My DD is coming up on 19 weeks and ebf. For a few weeks now I have been expressing a bottle at about 10pm and DH has been giving it to DD when she does her first wake up at midnight ish. I then do the second wake up at 4-5am and it has been working well.
The night before last and last night she just point blank refused her bottle and wouldn't settle back for long until I fed her. Poor DH was up 5 times last night trying to settle her and I was awake all of those times as well so we are bloody knackered.
I tried giving her a bottle tonight at her last feed but again she refused then latched on to me for dear life.
Why has this happenned all of a sudden??? Its bad enough that she is waking at least twice a night (sometimes more) when we had it down to once or even the odd sleep through. I am putting this down to 4 month regression and it was manageable when DH could help. The thought now that it is going to be like this for months makes me want to cry. I've been so tired and close to tears all day and snappy with my DS which makes me feel horrid.
I can't co sleep because I just don't sleep at all.
Any advice on how I can get her take a bottle again???
Its ridiculous - a few weeks ago I was on here posting about her refusing the breast and preferring a bottle. How can this have happened???? I suspect if I gave her a bottle during the day when she wasn't tired she would take it - and she did on Monday when I went to a wedding without her for a few hours. But I want her to take one at night not during the day!!!
I really wanted to exclusively bf this time at least until 6 months if not longer but this is really making me doubt if I've done the right thing