My son is 2 mo. Since he was about 2 weeks we have had the same problem, and nothing I do seems to help.
This doesn't happen all the time, sometimes we can go a couple of days where it doesn't happen at all, and sometimes it will happen every feeding and it is so frustrating!!!
He will latch on and latch right off, he will be crying, shaking his head, flailing his arms and legs (he has gotten really good at pulling my glasses off), sometimes he wont latch on at all, and start doing that, sometimes he will nurse for a few minutes and then start doing that. We thought it was a forceful letdown - I hand expressed or pumped before feeding - didn't make a difference. I tried nursing him laying down on my side - didn't work, didn't help. I tried modified football hold and couldn't figure it out (he is 13 lbs 12 oz and 25 in long so I think he is just too big for football). I tried reclining back to bring him over the breast b/c it was spraying - din't help. We thought it was reflux, but Zantac didn't seem to make a difference. I thought it was gas - I would burp him and he would still do it after burping. SOmetimes I would just try again in 20-30 min and that would work, and sometimes I would pump and give him a bottle and that would work too (wondering if he got lazy with bottle but he switches back and forth pretty easily). And sometimes I would just put him to sleep and that would work too, skipping the whole feeding.
and today he has a lot of spitup but i dont think it happens always
We are both so frustrated about this. Plus I am going back to work in 3 weeks and he will be bottlefed with my milk, and I am afraid he will get so used to it, that he will stop nursing all together.
I am really not sure what else I can do, please if you have any advise, help me out!
Thank you so much
This doesn't happen all the time, sometimes we can go a couple of days where it doesn't happen at all, and sometimes it will happen every feeding and it is so frustrating!!!
He will latch on and latch right off, he will be crying, shaking his head, flailing his arms and legs (he has gotten really good at pulling my glasses off), sometimes he wont latch on at all, and start doing that, sometimes he will nurse for a few minutes and then start doing that. We thought it was a forceful letdown - I hand expressed or pumped before feeding - didn't make a difference. I tried nursing him laying down on my side - didn't work, didn't help. I tried modified football hold and couldn't figure it out (he is 13 lbs 12 oz and 25 in long so I think he is just too big for football). I tried reclining back to bring him over the breast b/c it was spraying - din't help. We thought it was reflux, but Zantac didn't seem to make a difference. I thought it was gas - I would burp him and he would still do it after burping. SOmetimes I would just try again in 20-30 min and that would work, and sometimes I would pump and give him a bottle and that would work too (wondering if he got lazy with bottle but he switches back and forth pretty easily). And sometimes I would just put him to sleep and that would work too, skipping the whole feeding.
and today he has a lot of spitup but i dont think it happens always
We are both so frustrated about this. Plus I am going back to work in 3 weeks and he will be bottlefed with my milk, and I am afraid he will get so used to it, that he will stop nursing all together.
I am really not sure what else I can do, please if you have any advise, help me out!
Thank you so much
Your local LLL can surely help you find out how to do that.
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