Baby won’t breast feed but takes expressed milk

Hi all, I was admitted to hospital for a few days after baby was born due to septic shock and I missed out on the first two nights with him as he was in NICU. He was formula fed right away and my milk didn’t come in for the whole of my hospital stay - presume stress contributed.

Milk is now coming in slowly now I’m home but he won’t take it from me direct, only if I express it in to a bottle. I’m trying all the time but he only seems to want the bottle now.

Any tips?

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AnE ??

Maybe I’m over panicking here - all day my son (3) has thrown up, if he ate (toast) he throws up, even without stomach contents he’s throwing up, has water, he throws up - he hasn’t weed since 9am when he did a poop. He’s very tired - this is a AnE trip right or am I overreacting ?

I’m already packing a bag as I write this but…am I being a panicked mum here

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Daily training- good progress

Daddy got the baby for the whole day yesterday and somehow did all 5 activities from the daily plan 🤣
She came back to me at bedtime fully ruined in the best way — passed out by 7pm, slept through the night, didn’t make a single peep until 6am.
Praying he keeps this up because mama needs another night like that 💜