Breastfeeding refusal 8 weeks- help

[JackieDW]

Hi all

My DD is 8 weeks old. We have been EBF since birth and she was full term and a good weight. I struggled a bit with feeding to begin with as LO didn’t open mouth very far but we got there and feeding seemed to be going well.
For 2 weeks she wasn’t very well with a cold and lost her appetite and ability to feed a little. HV check at 7 weeks showed she had gone from 75% to 25%. So advised to feed more often.
To help this I have been expressing one bottle a night for OH to feed her. Prior to this she had been sleeping from 8/9-3/4 so missing one feed.
Yesterday LO was quite unsettled and screamed at times when put to the breast. I offered her the breast more than normal and regularly throughout the day as I was worried about the weigh in today. Last night OH couldn’t get up to feed so I did the feed. LO screamed for 25 minutes and I ended up giving her the bottle.
Is this the end of my breastfeeding journey? I really don’t want it to be. Any advice on how to get her to take the breast again?
Has anyone else had anything like this happen?
I ended up really upset and having a bit of a melt down.

Hi OP, Just bumping this for you in the hope that someone comes along with some helpful advice soon. x

Hi OP I have a 10 week old and at 8 weeks she had a massive growth spurt and was a nightmare on the boob for a couple of days. I very nearly gave up as my nipples were so sore again and she was bobbing her head coming on and off angry. After a couple of days she went back to her normal self feeding well. I can only assume it was down to the growth spurt and it also coincided with her becoming more smiley and aware of things involved with a developmental leap (have you looked at the wonder weeks). FWIW I have given one bottle a day in the evening (well my partner has!) of either expressed milk or formula since day 1 partly due to weight loss/jaundice and so I could have a break and this hasn’t effected her ability to go between bottle and breast. It will be worth persevering through for a couple of days to see if it’s growth spurt/developmental related- I gritted my teeth lots of cuddles/feeding and nipple cream. Sending