14 + 5 week old refusing breast in early evenings

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Can anyone help me? My 14 + 5 day old is now refusing the breast around 5pm and 8pm feeds. He will take it during night time and early morning feeds (though i've noticed that he doesn't feed for as long as he used to) but it goes pearshaped after that, he will cry and refuse to latch on. Tonight i gave him ebm around 8pm and he happily took that so i know that he is hungry. He also can't sleep between 5pm until i give him another feed around 10pm at which stage he will breastfeed again. I have tried to feed him in a quiet room with no distractions but that still doesn't help, i think he is teething at the moment but not sure if this would have such an effect and if so why it is only the early evening feeds? I'm really worried about my supply going down and don't want to have to express feeds every day if i possible.

please help with any suggestions - this has been going on for a few days now

Perhaps he has just learned to feed faster? In My humble unexpert opinion (BF ds for 1 year and still feeding dd at 15 months) is that your supply should be fine as long as you feed him only bm when he demands it. I never bothered expressing. He will eat if he is hungry??

My ds has been like this off and on - he has had expressed milk, and then formula from 3 mo, and went through a stage of preferring the bottle, and wouldn't let me bf at all the day - he was teething too, and also gets very windy when bf, and always stops half way through, arching back and screaming, so I guess bottle was more comfortable for him. I just went with it, and bf when he let me (which was quite a lot at night at this stage) and bottle fed the other times - now he has reached 6 mo and s mostly bf, but has 2 or 3 bottles of formula, and is fine with both. I feel happy with this, as we are still bf, and I;m glad I didn't stop when I felt he was rejecting me, as he did come round again. Hope that helps.