thrush; not feeding well, baby blues?

[forevermore]

this is long sorry.

my 8 week old has thrush on her tongue. for weeks i was told it was milk residue, but now its so thick its called thrush.
i have been given daktarin gel, but no change, but realise now that i hadn't really applied it as religiously as i should have. the problem i am having is this...
she doesn;t feed well (2-3oz every 3-4 hours). up to this week i was mainly breast feeding and 2 bottles a day, now i am too stressed to breat feed. (she has started fussing at the breast and this distresses me to point of tears so i just give her a bottle, then get upset that she only sucks 2 ozs when tin says for 10lb baby she should be sukcing 50z ever 4 hours)

she has steadily put on weight since being born 4 weeks early (6lb). but i cannot get this fact registered enough to relax. i just keep thinking she isn't eating enugh, and now the thrush must be making it worse and she will waste away???


feel like i am going mad with worry. vicous circle forming, small feeds, force feed, vomit, daktarin gel washed off so no treatment, more feed, more worry, no breast feeding.

i just want her to eat more and the thrush to go. but now feel in a rut of negative thinking

[hunkermunker]

Are you sure it's thrush? Who has diagnosed it? Do you have any symptoms?

[compo]

poor you. I think all you can do is feed her when she wants it and don't worry if it's little and often. The guidelines on the tin are very hard to follow, my ds had a lot more than they said at this age and I worried myself silly that he was eating too much!

[hunkermunker]

Please get a bfeeding counsellor or someone who really knows about breastfeeding to have a look at her.

She's gaining weight. Leave off the formula (sounds like she doesn't really want it anyway) - and breastfeed her.

[forevermore]

does thrush hurt them or make them reduce feeding?

[hunkermunker]

Have a look here, there's loads of info

[eidsvold]

whne my dd2 had thrush she seemed to fuss at feeding and I was given drops for her - to be used after each feed and the daktarin gel was for me to use as I had managed to get it too. I just applied the gel to each nipple after each feed and that stopped reinfecting her. Until I realised what it was it was painful for me to feed and she was fussing like anything. I imagine it might annoy them but don't think it hurts them.

Over here in Aus the drops are prescription not sure about the UK - see if you can get those, use the gel on your nipples and you will see a change quite quickly and she will probably feed better again.

I would leave off the formula and try and breast feed when she wants it and for as long as she wants - she may do little but often. It can get very depressing - I can remember thinking like this.... and wondering whether I would get the hang of breastfeeding etc. My dd1 was bottle fed so this was all new to me.