Is this the end of my BF journey?
My heart breaks and I ended up ugly crying today because my son screams at my breast like it’s poison.
My 11 week old has suddenly started crying and screaming during breastfeeding. He opens his mouth wide and latches fine, immediately pulls away and starts crying until his face turns red. He also seems extremely distracted during nursing. We have tried burping, skin to skin, changing positions and rooms etc.. also I don’t think my letdown is strong.
Just when I thought we were finally on a good BF journey (lots of challenges initially with nipple pain, elastic nipple, milk coming in late after c section) he started doing this.
We give him one pumped bottle at bedtime (to get longer stretches of sleep) and one during overnight feed. He has always been SO good switching between breast and bottle, so I’m getting really anxious that he will prefer bottles going forward!
Please tell me this is just a phase😞
Posted Mar 27, 2026, 8:01 PM UTC