Baby won’t take a bottle

I get a LOT of people in my office around 4-5 months where baby was never introduced to a bottle in the early months and now baby is refusing all bottles. When talking about bottles, there is no developmental age when a baby needs to take a bottle. The way a baby bottle and breastfeeds are actually completely different. They use different muscle groups and a different action in the mouth. The main difference between breast and bottle feeding is the importance of negative pressure/suction. Baby needs to create negative pressure and a vacuum in the mouth to maintain the human nipple in the correct placement and shape while breastfeeding. Their tongue cups around the nipple and touches the palate to create a vacuum seal to maintain the latch and efficiently remove milk from the breast. The bottle nipple is rigid and does not lose shape. A baby can just compress a bottle nipple and still remove milk, making the vacuum less important. If your older baby won’t take a bottle, consider offering an open cup instead, especially if baby is around 5-6 months when one would be introduced with solid foods anyway. Using a small cup that they can easily grab works great. The @ezpzfun Tiny Cup works great, as do shot glasses, medicine cups, or any small cup that holds about 1-2 ounces. The smallest cup we call a spoon, as the amount of liquid it can hold is small and controlled. So you can always start teaching cup feeding with a spoon!! Yes, it’s going to be messy to start, but with time and practice it can actually be much less stressful to teach than a bottle at that age. This is my Peach at 6 months. She completely refused to take a bottle when I went back to work at 5.5 months and I transitioned her to an open cup and the honey bear straw cup. You can start cup feeding at BIRTH! And it’s a great way to promote the same muscles of breastfeeding on an alternate utensil while working on breastfeeding.

Have you tried cup feeding with your little one yet?

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