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If you've chosen to bottlefeed, you'll want to choose
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and use it safely.
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Suddenly,
my 5-month-old won't take the bottle any more. How can she eat when
I'm not around?
Q: My daughter is 5 months old and has been breastfed and bottlefed
with expressed milk. Suddenly she no longer wants to take the bottle.
She was taking it fine until recently but now when I leave her with
someone she won't eat. What can I do?
A: It can be quite frustrating when little ones refuse a bottle. There
are many different shapes and flows of bottle nipples. Sometimes when
kids reach around 5 or 6 months, they are strong enough, and used
to nursing efficiently enough, that they will start to refuse the
nipples that they used to take. Refusing the nipple itself so common
at that age that nipples often come for different ages--one set for
infants, and another set for kids over 6 months or so. Sometimes it's
hard to guess when to make the change, though.
Once you've decided
which nipple works the best for her, you want to have someone else
offer the bottle to her. Have them start about half an hour after
you leave. They shouldn't try to coax her, but just offer the bottle
and stop if she is not interested. They could offer it again every
30 minutes until she eats.
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