10 week old refusing breast

[Happydays54321]

Hi all

hoping someone can give me some advice as I’m stressing out with this.

I breastfeed my 10 week old and she also takes expresses milk in a bottle so dad can help out in the night.

I’m going through some post partum health issues which caused me to be hospitalised last weekend meaning dad had to give more bottles of expressed milk. When she came to visit me one day she suddenly began refusing breast and screaming when she came near them.
on advice from breastfeeding network I kept pumping as I was already doing and when I got home we done skin to skin and got back on track.

over a week later she suddenly is doing the same out of the blue and I don’t know why. I’m nolonger on any medication and nothing has changed. I had to give her expressed milk in a bottle which she guzzled down.

shes also been a bit fussy at the boob recently when she is feeding off me.

it's really getting me down and I wondered if anyone has been through similar and what they did as I’m not ready to stop yet 😢

Unfortunately bottles are much less work so babies tend to go off the boob when they realise this! You could look into paced feeding, but your partner may not be so keen in the early hours!

Stop bottle feeding if you want to carry on Brest feeding and spend the day in bed feeding and don’t give in and give her a bottle if she refuses the breast! Let her scream if you have to it won’t hurt her and you need to get back on track

Unfortunately my health issues leave me in horrific pain some nights making it impossible to pick her up let alone breastfeed her so we have no option but to give her the bottle those times.

will spend as much time in bed as possible with her when my older child is it school thanks

He’s back working away now so it’s just me on the nights , she’d fed off one side last night so just need to persevere 🤞🏼 thank you