Baby not bothered about breastfeeding.

how often are you currently offering milk?

My son is getting the same, he will pretty much only take a feed before bed now and even then I feel he would happily replace that with weetabix or something, but it almost feels wrong to me to stop. Im going to ask his health visitor next week when she comes about it and see if we can start offering cows milk sooner x

@Charlie 4 times a day. After every wake up and before bed. He’s even titting around with a bottle of expressed milk.

@Sophie this is how I feel too. ‘Feeds’ can be as short as a minute or two now. I don’t really want to stop though, but it is beginning to seem pointless.

@Kirsty we are the same so they must not be taking much at all!? Mine wont accept a bottle either, he prefers water from his straw cup. Hes just really took to food and not interested in anything else😩. But I understand how you feel about not wanting to stop yet! Its quite sad x

I'm not going through it but if it was me. Id maybe start with offering 2 a day and see if he feeds better. Then maybe just bedtime only if he's still a struggle. My friend has a LO 10.5 months and she's just doing nighttime and HV at the review said not to bother with formula because at 12m you then make the switch to cows and probably want to avoid 2 transitions for ease

When I say nighttime I mean the bedtime feed

I wouldn't stop now. It's likely a phase. Is he teething? Some babies will go off the boob when they are teething, others get crazy about it. It's likely he's going through some development and he's just busy. Things change so quickly with them! I would keep offering, always be available, it'll be fine. Breastfed babies are very good at managing their needs for milk. You could drop back on the food slightly to see if that helps, but if he's happy with food and water, just go with the flow.

I’d say it’s a phase too, babies are unlikely to self wean before the age of 2. He’s probably just distracted by everything else that’s going on. Maybe try and feed in a quiet, dark room for a bit to see if that helps. I think most breastfed toddlers get back into boobs in quite a big way, it’s an excellent way to calm tantrums! 😂

I’m not sure it’s a phase, it’s been a gradual decline in interest ever since we introduced food. He LOVES food and drinking water, I could (and have) feed him until he vomits (now I cap it at two bowls plus finger food and yoghurt). I’d like to carry on but worried my supply will dry up if he continues to mess around on it. I wonder if there’s anything in there anymore ☹️

They get so distracted the older and smarter they get. I have to feed my LO sitting on my bed, or sitting kn the back of the car. Also depending how much food they have they can go off breast milk, mine did, so we got rid of his snacks and reduced meal portions. Have a word with your local infant feeding team💚

My 10 month old does get distracted easily when feeding if we are out or she’s watching her brother, but she loves loves feeding when she’s tired especially. Don’t give up. Try to not offer loads of food I’m feeding before breakfast and before morning nap andshe feeds at about 1:30 for afternoon nap and then before bed x sometimes we do miss one feed maybe x

Well that’s us stopped now 😭😭 last few days he’s been refusing to latch and getting upset when I try. I haven’t been able to get him on the boob at all over the weekend 😢😢

@Kirsty are you giving him to much food ?

You have some an awesome job feeding him for 10 months, a beautiful bond created and great start in life

I’m sorry it hasn’t turned out the way you hoped. You did so well, every drop was liquid gold. Are you expressing anything?

@Rose Just 3 meals a day, no snacks. I think he’s just over it. HV said it happens. It did with my eldest but not until he was 18 months

@Kirsty oh okay! Well you’ve still done a good job. I always try to offer boob before breakfast and then her morning nap she has some, and then for afternoon nap and then before bed time xx

@Lauren I tried expressing, no a drop out of my left boob and only 5ml out of my right 😢 I used to get 100ml out of both…

@Kirsty that might not mean that you aren’t producing still. I’m so bad at pumping but have fed my eldest for over 3 years. Does he accept what you’re expressing?

@Lauren He’s not been interested in drinking my frozen stash, apparently major titting about at the bottle, turning his head away, pushing it, biting it etc. Today has been my first day of not offering my boob. It’s kinda a relief in a way as it got so difficult and upset him so much when I previously tried. Was also nice to wear non nursing clothes, so that’s a silver lining I guess.

@Kirsty I can’t get mine to take a bottle either. You could try mixing it into his food to use it up. Haha I’m jealous of the non nursing friendly clothes, I’ve forgotten what that’s like!