thanks for the advice...
i have decided i really do want to continue with breast feeding, i just don't know how to do this. i think i will make an appointment to see a lactation consultant... i think my supply has dropped dramatically as it has been about a week and a half and he has literally barely been feeding during the day AT ALL.... i'm talking maybe a feed at 6am, a quick suck at mid day then nothing until the evening.... i just don't see how he can be getting enough... is it true they won't starve themselves??? i feel like i'm not so sure... he seems hungry but cries when i put him on, no matter what i try... actually the one thing that sometimes works is if i put him on while he is asleep, and try to wake him, sometimes this work and he will take a feed.... i'm now in the predicament of trying to get him to feed during the day on breasts with minimal milk!
i am pumping as we speak and am going to just try to pump to increase my supply again, but its hard as i don't want to pump all the milk, then attach him and he gets angry as there isn't a good let down... i'm unsure whether he is sore from the thrush, angry at no milk, or perhaps the letdown is too strong....

sometimes during a letdown the milk spurts out like a tiny fountain with force, even when he isn't sucking... this is of course after many many hours of no breast feeding so the breasts are full...

i just want to cut out all formula whatsoever and only give him breast milk, but feel expressed breast milk from a bottle might be necessary if he hasn't fed all day... do u think ebm from a bottle is going to contribute to the breast refusal....

before he had thursh everything was going so well... i'm so disappointed. i have taken oral thrush meds as well as applying the cream... my nipples don't feel sore.... i hope it resolves itself... i might get him weighed tomorrow just for piece of mind.

thanks again, its a really trying time for me at the moment.