My son is 1 this week and I have been expressing and bottle feeding for the last few weeks as he is teething (endlessly apparently) and began to bit me fairly consistently when feeding him. I tried all the techniques I have heard of for avoiding biting, but none of them seemed to do the trick, but he is happy taking bottles and I'm also supplementing with soya milk (as he is on a lactose free diet) which seems to be going down very well.
The thing is, I'm in two minds about trying to reintroduce breast feeding - one the one hand, it would be kind of nice but on the other it seems a bit of a backward step considering he has shown no signs of missing it, is eating three good meals a day and I don't feel the 'need' to get that closeness back. One thing is for sure - expressing is doing my head in. It's time consuming, inconvenient and is essentially doubling up the time it takes to give him milk, but I would gladly do it if I thought the benefits to him outweighed the faff to me!
Any advice would be warmly welcomed - I keep vacillating and my husband is marvellously supportive but thinks it's up to me (which is nice, but not helpful).