Py: glad to know Charlotte is fine...phew! Must have. Een rely stressful..
re: Rejecting bottle feeds
Mrs_neo, Annette,ddnikz: have been reading ur posts past few days n decided I am at my wits end now n really need some advice on what I can do now .
My boy has been on occasional bottle feeds since 1 month old e.g. 3 -4 times a week by my mum when I go out on errands. Using avent teat size 1
till 23dec he was still doin that (11 wk old baby)
then suddenly on 24 dec he just decided to reject ALL bottle feeds by my mum, my hubby n even me.
After reading ur posts, I bought teat sizes 2 and variable flow teats n tried over the next 2 days, he continued to reject.
Thinking he was throwing tantrum, I dragged his feeding time n refused to breastfeed him.but he only cried n cried n even tried goin on hunger strike for 6 hours in the day ( he was previously on 2 hrly schedule in the day)
after 4 days of torturing, I give up already, seeing that he is cutting his feeds from 7 times a day to about 4-5 times of breastfeed after struggling with the bottle.
I have also tried pigeon bottle n teats (thinkin that he could be disliking avent all of a sudden) but same problem!!
I have also tried leaving the house so that he doesn't see
me around.
I was thinkin maybe he has a real fear of the bottle now. Is it possible??
does any mummies have advice on What else I can try??
I have to go back to work in a month's time n it's bothering me real bad...