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Parenting

20th Nov 2018

This dad’s nifty hack for giving his baby a bottle is pretty hilarious

A man's got to do what a man's got to do.

Trine Jensen-Burke

Where there’s a will…

As breastfeeding is very much a mum-and-baby thing, many fathers can struggle to get baby to take a bottle in mum’s absense. Heck, I even struggled myself to get my breastfed babies to want to take a bottle from me whenever I offered them one.

Breastfed babies, naturally, prefer human nipples, and often even have a favourite boob or will only eat from certain engles. Luckily, there are plenty of great bottles on the market today where the teeth very much mimicks an actual nipple.

Taking it even further in order to get his baby daughter to drink from a bottle, New York dad Anthony Favors recently came up with this clever hack that we bet many dads wish they had thought of too. Just take a look:

You gotta do what you gotta do, right?