I DESPERATELY need help

A little bit of a back story (you can skip to *** if you don’t care)

My daughter is 6 months old and has been EBF. I’ve tried to pump and give her bottles, and she’s been able to take it 3 times total… with my sister feeding her… but it was a STRUGGLE. Huge struggle.

She had a major lip tie, which NO ONE checked or informed me to check. I literally saw a TikTok video and was like hmm… my baby does this too? So I checked… and wtf. There it was.

Anyway we got it corrected and she’s fully healed, so my pediatrician said we should try bottles again because she probably wasn’t able to latch correctly to a bottle, and now she will be able to.

The past 6 months have been so SO hard on me. I’ve been dealing with Mastitis, sleep deprivation from frequent feedings (30-45 min stretches) and depression. Also dealing with her acid reflux, latch issues, never full to satisfaction, I mean the list goes on. It’s been so hard on me.

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My husband and I are finally able to go out of town for a night after Christmas. I’ve been trying to do the whole bottle thing again… and she does NOT know what to do. She chews on it, can’t place her tongue correctly, she’s confused, and after a while she gets so frustrated and will just refuse it. She doesn’t understand that a bottle can also be a source of food. Which I understand.

I’ve tried every bottle, nipple size, temperatures, before nursing, after nursing, even a damn sipppie cup (which worked the best btw we got her to take 1 oz that way)

I really need help. I need a night off. I need rest. I need help. I really need help.

Please help me.

Send me all the advice you have to help me to get her to take a bottle.