Getting the baby to take the bottle. This is a problem that a lot of parents have had, but I'm not going to be able to offer you a solution today, because I just don't have one. This is a problem I've been having myself, and I just can't offer a solution when I haven't found one.

It's not like I haven't tried. I've done all the Internet research, but there's scarcely any common themes- if you ask twenty experienced parents how they handled this problem, you'll get twenty answers so different from each other as to provide no confidence. If everyone out there found a different solution, why would I ever assume that this particular solution will work for me?

The only pattern I've been able to find- and it's a plurality, not a majority of the answers out there- is that it might have something to do with finding the right bottle. A fair number of the parents who eventually solved this problem did it by just buying one new bottle after another until they found one their baby would take.

If there was any commonality to which bottle that ended up being, I would have some guidance, but every single successful parent swears by a different brand of bottle and derides all the others.

The only conclusion I can draw from this is that it's different for every baby, and that my only option is to do a crazy “bottle quest” and buy her as many new bottles as it takes in order to find one she actually likes. Or at least one she'll tolerate.

It's a daunting prospect!