I'm suspecting my latch isn't great but I'm not sure.
Basically DS3 is breastfed (atm!) and although he's never had the best latch in the world he's been happy with what he's getting from me - until yesterday (and a little the day before). Yesterday evening/last night/first thing this morning have been a complete nightmare - he just doesn't seem to be able to latch on at all, then he screams and gets himself really worked up. He's had 4/5 of these screaming sessions and they generally last about 30-60 minutes. Sometimes he (appears) to be trying to latch on, othertimes he's just arching his back/neck away. When he does latch on it's only for a short time and then he falls alseep (probably exhausted).
This morning in desperation I agreed to let DH pop to tesco for some bottles, sterilisers ( on that one - didn't realise we still had the old one in the cupboard so that was an expensive buy), and yes - the dreaded formula.
While I was waiting for the water to cool down to give him a bottle of formula I decided to express some milk (as he'd not had much what with all the screaming/sleeping malarky) and got 4oz in about 5 minutes (I know lack of milk is not an issue last night I had both norks out and practically flooded the bed trying to calm him down LOL). Which I (stress that as I know sometimes they won't take a bottle from mum in the early days) then duly gave to him - he finished the lot and then did suckle for a little while on the breast and fell asleep......I managed to transfer him to his bouncy chair (he's got a 'thing' about his carry cot so didn't even try that LOL) and he's still asleep now (about 1/2 later).
So - I've got enough milk, he evidently likes it , he's been absolutely fine for 3 weeks - so why the sudden change from him???
Any suggestions. I was gutted first thing this morning about the thought of giving him a bottle of ANYTHING (let alone formula - although I happily bottlefed DS2 so possibly just hormones/lack of sleep last night there), but feeling more positive now - but I would like to try and make the breastfeeding work.
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HELP! I'ts all going to pot.........DS3 now 3 1/2 weeks what IS going on???
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fannyannie · 18/06/2007 11:03
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