For various reasons I’ve decided I need to stop breastfeeding - at least during the day, but I’d like to keep the bedtime/night breastfeeds if possible. The last couple of days I’ve been feeding my baby expressed milk in a bottle (I will eventually transition to formula) and she’s been taking them ok, if not drinking a huge amount. But when I’ve tried to breastfeed her at bedtime she gets upset - so I give her a bottle and she will drink a couple of ounces then go to sleep. She’ll then wake a couple of times in the night, breastfeed as normal and go back to sleep. I’m currently feeling a bit frantic because she hasn’t wanted her bottle this morning. I’m worried she will never really take to the bottle and I am inadvertently starving her. Am I making a huge mistake? Am I naive to think I can keep the cosy night breastfeeds? Do I need to just commit and go full on bottle? Even though I’m expressing I can feel the supply dropping already.
I dont know where to get advice about this. If anyone else has gone through this please tell me how and when it got easier!