Was away for the weekend, me diving, DH looking after DD giving her the 2 feeds during the day and me bf her for 1st & last feed. Anyway that was the plan.
On all 3 days she refused to take any milk from the bottle (1st day was EBM the others formula.) On Sunday I was out all day and she was content apart from the last hour and would cry her eyes out if the teat was put in her mouth. I thought if she was that hungry she would take the bottle, but a big NO - she went from 8am until 5pm without a feed.
She has taken a bottle with no problems before now and in the week before going she had refused her 1st bottle then took a bit of persuasion with another and finished that off.
I have other days planned out and don't want to go worrying that she will not feed in the absence of my breasts.
To top this off I had her weighed yesterday and she has fallen into the 2nd quartile of the weight chart (the red section). She already feeds 3-3.5hrs on my breasts per day, the HV says try longer, says to EBM to try with bottle, to start weaning her (which I had planned to do this wk, even though she still sleeps through the night) - feel like I will spend virtually every waking hr feeding or trying to express (I managed about 1/2 teaspoon this morning)
Anyway moan over - thanks for listening/reading