DD is fully breastfed in the sense that she is only getting breastmilk but she is now getting one bottle of expressed milk per day. Either I go to bed early leaving DH to do a feed at 11 or midnight, and then bring her to me afterwards, or I do the midnight feed and bring her to him after that, and he does the 3-4am feed with the expressed milk, and brings her back some time between 6 and 7 am. We are sleeping in different rooms at the moment to make this system possible, which is a bit of a shame, but it's a price worth paying. Does it make me deeply weird to admit that I actually quite like expressing? There's something satisfying about seeing the milk level dripping slowly up in the bottle, and watching your nipples do the crazy water jet thing.
Since we started doing this I feel a whole lot better because it means both of us are getting at least 5 and sometimes 7 hours of sleep a night, which is so much better than the chaos before - the first couple of weeks in December I hadn't had more than 2 hours consecutive sleep for 5 weeks, and the tiredness was really starting to get to me.
We've been lucky though because DD has always been a good feeder - no problems with latch after the first few days. She definitely prefers breast to bottle, but she accepts the bottle when she realises that milk comes out of it. But several people have told me that their DC initially accepted bottles and then later on refused them, so this may only be a short term strategy.
Poor little thing has been under the weather with some kind of tummy bug. Very sleepy all day, and unhappy when awake, needing to be constantly rocked and jiggled, which isn't like her. She perked up when given a bath and seems to be a bit more cheerful now, so hopefully it's passing out of her system.