Baby refused bottle feeding

Our baby was delivered at a hospital that encourages breastfeeding. Right from the moment the baby was born, he was brought to his mother after he was cleaned up. This helped to develop a bonding between the mother and the baby. The baby was encouraged to suck the breast right from the start. Amazingly, the baby has an inborn talent of sucking the breast.

Breastfeeding requires skills and perseverance. It was not easy to get the baby to latch on properly. When the baby could not latch on properly, he would struggle and cry. A lot of perseverance  was need to succeed in breastfeeding. After many attempts and weeks of practice, the baby suck well but still occasionally, he refused to suck from a particular breast. He seems to have preferences. But perseverance paid off. He was fully on breast milk.

After two months of maternity leave, my wife has to go back to work. So we have to stock up bottles of breast milk for the baby when my wife was at  work. The expressed milk was put into freezer and thaw by soaking it in warm water before giving it to the baby using milk bottles.

Nightmares began when the baby refused to drink the milk from the bottle.  We tried so many kind of teats and bottles but he rejected all of them. He would rather go hungry without the milk for the whole day. After a few days of refusing bottle feeding, he was dehydrated and his urine turned pinkish in colour. The pinkish colour was due to the uric acid crystals in the urine. A sign of dehydration.

Finally, a friend recommended the Mother Care milk bottle with Nuby teats which feels like and shape like a mother’s breast. We bought a set of two bottles which cost more than any other normal bottles in the market. Amazingly, our baby liked it and began to drink well. What a relief and it was definitely a money well spent and our problem was solved. And he is still drinking from the Mother Care bottles now at six months old.

For those who faced similar problems with their baby, try Mother Care bottles with Nuby teats. It is worth paying for.

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