So, I have been breastfeeding my baby for four and a half months now, and he will sometimes take a bottle (from me or someone else) and sometimes raise such a sustained fuss, for thirty minutes or more, with lots of screaming and tears until he either passes out from exhaustion or gets breastfed.
Nothing has worked for us as a surefire cure for this problem, but what does work sometimes is holding him in a different position than usual for feeding, with his face up against and looking outwards from the person who is feeding him, or feeding him by a spoon or creating a thin cereal to feed him by a spoon in my absence. Hopefully he outgrows this soon or we discover some sort of miracle cure (I doubt there is one).
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ReplyDeleteI found if I place the baby (4.5 months old) in a swing and sit directly in front of him, he will eat from the bottle. I hold the bottle within reach and he grabs it and shoves it into his mouth (much like he does everything), but I think he is excited that "this time the thing I grabbed WAS food!" and he eats and eats. Otherwise in a "feeding" position he screams bloody murder.
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