Will my breastfeeding journey be over?

[BumblebeeStar]

I am due to go on a hen weekend in a few weeks. I will be away from early Saturday morning until late Sunday night, just a 1 hour flight away. My baby will be 8 weeks old and is exclusively breastfed. He does spend the occasional afternoon away from me and will happily take a bottle of either formula or expressed breast milk when I'm not arround, although the formula does seem to give him a sore tummy, so working on building up a stash for him to have only expressed milk when I'm away.
Is this likely to be the end of our breastfeeding journey? Obviously I'll express when away, and I'm not worried about my supply as I generally over produce and wouldn't expect too much of a decline in 2 days. My main concern is that he develops a bottle preference and refuses breast when I come back. I could cancel the but have spent around £500 on the trip and it is my sisters hen weekend so I'd feel terrible not going. Unfortunately husband bringing him to stay nearby isn't an option has he wouldn't have a passport on time.
Has anyone left a baby so young and managed to carry on breast feeding? Is 8 weeks too young to leave for a weekend?

Hope you have fun. When you're away, I would recommend pumping as often as a mum exclusively pumping full time would be (and I did for my eldest) at 8 weeks, ie every 3-4 hours including at night, to ensure your supply.
Make sure your husband knows to pace feed with the bottle to reduce the risk of flow preference developing. Baby sitting 45deg upright or more, let him latch onto teat instead of putting it in his mouth, mimic flow of breast milk ie none at first then fast flow then ease off then baby sucks but gets nothing again for a few mins then fast flow, like the pattern of letdowns is.

So I did go away and had a great time. Managed to pump every 5-6 hours so slightly less than he'd feed but my supply doesn't seem to have been affected. Came home on Sunday night and he's fed as normal since my return. Dad also survived.
Win win!

Wonderful! What a great update!

Edit as a see it’s an old post.

Great news OP! Glad had a good time and hope dad loved his 1:1 with bubba xx