about it is to cut a normal breastfeeding session out every 2 days and replace with the formula of choice or whole milk (if the baby is 12 months). (It takes about 2 days for your body to get the message to stop producing the milk at that interval) Once you have done this (and it does take a little while), you have then successfully weaned your baby onto the bottle.



Holly, LPN