If your baby does not take to a bottle you could try the following:
- Get someone else to offer the bottle
- Offer it at a time when your baby is neither starving hungry nor completely full
- Feed your baby somewhere apart from where you usually sit, so that he does not assume that he will be getting a breastfeed
- Offer the bottle in the dark, so he cannot see it
- Warm the teat before offering it to him
- Try different brands of teat
- If he is old enough, (five or six months) use a spouted beaker rather than a bottle
- If he is on solids, add breast milk or formula to his food so that he gets the goodness via another route
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