My first son was an easy baby. He slept through the night from 4 months old, he never had separation anxiety and though he was breastfed, he took a bottle from the first time I tried with him and never had any kind of nipple confusion at all.

My second son hasn't been so easy. I had quite a few breastfeeding problems early on as he had an undetected tongue tie. It was hard enough to get him to have a feed from me let alone a bottle. I tried a few times with an Advent bottle, but he just cried.

Once his tongue tie was fixed, I started trying different bottles. My first son loved the Playtex nurser and it's the bottle my lactation consultant recommended for my second son. He wouldn't take it. I tried different Playtex nipples other than the flat-topped one. Nothing, but crying.

Then I tried the Tommy Tippee Closer to Nature bottle. He didn't cry, but he wouldn't suck from it either. He'd chew on it for a while, then would try and push it out of his mouth with his tongue. I was encouraged to keep trying with it because he didn't cry.

I tried the bottle several times and wasted many ounces of precious breastmilk and in the end the only way I could really get him to take milk from it was to spray it into his mouth. That worked, but it wasn't going to make leaving him with a babysitter any easier.

Then I read about the Adiri breastbottle. I'd read very mixed reviews about it. It seemed that everyone who tried was someone whose babies wouldn't take a bottle. Half of them had success with the Adiri, half didn't. I'm an optimistic type, so I decided to give it a go.

The main difference as far as the baby is concerned is that the actual nipple bit isn't long huge and hard like most other bottles. My son would sometimes gag when I tried him with normal bottles, with the Adiri, he took it immediately and started to suck. I couldn't believe it. He still played with it a bit, but in between playing he'd actually drink.from it.

It's easy to clean which is a plus, but as you need to put the bottle upside down to fill it I've found that it can be a bit leaky if you don't put the filling top on just right. I'm sure with practice I'll get that down pat.

I'm hoping that he keeps it up with this bottle so that I can leave him for more than an hour and a half with someone else soon. I'd love to go out for dinner with just my husband soon.

If it doesn't work, what other bottles should I try?