My 5 month old has, as of about 9am yesterday, gone on some kind of boob strike. He is EBF, bar the occasional bottle when I've had to be away for more than 3 hours. He did have 2 bottles last Wednesday when I went to my work Christmas party (the longest I've been away from him) but was straight back on boob when I got home, and fed like a champ on Thursday and all Friday night into Saturday morning. It was just when he woke on Saturday morning that he started refusing boob, seemingly out of nowhere.
He is showing signs of teething and has been a bit congested at night for several days. I've read these can impact BF but these were true before Saturday too. He's is great form. When he wouldn't feed yesterday I resorted to expressing his feed and giving that via bottle which he took no problem. At his next feed I gave him a bit of bottle and then swapped him to boob which worked. We have had varying degreess of success with this approach since then.
I had hoped he'd be okay for night feeds when he mostly stays asleep but he still refused boob at first. I really don't want the bottle to become a crutch. Has anyone been through his or have any advice? Thanks a mil.