feeding

My LO has always refused sucking from my breast so I express and give him from it

Have u tried different positions? Or perhaps nipple shields so baby feels like they drinking from bottle?

I have done all that midwive came and also breastfeeding group has been but he refused always crying and it breaks my heart so since he prefers bottle I express and give it to him

Are you pace feeding the bottles? This can help them not get a preference for the bottle. If you want him on the breast then try and latch him on the breast as much as possible before giving a bottle, you could try skin to skin and this might help with encouraging him.

@Precious I'm exactly the same my little girl just couldn't get the hang of latching and would get so frustrated anytime I tried to breastfeed her. So now I'm expressing milk and bottle feeding. It feels like double the work but while I've a good supply I'm going to keep it up

Try breast compressions when he's on the breast, this makes the milk come faster so it keeps their attention. Paced feeding is definitely good when they do have a bottle, you want them to have to work for their milk so they don't take the easy route! If you can, take a couple of days where you don't do anything except spend time with your baby and do lots of skin to skin and offering breast feeds.

My baby girl refused breast since day 3, been bottle feeding her, anytime I try she always refuses so I just give up

Have you tried doing skin to skin before feeding? My LO wasn't latching for the first few weeks so I had to strip him and do skin to skin every time, and even then he just kept coming off, it was tiresome and frustrating but he seems to have gotten the point now. I was expressing and giving it in a bottle but I didn't want to keep doing that so I just cancelled my plans for a few days, did skin to skin every feed and it was stressful but he is feeding much better now and hasn't needed a bottle for almost two weeks. I went to a drop in BF clinic and they showed me some more reclined positions that sort of force him to open his mouth so that really helped. Also, just want to say it's nothing you are doing wrong. I EBF my other son for 13 months and only stopped a few months ago and I'm still having issues this time! It's not easy but it's a journey and it's worth it if you can get it figured out x