My daughter is 5 month old, and breastfeeding, she won't drink from a bottle help?

Question

my daughter is now 5 month old, i breast feed her since she was born, im a full time mother, sometime i want to go out, and i gave my mother in law a formulas and soild food, she wont take them, she was crying, screaming. she called me i came home to feed her, she was all happy. then i try to feed her with the bottle, and she didnt like it, i try all the nipple, she wont take them. help, sometime i want to go out and have fun every oncce a while.. she have to drink my breast milk ONLY! so please give me a good advice??? thank you!!

Answer 1

You may just need to wait until she is older and eating other foods more. At five months, she just wants her mama! And that's normal. As a mother, we often have to sacrifice what we want for the good of our children. How about just waiting another month or so before you try to go out again? Now in the case of an emergency, try having a man feed her. When I was hospitalized, my little one would not take a bottle from anyone but my husband. Warm pumped breastmilk may be the best thing to try rather than formula if you can manage that. Best wishes!

Answer 2

Have you tried the bottles that are shaped almost identical to a breast? They may work. You can find it at www.onestepahead.com If not, try using a breast pump to pump the breast milk for a while. Then she can get use to the bottle before having to get use to the formula and the bottle at the same time. Have you tried Johnson & Johnson's Twist 'n Lock bottles with silicon nipples? Also try a different formula but dont switch too much. Have you tried juices and water? Try giving her a sippy cup also. If all else fails, keep trying it. She'll get the hang of it eventually.

Answer 3

First of all - don't try and give your baby 2 new things at once. Formula and the bottle.

If you express your milk and then give that to her in a bottle, she will be much more likely to take it because it is familiar to her. You shouldn't need formula at all!!! Freshly expressed breastmilk is good at room temp for 4-6 hours, so just pump or express before you go!

Second, she isn't going to take a bottle from you at first. She knows that you can feed her another way and at 5 months she is smart enough to be stubborn. So you are going to have to let someone else train her to use the bottle. This takes some hard work on their part... but its worth the effort!

Also, even when you're not going out, try giving her the bottle more often. Just practice with her. Maybe every day at her 1:00 feeding, she gets a bottle. If she refuses to take it, then try not to nurse her til her next feeding. Eventually she will learn that if she wants to eat at 1:00, she needs to take the bottle.

*I'm not saying starve your baby, but your baby is old enough now that she is getting smart and you have to really teach her. When they're younger you can just sneak a bottle in sometimes and they grow acustom to it, but older babies take a little bit more work.

Only other suggestion I have is trying a sippy cup... I haven't tried it but lots of moms (for that age baby) just say skip the bottle.

Good luck!

Answer 4

Breastfed babies often have a hard time transitioning to a bottle, I would recommend pumping and offering it in a bottle. They make special designed nipples for breastfed babies to help ease the transition, they are supposed to be most like mothers nipple. There are several brands so just try one out and see how that works. For me, I always used a moby/cuddly wrap carrying sling. It makes it very easy to nurse in public as you can carry baby, position on the breast and cover up. If you cannot get a wrap, bring a large blanket or two depending on the weather, you don't want her to overheat or be too cold and your own comfort for that matter. It has to be large enough that you can comfortably fit your head under it in case you need to see to position baby. It can sometimes be uncomfortable nursing in public, especially if baby kicks off the blanket and it's suddenly a peep show! But remember the law is on your side, you have every right to nurse your little one anywhere you want. If it makes you uncomfortable many restaurants and shopping centers offer a place to nurse. However most of the time it's in the bathroom - ewwwww.

Answer 5

here's a suggestion...
you could buy a breast pump... that way you can store some breastmilk in the refridge for when you go out... and she can be feed by the bottle. the best kind of nipple for a baby coming off the breast is something that feels/looks like your breast to the baby.
playtex is one of the best ones to change from breast to bottle.
here's a link:
http://www.playtexproductsinc.com/infant/bottleFeeding_nurser.asp
just scrowl down to nipples...
there is also the breastfeeding section that will show you what they have for breast pumps, if you decide to stay with your milk for the baby.
though what i would do is slowly change her from your milk to formula. or you could try mixing the two... and putting less and less of your milk each time, until she is used to having just formula for her bottle.

Answer 6

Try pumping, but she may just be stubborn. I have two boys and neither one of them would ever take a bottle. I was able to go out once they were about 6.5 months old and could eat a whole meal of solid food and drink breastmilk from a tippy cup. Try pumping and having Grandma, Dad, or friends feed her at the same time every day. You will have better luck during the day then if they are trying to feed her before bed. You may have to confine your fun to the daytime until she sleeps longer at night but you will probably have to be the one who puts her to bed until she is walking (that is a hard time for most kids). Try to find things to do and ways to have fun with her during the day instead of the old ideas of going out at night, being a parent changes a lot of things. Good luck

Answer 7

Try using a breast pump before you go out so your mother-in-law can feed your daughter warm breast milk. It will be a hard transition, but you daughter needs to learn that it will be okay if another person feeds her. Where is Dad? Doesn't he ever try to feed the baby?

Answer 8

definatley you'll need to use a breast pump...formula isn't going to cut it...it's just not the same. try pumping your mild and feeding her from a bottle yourself ...using a nipple that most looks like a nipple. after she gets used to you doing this, then let the mother in law feed her while your there. see if she's doing it right. do this until your both comfortable. it's hard to have fun going out if your worried about your baby not eating! also...are you sure your mother in law WANTS you to go out...??? think about that too

Answer 9

Babies and young children have much sharper senses then older people do and that is why children are so resistant to eating certain foods. The taste is much sharper and unpleasant.
Perhaps the feel of the artificial nipple is unpleasant in your baby's mouth. Perhaps the taste of formula is just not something she can stand.
I know it's difficult now because you want to have some time to yourself but, unfortunately, that is what parenting is about. Sacrificing yourself for the sake of your child who, I may remind you, had no say about the matter when you decided to conceive her.
You need to accept your responsibility to her for now and put your own wishes second. Remember though that soon she will be grown and you will wonder were the time went. Enjoy her while you can because she won't be little for very long.

Answer 10

I had to stop breastfeeding at around the same time and like you I tried all the bottles and nothing worked until I tried the breast bottle you can get them on line at nurser.com or adiri.com they cost around $20.00 but it is worth it. It has the option of a single hole flow or three hole flow. It looks like a clear breast. This bottle was a life saver for me and after a bit she went on to take regular Playtex bottles after that. Good luck.