**Today’s post is a snippet from a guest post on MommysBundle.com
If you’ve struggled to get your breastfed baby to take a bottle, you are not alone. Many mothers experience this very same challenge. Stay-at-home mothers may breastfeed exclusively and then for one reason or another choose to introduce a bottle.
Working mothers face this same challenge even more so, especially when they are working outside of the home full-time and need to pump and bottle-feed to continue to supply baby with breast milk.
But the big question of course is, will baby even take a bottle?
After having three kids in three years as a working mamma, here are the best tips I’ve come to learn in helping your breastfed baby take a bottle.
>> Check them out here on MommysBundle.com! <<
I also share one of my secrets in helping my baby’s avoid colic. Don’t miss it!
How do you get your baby to take a bottle?
In the post I shared a few of my secrets on what types of bottles and nipples to use. Here are my favorites to get you started.
Hi Sarah,
Great post my wife and I had both our children with a midwife and not in a hospital but rather a birth center. My wife also Brest fed and could have used your tips and information. The internet is so cool for topics like this I remember having a pile of books to learn and find support for our choices 22 years ago now sites like yours can offer help quickly at your fingertips.
Thanks.
Thanks Mike! That’s great to hear you had your births in a birth center, even years ago. That’s not as common back then. Feel free to share with others you know, like any daughters, perhaps?
Hello Sarah =D
This is a very good post which includes very useful information. I’ll have to ask my mum how I was when It came to the bottle… just for interests sake ha! =)
Thanks
That would be interesting to know. 🙂 Thanks Lawrence!
I had trouble with the bottle. I breastfed my kids and they hated bottles. One never took a bottle. The other switched to the bottle. He never would go back and forth. I wish I’d have had these tips when they were small. Thanks!
I hope it all worked out for you in the end! It’s frustrating how stubborn they can be, isn’t it? 🙂 Thanks, Enid.
Great tips, especially about having Daddy try giving the bottle, that helped us a lot. If you know you have to go right back to work at 6 weeks, then I would recommend trying a bottle a few times within the first month. I waited until 6 weeks with my first son and he refused to take the bottle until he was 6 months old! But with my 2nd we started trying a bottle in the first month and he never had a problem taking the bottle or breast.
Thanks for the tips Melanie! It’s hard not knowing exactly how your kids will react until you try something.
Hi Sarah, nice post. You will really help a lot of families out there that might be struggling with getting their baby to take a bottle. I have four kids and we were really lucky that all of them took to the bottle with ease. I think it is a good suggestion not to force it on them or get stressed if they don’t take to it straight away. Babies can sense your stress, which will only make things worse.
Babies can definitely sense your stress! You’re quite right, Andrew. I think no matter what, encouraging parents to be patient and find joy in feeding their babies will go a long way. 🙂
We tried everything for my brother but he was to stubborn but we did not try to my dat to introduce to bottle it might have been useful and I will definitely tell my aunt about it for her baby. Thanks for sharing
Baby are definitely stubborn sometimes! Thanks for sharing, Furkan. I would love to hear from your aunt if she has any questions about breastfeeding or bottle feeding. Thanks!