My DS is 5.5 months old and he nurses and gets supplements. He's been a fantastic and enthusiastic nurser since he was about a month old. I nurse before every bottle, about 5 times a day and 2 times at night he nurses back to sleep.

The past few days he's been suuuuper fussy at the breast. He may latch only briefly, then he pulls off and cries and arches away when I try to relatch. At this point I give up and we give him a bottle, which he happily takes.

I can't think of anything that is different lately, except he has been extra hungry at night and taking a bottle in the middle of the night, when he normally does not. He did seem to have some teething discomfort a few days ago, but that has subsided.

Has this happened to anyone else? He does really well still in the middle of the night when he's sleepy, so maybe he's just distracted. I'm feeling a little achy, but that's probably because he's not emptying the breast (and there isn't much to empty). Manual pump, here I come