Tips for breast fed babies taking bottles?

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Baby is 5 weeks, we were told to wait between 4-6 weeks to start pumping and bottle feeding.
Trying to start now and baby isn’t taking to bottle. Any tips that worked for you??? I’ve googled everything 😩 thank you!!

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From experience and some research there's no reason to wait to introduce a bottle as nipple confusion is very very rare! My 3rd I waited and she would not take a bottle no matter what now with my 4th I bf and bottle fed right away she will take bottles from different brands, bf no problem and takes a binky

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I’m in the same boat!!

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With both my kids I started very early. Just to introduce bottle so that I could get a break sometimes. Like go grocery shopping lol. My son is 9wks and every now and then he gets confused (dr said this not me) and will refuse to breastfeed for a couple minutes and it can be very frustrating but we get through it. We use Playtex ventaire anti-colic anti-reflux bottle and he seems to love them and my daughter did too and she never had confusion.

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Have you had any luck?? I went back to work and my daughter refuses a bottle for 8 hours when I’m gone. Will only breastfeed still. It’s so stressful

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Try different bottles, try to find one with a bottle nipple similar to your nipple in size and make sure is kinda soft so it's more similar to breast.
I introduce a bottle at almost 2 weeks and he has no problem with them, but i've notice that the one whose bottle nipple is bigger and harder he does not like. 
Also maybe try at the begining one that leaks (not much, just a drop from time to time) so baby knows milk is getting out of there.

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My baby likes the mam bottles. I've tried dr brown and it's like he doesn't get a good latch and swallow a bunch of air. He will do tommee tippee and simply natural (nuk) but the mam is the best one for him. He still gets some air (because he is a chugger but the bottle also flows a little faster than I do normally unless it's a let down lol) but it is anti colic. They have short fat squarish nipples so idk if thats it but it works best for him.

Tips for breast fed babies taking bottles?

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