Liz, I just have a funny anecdote for your situation. 

When my second daughter was born (in 1988) our oldest was only 26 months 
old. One of S's grandmothers bought her a baby doll, with the expected bottle, 
when the Baby B was about a month old. S had only seen B nurse, we were 
heavily involved in LLL, and I did not have a bottle in the house. 

My dh and I opened the package with the doll. Sarah, (the two year old) took 
the babydoll out of the box, lifted her shirt and nursed her. A few minutes 
later, as toddlers do, she was examining the contents of the box, she wrapped 
the baby in the blanket, then, completely undressed the doll and 
then.......picked up the bottle. 

I wondered what she might do. She aimed the bottle at the doll's face, and 
then calmly, placed the "nipple" of the plastic bottle into the doll's 
nostril!!!! "Hew, bebe, now you can breeve." (Here baby, now you can 
breathe.) She thought it was a nose syringe! (She had seen us use one with 
her "slightly juicy" sister, Becca, a C Birth baby.) 

My husband and I got a good laugh out of that. Rather than have to take the 
bottle away (which I was afraid might stifle curiosity and creative play) Sarah 
herself found a breastfeeding friendly use for it. 

Maybe you could present the bottles as nose syringes to your little one. :) 

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