Well I thought I best come back in and give you an update...

Thank you all for helping me out. Just reading your posts gave me more confidence and a greater determination to push on. That in itself helped.

I called in my LC (Jill Bruce) who had helped us when Leo was 7 days old. She came in on the Wed am and by that afternoon we already had made progress.

My main problems were refusal and then increased feeding overnight (every 2 hours ). Jill advised that I was feeding him too much solids and he was therefore not hungry enough for the breast. Also I fed him in front of her and what I interpreted as a refusal she saw as a quick and efficient feed!

So now we are;

# offering more often,
# offering one side twice, then the other twice and if he refuses put him down, and
# only doing solid feed for breakfast and tea and then really only finger foods.

The difference has been amazing! Leo now feeds readily and happily from me wherever we are and if not then I am more relaxed and offer again.

Also at night he has been gradually getting bigger gaps between feeds again. Last night I even had 6 hours!!!!

Back to thinking about feeding long term again. I feel like I have my "baby" back!!

Very happy.

Rach