Bottle Preference Help?

Hey, maybe not the answer you are looking for but we had the exact same issues and I was really beating myself up for not being able to breastfeed literally the amount if tears I shed. Looking back, I wish I didn’t and just went with the flow.

Our lactation consultant gave us a plan to offer breast but also pump every 2 hours and give bottle to ensure he is feeding and gaining weight. I just couldn’t pump every couple of hours. Wasn’t practical at all which meant my supply dropped. My baby boy is 4 months old now and has been combo feeding since his first few weeks.

I pump thrice in a day - Morning, afternoon and before bed. That gives me 5 to 6 bottles ( 100 ml each) Thats enough for me to feed him throughout the day and night time I give him formula. Initial days I could only get 3 bottles so it was more of formula but later that increased. I now have supply that gets cary forward to next day and also fresh pump. I plan to do this until he starts his solid so I am hoping 6 month

Due to word limit couldn’t add more. Our boy is a happy little boy, gaining weight as expected and is now in higher percentile around 35% though he was born in 1 percentile.

We were on a feeding plan with my first and I went on to exclusively breastfeed.
It is possible. Stick at it and don't miss pumping in the 1am-5am slot because thats where the prolactin is.
Use the combi feeding to know they're gaining weight and take the pressure off because any stress will negatively impact your supply.
My second had a tongue tie so I am topping up feeds with him now but still hoping to exclusively breastfeed once he is back to birth weight.
You've got this 💪💪💪

Hi, first of all well done for overcoming so much already. ❤️ just came to say that it is 1000% possible to turn it around, but as exhausting as it is the only thing that will really help is time and patience. My little girl was in the NICU and was too small to latch initially - we were triple feeding when discharged and I found it utterly exhausting and was constantly worried that she either wasn't getting enough or was developing bottle preference. It took alot of patience, many tears and I nearly gave up countless times but by 3.5 months she was exclusively nursing. She just needed to grow, get stronger and fall asleep at the breast less easily while still practicing at every opportunity. Stick with it if you feel you're able to, it sounds like your little one just needs more time to learn and time to grow. I used to hate giving bottles because I was worried about preference and resented pumping so much but ultimately that's what made her strong enough to feed efficiently. You got this mumma 🤍

My daughter is 20 months old she had a slight shallow latch and wouldn’t latch on my right boob at all and preferred the bottle although she only had 1 a day sometimes not even everyday
Mainly because she had trouble gaining weight but as she’s got older we’ve noticed she just quite petit

At around 12 weeks old she refused the bottle and latched on the my right boob and is still feeding from the breast and is now still boob obsessed