Your Baby's Bottle-feeding Aversion: Reasons And Solutions

Before buying this book, I told my partner that if this works, I would be writing a review but words don't even do this book justice on how much it has helped us.Honestly, this book has saved our sanity. Our 5 month old son developed a bottle aversion at 2 months old after strict feeding instructions in regards to when he was born over a month prematurely. Due to his low weight, we were instructed that he had to have specific amounts to catch up, however, we were not informed when we could stop this - sadly this led to his bottle aversion. We absolutely dreaded feed times, he would scream in feeding position, refuse feeds entirely, scream at the sight of a bottle etc, however, between feeds, he was his bubbly happy little self.After endless doctors appointments and visits to a&e, we still had no help or any reason as to why this was happening. We stumbled across bottle aversions online and saw other peoples' stories and it resonated so much with us. This book was recommended on a thread and we bought it straight away after seeing the reviews.Our baby was just over 3 months old when we started the course, it was so difficult in the beginning, and there were ups and downs throughout and plenty of tears from myself and my partner, we stuck to it after hearing success stories, however, we did tweak it a bit to match our baby's needs, which became apparent through the course.After two weeks, his bottle aversion was pretty much gone, two weeks seems forever when you are going through it, but it is worth it for the time afterwards. Our baby boy is now nearly 6 months old and he happily takes his milk and lets us know with his actions when he is finished and he has been like this since we completed the course. We have had days where he doesn't drink well and we just have to tell ourselves that he will make up for it as he knows his own body.Another thing that made a huge difference was switching to DR Brown's narrow neck bottles. We were using the wider neck ones, however, the narrow neck bottles were super easy for our baby to latch onto and he actually wanted to keep the bottle in his mouth while feeding, the amounts he was having drastically increased when we made this switch too.It is important to read the entire book to make sure that the course is being done right, I speed read it in an entire evening and then folded pages to refer back to when needed.2024 edit: My son is now 2 years old and by having the basics of this book still ingrained in the back of my mind, I can confirm that he has grown into a great little eater too and has little to no fussy eating. I often get comments about how well he eats and honestly, I still thank this book.

Our daughter’s feeding aversion was really stressing us out, but Rowena’s method is so simple and worked within half a day. Now my daughter is having daily bottles!

I am in awe at just how amazing this book is. My baby has had bottle aversion for over a month or two and feeding times have been incredibly difficult and stressful. Screaming at the sight of a bottle and only feeding when distracted by YouTube followed by vomiting. We saw multiple HV/paediatricians/GPs to try help as our baby was refusing all feeds, dropping centiles and was incredibly stressed. We were told to keep doing what we were doing as no medical reason for it but it just wasn’t an option. We were all miserable. I was recommended this book and was dubious as I figured how could a book help but oh my god I was wrong!! I read it in one evening and I have NEVER found a book so eye opening and helpful. I instantly saw everything I was doing wrong to cause my baby’s aversion and recieved so much more of an understanding around feeding/weight/centiles. It has me even questioning if my baby ever had reflux or was it a bottle aversion all along from me not reading and respecting her cues. The method to break the aversion is tough from an anxiety perspective and we are only 2 days in but the difference already in my baby is CRAZY!! She’s is a different child, so much happier, guzzled certain bottles and pressure to feed and worry is totally off. Whatever you do BUY THIS BOOK. I cannot recommend it enough to anyone and everyone. Even if you don’t have a total bottle aversion it’s definitely worth a read for its insights on cues, weight and feeding guidance.

I said to my husband if this works I am writing a review (I never normally do!) but I cannot give this book enough stars! It has changed our lives. We were at breaking point with our baby who just would not feed. But after following the advice and the programme that Rowena sets out, we are aversion free. No more screaming baby every time we feed. Just lovely enjoyable relaxed feedings. If you suspect your baby has a bottle aversion, then you need this book. Stick to the golden rules and hopefully you will be aversion free too. Thank you Rowena and the Facebook support group.