My daughter is 6 1/2 months old and is breast fed. She likes to play with the bottle and she will drink some water from a sippy cup, but any time I've tried to give her breast milk in either one, she wont take it. She plays with it for a while, but when she wants to eat only the breast will do. I have left her with a sitter or her dad, but she will cry until I come home. Is she spoiled? or is there something i can try?
2007-05-11 08:32:14 · 13 answers · asked by meme142 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
is she starting solids yet? if you go to work and she won't take the bottle from anyone then will she at least eat cereal or vegies? she should be fine without milk while you are at work.
2007-05-11 08:38:21 · answer #1 · answered by blank 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had the same problem with my now sixteen month old daughter. Fortunately, she was at a daycare across the street from where I work so I could go and breastfeed her in the beginning. She took the bottle, but only about an ounce to two ounces at a time. Eventually she would drink only bottles at daycare, although she did not like it. Don't worry, your daughter won't starve herself. She will get used to the bottle, especially when she is hungry. Good Luck.
I forgot to add that in the beginning the childcare worker that fed my daughter asked for a shirt that I had worn and she would wrap my daughter in it while she fed her the bottle. I
2007-05-11 15:58:49 · answer #2 · answered by Joy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I weaned my oldest daughter (b/c I was working then), she had a miserable time of it.
My pediatrican told me to pick a feeding that she will need to take a bottle and only offer the bottle at that time. If she skips that feeding offer her the breast at the next scheduled feeding.
So, at 11 am every day I would just give her the bottle, no solids (we hadn't started solids anyway, but you don't want her filling up on solids for this purpose). For a few days, she didn't drink it. I put her down for her nap and she cried b/c she was hungry, and sometimes she didn't sleep, but she cried. After her 'nap' I would get her up and nurse her.
Each day at 11:00 am I offered only the bottle, and then she had a nap and then at 3:00 pm she would get to nurse. ( I probably nursed her sooner than the scheduled 4 hrs b/c she was hungry, but you get the jist of what I'm saying.)
After about 4-5 days, she drank the bottle and we were golden after that. After about a week or so, I weaned the 3 pm feeding to a bottle. No problems.
The key is consistency. Everything with parenting is consistency.
Good luck.
2007-05-11 15:45:37 · answer #3 · answered by sep 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fortunately, she is old enough for some baby food. Have them make her cereal with breastmilk and feed it on a spoon. Have them keep offering water and breastmilk in a sippy cup or bottle. She will eventually cave..........especially right after a nap when she will be very thirsty. One thing that I did was have hubby give her a bottle of formula or breastmilk before bed. I had to hide (usually I took a bath...ahhh, relax!) or she would not take it. I nursed her the rest of the time. She eventually got used to getting that bottle from him before bed, so when I went back to work she was used to taking a bottle........when I went back to work, I nursed her when I was home, as much as she wanted and ended that dad bottle.
2007-05-11 15:43:21 · answer #4 · answered by DuneFL 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My son did the same thing, but as I was gone for longer and longer he began drinking more and more. To begin with he would refuse it totally, then he would take a few sips and cry, then he would take two ounces and cry himself to sleep, but after all of that he began to just accept the inevitable. As much as he fought with me he was a very easy baby to wean. He decided at 10 months that sippy cups and real food was faster and gave up the breast altogether.
2007-05-11 15:39:50 · answer #5 · answered by PEPPER_ON_A_STICK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She isn't spoiled she just prefers the breast. Sometimes it helps if you are not the one to give her the breastmilk in the cup or bottle.
2007-05-11 15:42:27 · answer #6 · answered by Wicked Good 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try having them give her the bottle, food, a sippy, anything OUTSIDE your home. In that environment she's reminded of you.
2007-05-11 15:45:29 · answer #7 · answered by lillilou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have you ever tryed getting a bottle that is like a shape of a breast because she might drink it then.
2007-05-11 16:35:46 · answer #8 · answered by baby daniel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no shes not spoiled shes just doesnt like the bottle just wait a little bit more enjoy your baby, that's so cute that she waits for you , I wanted to breast feed my baby but she didn't and I was really upset.
2007-05-11 15:40:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
she's not spoiled, she just content! Believe me, she will learn to take a bottle real soon! Hunger is a very powerful motivator.
2007-05-11 15:36:17 · answer #10 · answered by parental unit 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋