Refuses breastfeeds :-(

Hey all

My 11.5 month old has willy-nilly started to refuse breastfeeds. We were at the stage where my DH feeds her a bottle (expressed milk) in the morning and I breastfeed her at night before bed. However the last two nights (and this morning just to see) she doesn't want to know me, basically doesn't suck and just starts spitting my nipple out, or worse, biting me, really hard!! We've then bottle fed her and she'll guzzle 200mls so I know she's hungry.

So, do you reckon she's self-weaning? Is it normally as sudden as that? She's always been such a "booby-baby" its weird that its a big fat no all of a sudden. I was planning on stopping at one year so its not the end of the world I guess.

Also if this is the end of it, I don't think I'll be able to express enough for two whole feeds a day so do I bother with formula or go straight to cows milk?

Just wondering what others' experiences have been or if you have any advice?

She's also just cut her fifth tooth - not sure if this has made a difference too?

TIA!!

My DD did that at around that age. I thought she was dropping that feed. I kept offering it too her and she picked it up again a couple of weeks later and is still going strong at 15 months.

Could be teething? Or a random nursing strike. DS went through this at around 6 months, but after a few days and lots of perseverance he went back to being the milk lover he always was.


MissShelt has given a good link to look at which definitely helped me.