confused need advice please

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My DD is 16 days old - was planning on BF alone, but after faffing up the latching on in the first few days, resulting in over hungry baby, bleeding nipples - i gave in and gave some formula and i expressed milk for 48 hours and fed via a bottle.

now we combine BF and bottle, she has up to 4 bottles a day, of 3 floz, and at night time this seems the only way to settle and satisfy her... is this doing any damage?

I was so intent on BF when i was PG, but now I am fed up with it, I sort of want to stop, any advice ???

Have you seen a breast feeding counsellor to help get breast feeding established. My milk never came so for 2 weeks I mixed fed and then gave up because DD was only satisfied by bottle. I gave up BF because non of the proffesionals around me recognised why I under supplied and no milk came in. I like you was adamanent that I wanted to BF exclusively. 10 weeks down the line I'm happy with my decision. However I was devasted for a few weeks. I tried restarting to know avail. I think in the end the decision is totally up to you and I was fortunate that DH was supportive whatever my decision. My advise is see a breast feeding counsellor first to check latch etc and get more advice until your sure. When I stopped I got a couple of bouts of mastitus but my GP was great and saw me straight away each time. I guess what I want to say is get some advice re BF and if you still feel it's not right for you then you can stop.