My LO is 3 months old and has been drinking ebm from the bottle and I try to latch her on occasional as she couldn't latch on well initially. Recently, she refused to drink from the bottle. She cries and screams very loudly whenever we try to feed her from the bottle and only wants to latch on. Anyone knows why is this so? I thought when we give baby the bottle they wouldn't want to latch on anymore. Now I need to go back to work soon. How do I get her to accept the bottle again?

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They call that nipple confusion. Babies who latch on usually don't like the bottle. That happened to my LO. To make the transition easier before I went back to work, we made sure she drank milk from the bottle during the day. I only let her latch on to me "after work". Others recommend nipples that are similar to latching on like Medela calma because the LO needs to suck before milk comes out, unlike other nipples where the milk freely comes out. Go for softer nipples also like pigeon.

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