When you can’t be with your baby, you may need them to take a bottle. If you’re returning to work or school, and your baby’s caregiver requires bottles, it is super stressful when your baby refuses to take a bottle.

Ideally, we will work together to troubleshoot exactly why baby is refusing a bottle, talk about the steps baby needs to take for bottle feeding, and how they are different from breastfeeding. We will address any oral defensiveness or other issues that may cause your baby to reject the bottle. We will develop a customized training plan to help baby accept a bottle and provide recommendations for bottles/nipples that would work best for your unique baby, AND MORE!

Generally, a bottle refusal consult takes about 60 to 90 minutes.

Though each bottle refusal journey is quite unique, we will generally discuss:

• breastfeeding history

• bottle feeding history

• baby’s health and wellness history

After discussing all your info, I will perform an oral assessment to see what’s going on inside baby’s mouth that might affect bottle feeding. I will explain what I am looking for and how your baby’s response to these different exercises/assessments shows us information relevant to bottle feeding.

We will then do a “bottle trial”, which based on your history and baby’s oral anatomy and response to oral stimuli, I will recommend a bottle/nipple that’s appropriate for your unique baby and provide you with that bottle to try with your baby (I will have several sanitized options, but you may need to work with a bottle that is different than the recommended one until you can order the appropriate bottle)

I will then give you exercises (these are really fun games to play with your baby!) to help to train them to do the things that are needed to accept a bottle.

We will then have up to THREE WEEKS of follow-up via phone, text, or email to be sure you’re making progress!

In-home: $225

Travel fee: $30 if over 30-minutes travel time

Virtual: $200