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

Best money I have ever spent! It requires a lot of strength and willpower to follow the rules, but the reviews speak for themselves that this works! Couldn’t believe after struggling for 3 months, after 2 weeks we had the aversion under control. Highly recommend

I cannot thank this book enough. I used the tips in this and say results from day 1

Nobody talks about this, but yes, I would say many many babies with aversions are misdiagnosed, just like mine. I can't say this book helped me heal my baby's aversion completely since my baby has a bottle, breastfeeding and solid food aversion and is a year old. This book recommends that while curing the bottle aversion, the baby be only bottle fed and no breastfeeding at all. This was not something I wanted to do. HOWEVER, the book did provide tremendous insight about how aversions are developed, what enforces an aversion and what methods are used to cure the bottle feeding aversion. It also helped me identify possible reasons why my baby was off the growth charts and not growing and what signs to identify to know whether my baby is well fed or not. I definitely see some significant changes for the better when following some of the ideas. I wish there would be a solution for solving all three aversions: solids, breastfeeding and bottles at once. Were still not fully there yet. Kudos to Rowena! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experiences with the world and helping so many moms out there!

To start I am a physician and so is my husband. We have never heard of pressure feeding. This was our second baby and we thought we knew what we were doing. Our baby started being more and more difficult to feed starting at 1.5 months. Before this he was downing 3.75 oz in minutes. He got an upper respiratory infection and then suddenly he started refusing to drink as much and each week got worse and worse. We quickly figured out that he would only drink if he was the perfect shade of sleepy. However this became more and more difficult as with each week he was becoming more aware and awake. Baby kept crying like he was being punished every time we fed him. It was so miserable for both of us….and we had no answers. Pediatrician was not concerned because he was meeting the growth curves and milestones but only because we spent every waking minute feeding the baby. He took 90 min to finish a 4oz bottle and would only drink sleeping. I was desperate and got this book even though I was extremely skeptical. Every page described exactly what we had been going through for the past 3 months. We started following the plan 1 week ago and our baby is now feeding completely awake and normal volumes(2-5oz) and no more crying. He is confident and enjoying his bottles. It was scary because the first few days the volumes he took in were extremely low….as low as 12.5oz one day. So many dry diapers. Stick to the plan and do not go back to old habits. This book changed our lives! I cannot express my gratitude to the author through words. Thank you thank you thank you.

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 wish I had known about this book earlier, still it helped me so much. I was making every single mistake she wrote on this book, I felt like she was watching me as she wrote it. The book fixed my problem within 2 days. I am not exaggerating. Am grateful. Thank you!

The advice and recommendation in this book had a great positive impact on our family. We went from tears over our 6 month old babys feeding to pride in her process and our ability to care for her in the space of about a week. We also saved ourselves from having to pay for support from specialist. The advice is practical and easy to follow from an intellectual perspective. However it is a stressful jump into the unknown to change your approach to allowing baby to manage there own milk intake not pressuring them, and stop the workarounds like sleep feeding and solids while baby adjusts and learns to feed normally. If you think your baby has a feeding aversion this book is the Bible for you. All the best to people going through this.