Everything seems a bit of a mess today. Two or three nights ago, dd refused her bottle of ebm from dh. I feed her on demand all day/night, but I express first thing in the morning and he offers her a bottle around 10pm. In the end, practically hissing and spitting, shetook a couple of oz, but i had to settle her by bfing. then during the night she woke once as normal. The next morning I could only express 3oz (I try not to feed her from one side during the night as then I can usually express around 5oz in the morning. But I'd had to offer her that side.)
That night she refused to take any ebm from dh, but then took it from me (as in, let me bottle feed her). She woke once during the night as normal.
I expressed 4oz that morning. For most of that day she slept (usually has a couple of good alert periods) that night dh and I decided to offer formula as I have a course saturday and I havent managed to get a store of ebm. as shes not happy taking a bottle, Id rather she was offered ebm all day than formula which she isnt used too.
Again, I had to give her it, but shed fed nonstop until 10pm, then had 3oz of formula. She woke during the night once.
Yesterday she slept all day again. _For the first time I didnt express, didnt have the time. I tried feeding her all evening, (she cluster feeds a lot) she was fretful and didnt appear satisfied. eventuallyy dh took her off me at 10pm offered her formula she took 5oz, threw up 1oz, and slept until 6am.
So obviously I missed a night feed, aso I woke up hoping to express a decent amount and struggled to get 2oz. Shes been feeding almost constantly this morning and seems unsatisfied again.
Is it normal to have a few rubbish days?
In an ideal world I'd be able to express enough to give her a bottle at night and freeze some but it seems I cant. I'm worried if I dont freeze what I express she might be really unhappy Saturday... but I don't want her to have formula.