Hi all - looking for some advice after a difficult week. My 7 week old has been exclusively breast fed for most of his (short) time on earth so far, though we introduced a single bottle in the evenings at 5.5 weeks to allow me to get some sleep. Last week my baby started fussing at the boob in the evenings. Didn’t think too much of it until my husband lost his sense of taste in Saturday past then got a positive on a lateral flow test. Long story short, my baby then developed a temp and signs of dehydration and after taking him to the hospital the next day he was confirmed to have Covid. This was traumatic enough in and of itself. However, to add to the problem the nursing issues have increased since. At the hosp the doctor made me give him a bottle of formula to see how serious the dehydration issue is. Since then my LO has been fussing at the boob for an increasing number of feeds. He still will breastfeed sometimes, but I have had to resort to a bottle for the first morning and the first early evening feeds. The nurse thinks it’s because sick babies find breastfeeding so much harder than bottle feeding. I appreciate Covid will be quite rare in babies so young, but I wondered if anyone else had experience of sick babies struggling with breastfeeding when ill but then getting back on track when they got better and, if so, how you achieved that. I am trying not to put too much pressure on atm when he is still ill, as the most important thing is to make sure he is fed / getting enough fluid, but would appreciate any advice going forward. Planning an afternoon of skin to skin later in the hope that might help. Thanks in advance.