Just Say No

Finnbar has started a new campaign against the bottle. Just say no to artificial nipples! From week 2, Finn has gotten a bottle of expressed breast milk in the evenings so that we could mix his antibiotics in. Plus I was pumping to create a freezer stash. He did really well and didn't seem to care if his dinner came from the bottle or the breast. Then, we discovered the source of some of our troubles was thrush and I had to throw out my milk stores (very sad). Then we found out that Finn no longer had to be on antibiotics (awesome). This was right before Christmas and since we were going to Colorado, I decided not to cart along the pump and deal with the bottle while we were there. So, now that we have cleared up the thrush, I wanted to start to get a freezer stash going again, and to get Finn back into having a nightly bottle so that Sean could feed him and to potentially have a little more flexibility in the future in case I needed to be away or something. Well, the past two nights Finn has refused the bottle. Apparently, those couple of weeks without it in the routine really turned him off of it. I don't know if we need to try a different type of bottle, or if he is just a breast or nothing boy. Last night he cried everytime Sean tried to give him the bottle and we finally just gave up and I fed him. It is not a huge deal since I am not going back to work or anything, but it would be really nice if he would take a bottle on occasion.