Sad Baby Feature: Sad Baby takes your Questions

Today's question is from JS in Kentucky,

Dear Sad Baby,
My 10 mos old son refuses to take a bottle.  Can you give us any insight or help?
JS

Sad Baby Says:

Thanks so much for your letter JS.  It is quite lonely being the only human prisoner here, so I welcome all correspondence.

The best reason to refuse a bottle is willful disobedience.  I fully condone your son's show of solidarity with my plight and I hope he can stay strong.That being said, I myself drink from a bottle, but I do have certain prerequisites which must be met to ensure that I will comply with forced feeding.  I will not take a bottle from my mom- that's ridiculous.She is always awake and full of perfectly good milk. Only the authority called daddy gets away with feeding me a bottle. Second, it must be dark.  It is a personal defeat to be forced to drink from an inanimate vessel, and I wouldn't want anyone to see me in the act.Thirdly, I don't care how cold it is, but it cannot be too warm.  The interaction is already unauthentic, laboring to get the temperature to reflect mothers milk just reinforces the synthetic pretense.

I hope that helps.

Yours in constant sorrow
-Sad Baby