Hi,
Baby boy is 20 weeks and has been breastfed mostly with the occasional bottle of expressed milk since birth. Always went happily between bottle and breast.
We have had problems with reflux and for the last 6 weeks I’ve been dairy free and this seems to have improved the reflux. For the last 4 weeks though he has been increasingly rejecting the breast but would feed after coaxing, or moving to a different place but he has becoming increasingly upset when put the the breast. To a point where he will cry and won’t look at my breast when I try to feed and arch away.
He still breastfeeds at night when he’s half asleep mostly without issue.
Last weekend I went to a hen-do and my boyfriend bottle fed him expressed milk for 2 days. Now he won’t breast feed. He screams in my face for ages when I try. I’ve ended up giving him a bottle because he was getting so upset when I try to give him a cup, I’ve tried loads of skin on skin, getting the milk flowing before putting him on but he just screams.
I don’t know what to do and I’m finding it so hard and it’s so upsetting, it just feels like he hates me.
What can I do to fix this?