This is such a hard and stressful stage to go though. Just keep offering and she will come around!

Perseverance and persistence are the key words here. Bub will not starve herself, she will get hungry enough to eventually suck from the bottle. I hope you got it all sorted

If baby is breastfed and the breastfeeding mother tries to give the bottle they might refuse in preference for the boob, often helps if the breastfeeder is not home when the bottle is given or in another room

hope you got it solved

Persistence it key. My little one would only take the pigeon wide neck bottles and refused all others.

keep going dont give up ..

ok my friend told me that if you go long enough she will be so hungry that she will have to take the bottle. Haven’t tried this method myself but hope it goes well for u

I hope you have found something that bub has taken to.

Hope you got the advice you were looking for.

There is a new brand of teat out though I cant remember the brand, but it is supposed to be the closest to mimmicking the breast-might be pigeon, tommee Tippee or maybe Avent.

I hope that you have found something by now

I had a huge problem with bottle refusal, I swapped bottles from Avent to Closer to Nature and that seemed to help! Good luck

I would talk to your child health nurse or gp

Maybe try getting somebody else to feed her and see if she takes the bottle for someone else when you’re not in the room

Mine would not take a bottle with a normal nipple. I had to wean her from the breast at 7 months as we were going travelling overseas and I needed to be able to have someone else feed her for me. She flat out refused it all – then I tried a sippy cup (the NUK brand with the soft, clear spout) she just loved it. Haven’t looked back.

Ur right its persistence. If they r hungry they will hv to take it

Hope that’s helpful & good luck best wishes

Here are a number of suggestions. You may already have tried many of them, but in case you haven’t, let’s start at the top and work our way through them. First of all, have someone else give her the bottle while you’re out of the house. Babies can smell their moms from a distance of at least 20 feet, and she may know you’re around even if you’re in another room. Offer her the bottle when she’s not dreadfully hungry, rather than waiting until she’s starving. If she takes a pacifier, try a bottle nipple similar to the pacifier she uses. For example, if she sucks on a latex pacifier, use a latex bottle nipple rather than a silicone one and vice versa. If she just chews on the nipple and plays with it, let her. She may actually start to suckle on it.

Make sure you have a lot of time to put your feet up and relax during this process. If she starts crying and pushes the bottle away, back off, comfort her, and try again. The last thing you want to do is get in a battle with her over the bottle. If you’ve tried three times and she refuses all three times, then call it a meal. Do not breastfeed her immediately. Wait five or 10 minutes, and do something else entirely different before you put her to the breast so she won’t associate her refusal to bottlefeed with immediate gratification.

Some mothers have induced their baby to take a bottle by holding the baby in a totally different position than they would when breastfeeding. Try putting her in an infant or car seat so she is semi-upright, and then feed her the bottle while facing her. Once she is used to taking a bottle, you can hold her as you usually would for feedings. One enterprising father put on his wife’s bathrobe and tucked the bottle under his arm while holding the baby in a breastfeeding position. That won’t work for you, but it might work for Daddy!

I’m sure some people will tell you that if you just wait her out, she’ll eventually be hungry enough to take a bottle. That’s not necessarily true, and I don’t think it’s a good practice for either one of you. Starving a baby into submission is not a good idea. We never want to make mealtime into a battleground — now, when she’s 2 years old, or ever.

Keep in mind that back in the 1940s, mothers were advised to have their babies feeding from a cup by 2 months of age (and potty trained by 6 months, but that’s another story!). If all else fails, you can feed her using a little cup — a shot glass or small see-through plastic juice glass works well. Put her in an upright position in your left arm and bring the cup to her mouth, tilting it gently until a wee bit goes in. She’ll actually begin to lap and then to drink it. I’d practice this with a bit of sweetened water until she gets the hang of it, as you don’t want to waste any of your precious expressed milk! You can even use a hollow-handled medicine spoon to do the same thing.

Often after you’ve tried this, the baby will go ahead and take a bottle because cup feeding isn’t familiar and it doesn’t satisfy her urge to suck. Once she can cup feed fairly proficiently, then you have an alternative for when you are at work — either cup or bottle — and her caregiver can try either.

Some babies don’t eat very much when Mommy isn’t home, and since they have been separated from her all day, may begin waking a bit more frequently at night simply to touch base, so to speak. So don’t be surprised if your baby awakens a couple of times at night to feed after you return to work. Treasure these quiet and intimate times that you have to reconnect with your baby. If you nurse her lying down in bed, you will probably be able to doze off.

I’ve heard many moms in your situation say things like, “It’s my fault. If I had only given her a bottle a day from the beginning, this wouldn’t be happening.” Please be assured that this isn’t true.

Many babies who have been getting bottles all along will suddenly decide at about 3 months that they don’t want to take a bottle anymore, that they simply prefer breastfeeding. And why not? It’s warm, cozy, sweet-smelling, relational, and done their favorite person — Mommy. So while starting an occasional bottle when the baby is ready to take one (once she’s gaining weight and latching on well, and your milk supply is established and your nipples aren’t sore) may smooth the process later on, it isn’t necessarily an ironclad guarantee that your baby will take the bottle when you really want her to.

Good luck!

I had that problem and it drove me nuts till we worked out to put honey but then after 5 mins the honey was gone and she was pushing it away again – it was just persistence …

I was going to say change the bottle or teats try a bit of honest on the teat to get baby to start drinking?