Bottle feeding an EBF baby

April • Austin💙 2/4/20 & Quinn🎀 10/3/21

Ok... mama needs help! My babe is 3 months, exclusively breastfed mostly because I’ve just been home with maternity leave turning into working from home because of COVID. I have only intended to breastfeed for 6 months tops.

Anyways. He’s taken a bottle a total of 4 times. Twice with dr browns from my husband when he was probably 5 weeks old. With the anticipation of me returning to the office sometime this month depending on state mandates, we decided to re-introduce a bottle. He’d no longer take the dr browns so I tried a Mam that was sent to me as a sample. He took it almost no problem, twice. Hooray! I ordered more Mam bottles. Every time since he screams bloody murder and absolutely will not take a bottle anymore.

He cries as soon as I cradle him almost like in anticipation. So my two questions are -

What position do you bottle feed your breastfed baby? Do you try to make it similar to how you nurse them?

What bottle brand worked for you? I know all baby’s are so different, but just curious.

Thanks in advance!!!

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