Saturday, March 12, 2011

I NEED SOME HELP FROM ALL YOU MOMS OUT THERE!!

I need some HELP!!!

The problem all began on Tuesday.  I came home from Mom's Bible Study and Bill and Charleigh were laying on the bed.  Charleigh was asleep and Bill looked perplexed.  I asked how it went.  "I think something possessed my baby."  She had cried for an hour and a half.  It all started when Bill tried to give her a bottle.  

We decided that maybe  we needed to give her a bottle more often so that she will take one when we go on date nights. So today I took  a bottle  with me to meet an old friend for lunch.  I was so glad I didn't try to give it to her at the restaurant because of what happened while I cooked dinner.  Bill tried to give her a bottle and the  same melt down occurred.  I also tried and she absolutely refused. 

I wondered if anyone out there had any other ideas of how to get her to take a bottle again.  If you do PLEASE leave a comment, soon!!!

3 comments:

  1. DaNae, John did this too. He conveniently refused the bottle (for the first time...he had taken it fine before) when I went back to work. We tried switching the actual bottle. I think what ultimately worked was switching the nipple. I ended up using the Medela nipple on one of the ventair bottles. I was a little nervous using that particular nipple because it was faster than I thought he needed, but he liked the softness of it. Other tricks: I would swaddle him while I gave the bottle. I know some babies prefer mom to feed the bottle over dad--you could try that and see if it is her protesting the server :). The other thing I used with John was one of those large exercise balls---it was a magic cure for all melt downs with him. I would hold him in the cradle position (like I was going to nurse him) and bounce with him in my arms on the ball. I would bounce with him while feeding him too and that helped him take a bottle. Hang in there!

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  2. Honestly, Some kids take bottles, some won't.... all three of our kiddo's were different.
    Matthew -- super easy, didn't care if it was mom or bottle as long as he got it every 4 hours almost could set your watch by him.
    Joey -- wouldn't ever take a bottle, not from mom, dad, or anyone else. Tried all sorts of nipples, never found one that he liked. But would take a sippy cup, so would pump & give it to him out of a sippy from pretty early on (I think like 3 or 4 months).
    Abby -- depended on her mood. Somedays she would take a bottle, somedays she wouldn't. She did have certain nipples that if she was in the mood to take a bottle, were the only ones she would take. But you never knew whether she would take it or not.
    I was told, that they won't starve... eventually if they get hungry enough, they will take it... but that didn't really help.

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  3. Aviah has been bottle fed since she was just a few weeks old. Sometimes if her tummy hurts she will do that. I know she is hungry but she just screams here head off. So I will rock her to sleep and then have found a couple hours later she will take her bottle again. Not sure if the sucking or what hurts her....but she would scream and cry....so I let her sleep and then try again and it's all fine. Who knows with the little ones? It did scare me at first and I worried something was wrong. Hope that helps you.

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