3 months, going back to breast?

Question

Me and bub have been having breastfeeding problems for the last three months. He is 3 months old on the 23rd and has been eating the bottle (breast milk) for about 3-4 weeks pretty much exclusively due to my pain, his poor weight gain because of it, etc.

I have ALMOST fixed all the problems, and I am wondering Is there any way to get a baby back to the breast after bottle feeding?? IT's like he's forgotten how, he gets mad when the boobie is in his mouth and the milk isn't gushing out like the bottle. Will he remember?? Will he figure it out again?? He was a champion nurser in the beginning, but the pain I had made me drop my supply... So We've been through the runaround. I just want to know If I'll be able to ever exclusively breastfeed now, after all this crap?? :( It makes me sad to think I can't do it, after all we've been through!@!! Engorgement, cracked, bleeding nipples, blisters, compression lines, inverted nipples, thrush, ductal yeast, even Raynaud's.......

Answer 1

Nipple shields have a rubber nipple like a bottle. Try those and gradually wean him off of them.