hi! my baby boy has always loved boob, he’s taken bottles and breast fed since birth and always preferred boob but did perfect with either! he would latch to eat and for comfort, and around 2 weeks ago he was almost exclusively eating directly from me and not a bottle. well suddenly he’s refusing to nurse. he will only latch after he’s asleep for comfort but during the day he will not even try to. he arches his back and starts to cry if i even try. it doesn’t matter where i am, what position im in nothing. i have seen a lactation consultant and she also didn’t know why he did this. i’m not pregnant again or on my period, and he drinks breast milk perfectly fine from a bottle. it is starting to really take a toll on my mental health, if anyone has any ideas please let me know!! ty 💕
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Around that age they start to develop FOMO. Nursing is boring and they can’t see much of what’s going on while nursing I would just continue to offer to nurse if u want to continue nursing and do less bottle. It’s just a phase my son had bad FOMO all the way up till like 8 months 🤦🏻♀️he would still nurse when I guess he absolutely needed to 🤣but otherwise wanted to look around and play/explore lol

Hi, I have been facing this since my LO turned 3 months. He was very distracted and refusing to breastfeed when he was awake. So what I did was to feed him when he was half asleep. This would be either at the end of a nap or at the start of a nap. I know this is extemely hard but I am used to it now and I continue to breastfeed. Some days he still wakes up before I dream feed him. I give him expressed breastmilk for those feedings. Somedays he breastfeeds when he is awake as well. Its a hit or a miss.

Following! I’m going through this now too. 🥲