Apologies for the ramble, but still not really sure what I'm asking for.
Have a 16 week BF LO who has always been a quick eater (10mins). The last probably 6 weeks she's always been a bit difficult to feed. I always suspected either a slow let down or just her being very impatient. She'll suck for a short time, but if it doesn't come in that time she'll pull of and is very dificult if not impossible to get back on. I also quite often have to continously switch sides, as she pulls off often. We did have a nursing strike about 6 weeks ago, which I attributed to excessive bottle use (I was away for a day) which we overcame, but guess have been dealing with residual after effects.
For the last few days the night feeds have also become quite difficult with me only being able to feed her by giving her dummy and quickly swapping. However not all nite feeds are successful but guess I'm not entirely sure whether she just never wanted feeding. I gave her dummy to try and calm her down to try again and she just fell alseep.
This evening though, we completly failed to go sleep and therefore failed to feed when her feed time came and went. She's also behaving like the nursing strike. Arching her back, crying as soon as place in position and not even attempted to latch on. Is it possible the dummy has caused this. I do think that she might be teething as well. She takes alot of comfort from my finger and teething ring always in the same location and there do appear to be bumps.
The big issue however is that I am returning to work full time in a week so we can't avoid the use of bottles. Otherwise I'd go cold turkey on the dummy. Was planning on EBM. If she then does refuse the breast I don't see how I could express enough for her. I considered having DH bring her to work, but she feeds every two hours. As she has been slow to gain weight I've always been paranoid and done what I can just to get her to feed as long and often as possible. She also doesn't use me to comfort suck.
Just not sure what to do really. I'd hate to get so far just to give her formula now. Also as we've just moved country by frozen supply is VERY small.
This probably doesn't make sense and most likely full of typos.