Seeking help on turning this boob-a-holic baby into a bottle-holic baby in the next few weeks - she's dropped several percentiles in growth (from 25th at birth to 8th now), and my gut tells me my body isn't keeping up with her hunger... so any advice on weaning from breast to bottle would be welcome here!
She HATES bottles, really anything else in her mouth at all.
Oh, and make that 18 pounds.
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Wait her out. If she gets hungry enough she'll eat, right? :)
Take a pregnancy test--that was the reason my milk supply went down with Mali!
Seriously, my bottle-hating baby detests Soothie-brand bottles the least.
Kaethe, shut up right now, I am NOT pregnant. Do NOT even joke about that.
Getting Gus to take a bottle was a struggle for us, too. I tried to offer him at least one bottle a day for a couple weeks before he went to day care (4 weeks ago). If he wouldn't take the bottle, I didn't make a big deal about it (the books said the bigger deal you make, the more the babies will resist). I allowed him to play with the bottle in his mouth and not drink, if he chose to. However, when he went to daycare a few weeks later (and without me in his sight, presumably), they told me he had no problems taking the bottle. Maybe it will take you leaving the house for long enough for Meg to get desperate for milk and not have a choice but to take the bottle.
With that said, I don't really know what works for one child versus another. All I know is she sure is cute!
Good luck!
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