7 month old suddenly not latching at all

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DD has been EBF since birth and has always been brilliant. In the last month, since she started on solids, she has fed less, which I expected. However, in the last 2 weeks she has fed less and less and now is not latching on. She pushes her hand against me so her head is pushed backwards and just chomps on my nipple. I have tried holding her hand, but she arches her back instead. It is beginning to make me sore and I know she's not getting any milk.

I have been expressing and feeding her via a cup, which she will drink from enthusiastically, but at night, she still likes to suckle back to sleep and I'm not ready for her to stop feeding yet.

Is this because of teething or does she just not want to breastfeed anymore?

Is there anything I can do about this?

She is way to young to self wean, that won't normally happen until at lest 18 months. Sounds more like a nursing strick, which could be related to teething or starting solids. You wouldn't normally see much in the way of dropping feeds at this age either as solids is supposed to be in addition to milk at first not a replacement. Are you offering milk before solids still?.

Have a read on kellymom website under nursing strick and see if it fits. There are also lots of goods tips on there to, to help get them feeding more.

I second teething pain, are they also very dribbly? With mine i gave a dose of calpol quarter of an hour before a feed which seemed to help, but I wouldn't take it as a weaning sign.

By that I don't mean dosing up before every feed, just to see if the teething could be the explanation

Reflux? Arching back reason why I say