I have a 16 week ds (who was 11 weeks early so is only 5 weeks corrected) has been breastfed along with some bottles of expressed milk since he came home from scbu. Amazingly he has had no fortification or supplements in any of that time despite starting life so tiny he's been trying to catch up and the dieticians see his feeding as a success story.
He usually has 1 or 2 bottles of ebm in any 24 hours, and given he couldn't feed apart from through a tube for weeks I have always been perfectly happy expressing milk. In fact I think it's often easier especially when he's in a state for whatever reason. However DS has taken to faffing about when he's offered the breast. It's like there is always something more interesting for him to look at or do. In the daytime I can kind of understand this, he's easily distracted, but at night he's taken to being the same, wakes, feeds for a couple of miutes then gets bored or something. Which makes night feeds ether really long, or really frequent. He won't feed lying down so co sleeping doesn't work as he won't latch in that position. I'm becoming increasingly tempted to give him expressed milk overnight as the previous ease of just picking him up out of his moses basket and feeding him has gone... but ideally I would like him to still breastfeed some of the time (especially if we are out etc) Before I do so I'm interested in any suggestions or tips to persuade him that he can concentrate on feeding from me. If then it doesn't work and he just wants ebm that's fine (its the same milk after all).