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Formula Fed looking for Boob

I really need some advice here please - if you are struggling with the same or been through similar things please, cause this breaks my heart 😭 Shortly put, my baby transitioned from combined from day 4 to combined: expressed breastmilk + formula until 1 months, and since he's been on formula only. Last week or so he started looking for my boob whenever I try to put him for a nap, he aggressively eats his fist if I lay him on his crib and I know that is a sign of looking for comfort too... I literally checked the other day if I still had milk and hand expressed a little, and yes it was there... Our main problem was his latching and lack of supply due to not being able to pump regularly when he failed to take the boob, so we both failed and my supply was pretty much insignificant... For that matter I don't even wanna try and comfort nurse him. There was an advice to do skin to skin and that made him worse to the point I have to put him to his swing and pray he goes to sleep eventually which is far from ideal for his poor neck and back... He definitely can't sleep in my arms at the moment and I hate to see him cry himself to sleep 😔 What have you done or would you do? Please I need your brains 🥲

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Mine has never been breastfed but will still crawl to my boob, it’s not a learned behaviour it’s instinctual as they can smell the milk on you. It’s never too late to get your supply back if that’s what you want otherwise just use a dummy for comfort, they are pretty essential for bottle fed babies. You haven’t failed in any way, as long as your baby is fed and happy it doesn’t matter where their food comes from x

If the issue previously was his latch, you could try again now if you're interested. Even if there is only a small amount of milk in there, you could build it back up if he starts nursing. My son was small when he was born and couldn't latch properly, but by the time he was a couple of months old his latch was much better and he became pretty effective at getting milk out (until then I had to spend a lot of time pumping). So worth trying to put him back on the boob if that's something you'd like.

@Susie I'm just super worried I'd fail to pump again and he'd refuse to take bottles going forward, but I extremely appreciate your kind words ☺️🙏🏻 I'm winging it as his instinct and trying to not take it to heart, trying other ways to soothe him

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