Hello everyone need some advice here, my son is 6 months and was exclusively breast fed we tried everything from 4 months to get him to take a bottle with breast milk. Only from yesterday he started taking the bottle the health visitor advised us to leave him overnight with someone strong willed with the bottles as a last resort if he really was refusing. Well one night with my mum done the trick he has now been taking full feeds from it!
We picked him up this morning and he has been offered his feeds from it all day and accepted I usually breast feed him to sleep but have just successfully bottle fed him to sleep (through my tears) so I know if we wanted to have a night off or anything he would be fine overnight.
My question is does this mean that breast feeding over for us? I’m emotional a bout it but just want the best for him I always said I’d do both but is that really doable? I feel I’m going to undo his progress and he will start refusing again? I am sad to think yesterday may have been his last ever breast feed and I didn’t even know it. It seems to have hit me hard tonight. What’s your own experience and advice is it possible to do both?