This is quite a long story so sorry in advance! Just had so much advice from health visitors, midwifes, doctors and lactation consultants that I feel I just need some straight forward advice from people whove done it before.
Basically, my son is now 3 months old. Up until now we've gone through different phases of giving him expressed bm and direct from the breast. We were in a routine of bf during the day and expressed milk through the night but when I tried to switch to mostly bf he started having lots of green, dodgy nappies. I was told this was because he wasn't staying on long enough. At birth, we didn't have skin to skin straight away for several reasons and I was advised that giving him some formula would be better than nothing. That started off the whole bottle issue.
I have been told his latch is great and a lc has told me that there are no issues re tongue tie. I think he's probably just getting bored and thinking give me the bottle when he has to work for high fat milk. I've tried breast compressions etc but once he's decided he's not interested the game is a bogey. I don't want to let him go hungry and everything I read suggests that is not the thing to do but I feel continually giving him the bottle when he's fed up is keeping us stuck in this cycle. I'd like to get back to half and half (Half expressed /half bf) but I just don't know if it will ever be possible. Has anybody else had success with breast feeding after the 3 month point or is it pretty much set in stone at this point?
Thanks for reading my very long post!