Don't want to quit but...

[Whyriskit]

DS2, 8 months tomorrow, BF but has a bottle for dreamfeed and has done for months.
Feeds usually once at night, fine. Daytime feeds are awful, he latches on for literally a second, then off then on again. He's on solids, doing BLW, loves his food and from his nappies, he's obviously ingesting a fair amount. I know the majority of his calories still need to be milk, but he's really not keen at the moment.
Back to work in 8 weeks so was going to introduce a bottle for his mid day feed anyway, but part of me if wondering whether I'd just be better switching to formula completely. I don't want to stop, but he just doesn't seem interested. Help!

Whyriskit - some babies do go through a distractible phase at around 8-10 months (see here).

On going back to work it might be well possible to partially bf (morning/night or as suits you) and partially ff it that's what you want to do or your could do all ff or just send food/water with your DS to childcare if he is so good with his food now and feed morning/night. It really down to what works best for your family.

Try this info from kellymom.com it may or may not be useful.

Cross posts Truthsweet with more fab kellymom advice!

How often are you breast feeding during the day? It maybe that he is just not as hungry. I started to introduce a bottle during the day about 2 months before I went back to wk and was lucky in that my dd seemed happy with either! I suppose I wanted to cut down my supply a bit as didn't want to be feeling too full or worse having leaky boobs at work!!! I work in the community as a nurse so expressing at work would have been difficult.

However I was able to continue with the morning and evening/night feeds for another 3 months and although in hind sight I wish I had kept going a bit longer (dd was 11 months) it felt like the right time to stop.

Thanks for the help and advice. I think he is distracted by life and his older brother! And because he has taken to solids so well, he probably isn't so hungry - I've probably just got used to my snackmonster feeding every two hours!

I had exactly the same thing and was convinced DD was losing interest. I kept going but was a bit anxious about how much she was getting/my supply. In the end one day she was interested again and we're still going strong at 14 months.

My DS was horribly distractible starting at around 8 months. If we were out of the house he'd scream instead of feeding, even if he was hungry. As soon as he turned 11 months it stopped.