........ladies I need your help/advice/support. My 6wk old son (my youngest of three) left my nipples in a real mess, he was an extreme sucker, coupled with thrush/mastitis/bacterial infections. Last week i made the decision to start expressing to try to let my nipples heal. The first few days were great he took expressed breast from bottle and some breast feeds aswell. But a week on he's decided bottles no more and either won't suckle at all or sucks passively but only manages about 1oz in half hour. My decision should I switch to bottles completely in hope he caves in? I'm finding this really hard; trying to be pragmatic but hating seeing him struggling with the bottle when my boobs are leaking all over the place. I fed number 1/2 exclusively breast so know how good it can be just that this time things have went wrong and I don't know what to do for best. I would like to combine breast and bottle but is it fairer to make a complete change to bottle just now? We are using Nuk bottles, and he seems to like the latex teats the best but not taking much milk at all so any bottle/teat advice would be good also.