Feeding Time

I'm sorry you are having problems getting your baby to take her bottle! It could be that she is not having a growth spurt right now and doesn't want much of anything. Use the vitamins your dr. recommends. Have you tried a different kind of sippy?

I had (well, still have sometimes) the opposite problem with my 13 month old. I've always breastfed him, but he doesn't like ANY food (whether it's baby or off my plate). Finally right before he turned one he started eating some stuff, but not much. I've been trying to wean him for two months, but so far have only been able to replace one feeding with milk, and even then he won't drink much of it (no matter if I use a bottle or sippy). It's very frustrating. But as long as your dr. thinks everything ok and she isn't losing weight, it's probably just a slowdown and will pick back up on her next growth spurt.

Thank you so much. I hope you are right..It becomes very fustrating. yes, I have tried multiple sippy cups..I am going to also buy the cups with straws in it... She isn't losing weight..but she isn't gaining either...She is very tall and thin, like her father . This morning i decided to not feed her jarred food first..I gave her her bottle, she took 2 oz and wanted nothing to do with it, and ate like 1/2 a jar of food. I know that ever since we started jar food at around 4 months, shes never been a fan of breakfast, she does much better with lunch and dinner. She wille at anything I eat, and will drink from my cups, but no a bottle or a sippy, and once she realizes i put formula in it, lips clench!, shes a smart cookie! I just want her to gain some weight and maybe eat some cookies .

about the whys and wherefors of baby refusing the bottle.

Do you know if it's the bottle she's refusing or is it the formula in the bottle? Will she take the formula in a spoon or a real cup?

If she likes drinking from a real cup (yours) have you tried giving her a little cup of her own? A little plastic juice glass or a sippy cup with out the lid? She may want to drink like mommy. It'd be messy, but it might work.

My DD loved the bottle, so I don't have any personal experience to offer. She did refuse to eat pureed food once she was fed solids...no going back, there.

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She does take the food from a cup for about 2 or 3 seconds...then when she kinda realizes its formula, she gets mad!...I think its a little bit of both..i think shes kinda done witht he bottle, and really done with the formula, and only takes as much that will satisfy her vs. fill her...I pretty much am going to have to give her her own plastic "messy" cup...thats the only way, the only problem with that is that she gets tired of doing it after a little bit, and you can only get so much into her pouring it into her mouth. I have tried spoon feeding her, just making it a bit thicker....she won't take it. Come to think of it...she had a test done and we found out she asperates, so they need me to thicken her bottle. I have tried thick it and simply thick..she hated it..thats when all this started. When she was real little we used to put rice for reflux, so i thought she'd like it better, she tolerates it better then the thick it, but still not enough. She was doing pertty good until we started to thicken the bottle.

so that she's getting it indirectly? Like use the formula in porridge, pudding, or hide it in some way in other food?

When you thickened it, did you use a nipple with a larger hole? I don't know if that would make any difference, but it might have been harder to pull through?

If you're seriously concerned about her nutrition, I'd recommend consulting a nutritionist. I respect the medical knowledge of MDs but usually they are woefully undereducated in regards to nutrition. An RN who was also a certified nutritionist told me a few years ago that most doctors are taught nutrition very breifly in med school and from textbooks that have been very little updated since the 50s. Unless they educate themselves, like Dr. Weil, they're simply not as well informed as a nutritionist is.

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