I have no idea what has happened to my once harmonious nursing relationship with my almost 7 month old.
It's been almost a week now of stressful nursing sessions.
Her schedule has always been that she would nurse when we got home from work around 4 or 4:30, now she doesn't want to nurse at all in the evenings. As soon as we sit down in the chair she starts to buck and cry. This is not like her at all, she has always been such an agreeable and easy baby.
So I just get up and let her go until she fusses again, sit down and it's the same thing. the only way I have gotten her to nurse is if I express some milk on to my finger and put it in her mouth, then she might or might not do it.
She has her last feeding at the nanny's at 1:00 pm and she is now going until bedtime which is around 7 pm, she doesnt ever go that long. she usually goes 3 or 3 and a half hours at night.
That said, she is nursing fine at night. no fighting at all.
She also hasn't pooped in a couple days, last night she woke at 1 am and was trying so hard to poop and I changed her and it was like a ball. She is exclusively breastfed. I just started feeding her some solids, brown rice cereal I make at home and a couple fruits and veggies. The nanny said to give her prunes, but I don't want to add another solid to her diet. She was only having them once a day anyway. My mom said corn syrup and there is no way that I am doing that, but I can tell she is miserable. She has never had this problem before.
I don't know if that is the culprit or rufusing to eat and the night waking.
She is night waking more the last week, not really crying or anything, just needing comfort, to be held. But that is not like her either. She usually wakes to eat and goes right back down.
Nursing sessions have become stressful and I am sure that doesn't help. I try to relax myself and just be empathetic that something must be wrong. I work full time and the sleep loss and the stress are wearing on me, I find myself feeling really emotionally out of control. I have two older kids too, and so sleeping is hard to come by anyway.
So these are the things I have tried:
nursing her in bed
stopped solids
smaller afternoon bottle at the nanny's
I have noticed that my supply is going down too, I am not getting as much in my pumping sessions at work. I had to use some of my stash.
Someone said maybe she teething. Constipation might be why she is refusing to nurse? Maybe she is getting older and going longer between feedings?
I need some advice here.
I miss my quiet nursing moments, it was what I looked forward too all day.
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It's been almost a week now of stressful nursing sessions.
Her schedule has always been that she would nurse when we got home from work around 4 or 4:30, now she doesn't want to nurse at all in the evenings. As soon as we sit down in the chair she starts to buck and cry. This is not like her at all, she has always been such an agreeable and easy baby.
So I just get up and let her go until she fusses again, sit down and it's the same thing. the only way I have gotten her to nurse is if I express some milk on to my finger and put it in her mouth, then she might or might not do it.
She has her last feeding at the nanny's at 1:00 pm and she is now going until bedtime which is around 7 pm, she doesnt ever go that long. she usually goes 3 or 3 and a half hours at night.
That said, she is nursing fine at night. no fighting at all.
She also hasn't pooped in a couple days, last night she woke at 1 am and was trying so hard to poop and I changed her and it was like a ball. She is exclusively breastfed. I just started feeding her some solids, brown rice cereal I make at home and a couple fruits and veggies. The nanny said to give her prunes, but I don't want to add another solid to her diet. She was only having them once a day anyway. My mom said corn syrup and there is no way that I am doing that, but I can tell she is miserable. She has never had this problem before.
I don't know if that is the culprit or rufusing to eat and the night waking.
She is night waking more the last week, not really crying or anything, just needing comfort, to be held. But that is not like her either. She usually wakes to eat and goes right back down.
Nursing sessions have become stressful and I am sure that doesn't help. I try to relax myself and just be empathetic that something must be wrong. I work full time and the sleep loss and the stress are wearing on me, I find myself feeling really emotionally out of control. I have two older kids too, and so sleeping is hard to come by anyway.
So these are the things I have tried:
nursing her in bed
stopped solids
smaller afternoon bottle at the nanny's
I have noticed that my supply is going down too, I am not getting as much in my pumping sessions at work. I had to use some of my stash.
Someone said maybe she teething. Constipation might be why she is refusing to nurse? Maybe she is getting older and going longer between feedings?
I need some advice here.
I miss my quiet nursing moments, it was what I looked forward too all day.
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