Husbands attitude to breastfeeding

[Iamnotloobrushphobic]

I am breastfeeding our 6 month old. We started introducing solids last week but other than that I have been EBF the entire time. Baby won't take a bottle of any milk, even expressed breast milk. I like breastfeeding and find it saves me prepping bottles etc. I would like to leave baby some expressed milk and go to the gym a couple of times a week but I can't do that because he won't drink from a bottle and if I am out of his sight for more than 5 minutes he screams and gets very upset and won't calm down until I return and take him from my husband / other relative. So I happy to put my gym desires on hold for a while.

My husband however thinks that I should just go the gym and leave baby with him and that he will just get on with it (whilst baby screams until I return). DH has said "well you can't breastfeed forever you know" and "I want to look after the baby". I feel that this attitude is not very supportive. It seems like he wants me to stop breastfeeding sooner rather than later. He has tried giving expressed milk to baby and baby just screamed and gagged and refused the bottle. Expressing is fucking hard work and I am not doing it to then see my precious milk thrown away. Obviously this is not a LTB scenario, but how do I make the dinosaur see that our baby is fine to breastfeed for a good while yet and that milk will be his main source of nutrition for some time? It would be nice to feel that my husband fully supports me to breastfeed our son until he is at least a year old.

[Coconut0il]

It's definitely not the BF. I bf DS1 and am bf DS2, doing nothing different this time to last but DS1 was a laid back chap who would go to anyone and DS2 needs more reassurance and wants me a lot more.
It is getting easier now that DS2 is easier to distract with toys and playing, just keep doing what you are doing. My DP said something similar to me about DS2 just loving his Mommy lots, they just have different personalities.