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Moving onto the Bottle

If you have been exclusively breastfeeding until your baby is a few months old and want to swap to, or introduce, a bottle to get a bit of freedom, then you will need some help. It can prove a very difficult transition but, having weaned several babies off the breast and onto the bottle so that mum/mom can return to work, I know the method that works.

However let me just say this: do not worry too much if you are trying to get your baby to take the bottle in order to return to work, as your nanny/staff at the nursery/childminder will wean your baby in a day, as you won't be there. Babies just take to it if they have to, and the staff/child carer will be used to it and won't find it a problem. I have done it several times with babies I've cared for both in a nursery and as a nanny, and it was no problem to me. You see I have never had any trouble getting the babies I've looked after to take the bottle in a very short space of time - usually a day or two, however this is because I was not the babies’ mother. When I tried to feed my own daughter with bottles myself after breastfeeding her for several months, she had great difficulty accepting it and I was frustrated that it wasn’t as easy as it had been in the past - because just like you and all the mothers of the babies I've cared for, I am her mummy/mommy ... I had the good stuff and she couldn't understand why I was not giving it to her. But then I tried a new approach, which worked almost immediately, and I wished I’d thought of it before.

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