Milk Bottle Adversion

May I check if any mummies have experience handling bottle aversion. My 4 month LO screams refused the milk bottle even though we believe she is hungry. We only recently realised this. This is after many months of trying to pressure her to finsh her milk as she is a poor milk drinker.

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My LO started rejecting milk from around 3 months old. We tried everything, from changing bottle/teats to changing feeding environment, to singing to comfort her, but only worked for a short period of time. in the end, it was increasing her feed interval from 3h to 3.5h that worked for us. now, she will happily open her mouth for milk feeding. also, our ped recommended starting solid food from around 4 months (she was sitting and holding neck well already), to let her forget any unhappy experiences with milk feeding and to start on a new skill. it was tough on us as she had never drank the typical daily milk volume for her age and her weight is on the low percentile. But we realised that we can never force feed her, so try to take it easy!

Dolly

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2y ago

thank u. I am reading a book called: Your Baby’s Bottle-feeding Aversion, Reasons and Solutions - by Rowena Bennett for some insights. I also plan to start her on solids soon as cleared by her PD. jia you too :)

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