My little boy is 7 weeks old and spent his first 3 weeks in SCBU having had severe oxygen deprivation at birth. He is now healthy and doing well (although no one knows what the long term effects will be and we just have to watch and wait ) He was fed by NGT for most of the time he was in hospital but we got him bottle feeding (EBM) just before bring him home. He is now guzzling his milk from the bottles and can't seem to get enough. He had all EBM for the first four weeks and is now on a mixture of that and formula as I simply don't have time to express enough milk to give him all EBM while also taking care of him. Anyway I wondered if there is any chance now of getting him breastfeeding. I manage occasionaaly to get him to have a lick at my nipple or a tiny suck on the very end of the nipple but that is about it, and he tends to arch his back away from it so it is really hard to get him on without forcing him, which is obviously not conducive to him sucking. The community nurse told me to try and put him on before his feeds, but he is usually so furious when he is hungry that doing that just frustrates him and so he screams and pushes himself away. I don't really think that he is going to be able to learn to do it at this stage so maybe I should just keep on with the bottles, but wanted to see if anyone has any advice before I give up.