How do I get my ten month old to take a bottle of formula???

Question

My daughter has been exclusively breastfed until now. Now she is nearing the age where I’d like her to be weaned off of breastmilk (11-12 months) I am wanting to start transitioning her to formula for her day feeds, so that when the time comes to cut out breastmilk altogether it’s not such a huge shock as she will already know the taste of formula.
I’m not sure which she hates, bottle or formula, or if it’s both. She won’t take anything from a bottle unless it’s water, she won’t drink expressed breastmilk and she won’t drink formula. I’ve tried several different teat shapes and a couple different formulas and none seem to work.
Does anybody have any tips on how to get her drinking formula from a bottle? Or am I just going to have to deny her breastmilk to the point that she takes a bottle of formula because she’s so hungry? ):

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At this point, I wouldn't introduce a bottle at all because that's one more thing to wean her from. If she's not showing interest in the bottle, try different sippy cups and see if you can get her to take some pumped breastmilk from a cup. Then if you really want her to have formula, you can mix it half and half with pumped breastmilk to make the transition easier on her tummy. You can also talk to her doctor to see if you can start introducing whole milk, and maybe skip the formula altogether.

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formula is a horrible taste and breast milk is sweet it's the formula . why don't u pump as put it in a bottle instead of formula? Or she she's so close to being able to drink milk just use milk? this what id do so tomake the transition easier or at least till she's good with a bottle . because 2 new things can overwhelm and possibly cause an aversion.  good luck

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my daughter never took to bottles either so when she turned one we went straight to sippy cups or regular cups. she did well with the ones with straws. good luck.

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The only thing that kind of worked for my almost 2 year old who now asks for a boob is a nuk bottle and mommy not around! I felt like she would almost starve herself as she wouldn’t take formula. Good luck weaning it’s not easy.

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Is she eating table food well?  My son gave up bottles at 9/10 months too.  He never took bottles well.  He was good at eating table food, so it wasn’t as big of a deal as a kid who primarily wants milk.

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Well I would just ride it out for a few more weeks and just wean her off at 1 year and skip formula all together. If she wants milk by then, she can have it in a cup. If not, she can get her calcium from other sources as she doesn’t really “need” milk per se.

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I'm sorry I wrote my comment in the wrong section  (reply to Ali). !! 😮

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Talk to your pediatrician, but at her age he might be able to skip formula altogether, since at 1 babies can have a form of milk.

How do I get my ten month old to take a bottle of formula???

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