We went out today to buy more bottles...found a couple that look promising. Aoife is not interested in drinking from a bottle at all, so I have jumped on the bandwagon of "more different bottles will do the trick, especially if you spend many, many dollars on them". Today we bought a MAM bottle, and a Platex one with the old-school brown rubber nipple. We also got a squeeze bottle with a spoon on the end of the nipple 'cause I read somewhere that you can feed "difficult babies" with a spoon. Seems to me that spoon-feeding a 3.5 month old is the definition of difficult...I guess we shall see.
Breastfeeding was really difficult for us at the start. I think it was a combination of well-endowed mama, pretty small babe and the fact that I was quite ill from about 5 days postpartum and ended up hospitalized. We finally got it going at about 2.5 weeks, but I was too worried about nipple confusion to introduce a bottle. So we waited and waited...besides, once the "breastaurant" was finally open for business, it was so easy. No washing, warming, refrigerating, pumping, etc. She had a bottle while I had another problem with my left boob and that went ok. I went back to feeding her and forgot about bottles for a couple weeks. That was the clincher. When we tried again at around 8-9 weeks, it was verboten, according to Aoife...she has been resisting us ever since.
Here is our line-up of bottles that have jumped into the fray just be rejected at every turn:
Avent
Tommee Tippee
Mimijumi
In all fairness, I don't think it really has to do with the specific bottle, just that Aoife is a very discerning baby and prefers her milk from the soft, warm tap.
Here's the rub though: Daycare starts in January. And I'd like to go out solo once in a while....so stay tuned for an update on the squeezy spoon thing....
Breastfeeding was really difficult for us at the start. I think it was a combination of well-endowed mama, pretty small babe and the fact that I was quite ill from about 5 days postpartum and ended up hospitalized. We finally got it going at about 2.5 weeks, but I was too worried about nipple confusion to introduce a bottle. So we waited and waited...besides, once the "breastaurant" was finally open for business, it was so easy. No washing, warming, refrigerating, pumping, etc. She had a bottle while I had another problem with my left boob and that went ok. I went back to feeding her and forgot about bottles for a couple weeks. That was the clincher. When we tried again at around 8-9 weeks, it was verboten, according to Aoife...she has been resisting us ever since.
Here is our line-up of bottles that have jumped into the fray just be rejected at every turn:
Avent
Tommee Tippee
Mimijumi
In all fairness, I don't think it really has to do with the specific bottle, just that Aoife is a very discerning baby and prefers her milk from the soft, warm tap.
Here's the rub though: Daycare starts in January. And I'd like to go out solo once in a while....so stay tuned for an update on the squeezy spoon thing....
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