Some mothers consider that the small bottle, as well as a pacifier is capable to complicate breastfeeding and to transfer the kid from a small bottle again on a breast will be problematic. But sometimes arise also the return situations when it is necessary to teach the kid are from a small bottle, for example, if mom needs to leave at several o'clock a day in the nearest future. To endure to the kid this period and to get used to changes some advice will help.
Instruction
1. Do not insist and do not become angry: the refusal of the kid to eat from a small bottle is not at all bad behavior or desire to attract attention. Just it does not like a new way of feeding. In the form the pacifier, perhaps, also reminds a nipple, but it is not enough. Since the birth the child gets used to proximity with you during feeding, and no small bottle can replace to it feelings which he feels, being at your breast.
2. To help the child to learn to eat from a small bottle, divide these two processes – chest feeding and feeding from a pacifier. For example, you nurse lying on a sofa, and for feeding from a small bottle settle in a chair. Take the kid on hands so that he could see you. During feeding embrace it, talk, and then food from a small bottle will give you the chance for emotional communication too.
3. As a rule, the transition period from breastfeeding to a small bottle is 1-2 days, but can be required by some kids also several weeks. In order that process of an innovation took place successfully, the child has to be in good mood. Do not offer it a small bottle after or before going to bed. Better make it in the afternoon. Do not wait until he gets hungry, hoping that he will begin with pleasure is from a small bottle. Perhaps, you receive the return reaction – the child will be capricious and will not estimate a new way of feeding at all.
4. If you offered the kid a small bottle, and he flatly refused, try to distract him – take on hands, wear about the room, then repeat attempt. If now it did not turn out, wait several minutes and give him a breast. Be not upset, the similar behavior of the kid is absolutely normal. During the following feeding make the next attempt. The new way of feeding will be more successful if dad or the child's grandmother gets down to business.
5. If the kid is less than 6 months old and he only eats milk, instead of a small bottle it is possible to use a spoon or a cup. Of course, such ways of feeding more difficult and it is necessary to carry out them extremely accurately.
6. After 6-7 months when the diet of the child becomes more and more various, you can do in general without small bottle, and feed him from a spoon, and milk from a feeder or a small bottle with a wide tubule instead of a pacifier.