Problems with going to the bottle from breast...Help! please

[jcarlisle20]

I have to start back up to work next Monday and I have offered/introduced the bottle to my 5 week old baby a couple of times while I was away running errands but now she doesn't like to take the bottle and throws a fit. I'm worried she will not do great while I'm away and start losing weight. I've tried the Avent bottles and the playtex curved bottles..any suggestions to get my baby to use the bottles while I"m away. I'll continue to nurse her when I'm home with her but while I'm at work I have to pump. Please help!

[debbie_page]

Some babies just won't eat while mom is away and make up for it at night. The caretaker could spoon feed her. Do a trial run this weekend and let someone else feed her during your typical working hours and you pump and see what happens.

[jcarlisle20]

I don't know if she could hold out for 12 hours since I work from 6 in the morning and won't get home til about 5 pm...should I just continue letting someone else try to bottle feed her since the daycare that she'll go to will be bottle feeding her.

[debbie_page]

Sometimes using a nipple shield for one or two feedings will get a baby to take a bottle.