Formula fed baby wants to bf

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My 8 week old baby has been exclusively formula fed from roughly a week old due to her absolute refusal to breast feed. We tried so hard to establish feeding but she had serious meltdowns when put anywhere near the boob. We stayed in hospital for days trying to get her to feed but nothing at all would work.
Fast forward to 8 weeks and we’re cuddling on the sofa and all of a sudden she’s pulling at my top trying to get to boob. I let her try and she’s managing to latch on albeit it only for 20 seconds a time. Has anyone else had a baby reject bf at birth then want it at a later stage?

Not sure what the Aibu is exactly but I’ll say that yanbu for going with her cue! I haven’t experienced what you have as have bf, but know women can relactate with persistent effort, and some friends who couldn’t bf have allowed their babies just to suckle for comfort.

I think let her use you for comfort and see what happens, it is a natural instinct for them so it won’t do any harm.

My son combi fed for six weeks. And then went exclusive formula for two weeks after which he got poorly and the breast was all that soothed him. So now we have breast once or twice a day - but it’s probably a comfort thing more than milk - although I am still producing milk.

Your body will be capable of starting to produce if the demand is there. Follow her cue!

I have no idea why there are voting buttons / it’s certainly not something I would put to the vote 🤷🏻‍♀️

Get some face to face support of you can- relactating is possible but would probably need some effort and support. On fb there is a yummy mummy BFing support page you could join?
I think it’s really sweet.

IDS1 was mixed and then mostly bottle fed for a while at the start as I was really poorly (appendix burst shortly after I had him). I pumped and dumped when I could but was mostly too ill to do so. At 8 weeks or so I tried again, just latched him again and again either in bed together or sitting on the sofa watching the entire buffy series on dvd. He was bigger by then and got the latch pretty quickly, and luckily my body responded and we managed to get feeding re-established. I fed him until he was 2!

I remember texting the lactation consultant asking what to do and she just said "latch, latch, latch again and again and again"!

As above and also let him latch as much as he wants at night as that’s when hormone levels are highest for milk production.