hi, of course I don't actually think he's a weirdo...he's just started doing weird things while feeding (he's EBF). In the past few days after he's fed/guzzled frantically for about 10 mins (his feeds only last about 10/15 mins anyway) he starts arching his back, then curling up, then flayling his little legs around, paddling his hands like mad and sort of burying his face in my boob, all while sort of grunting, and still latched on. Other times he'll launch his head back (nipple still firmly clamped in mouth...) and yet other times he'll latch off and then try to get back on by turning his head side to side and sort of passing my nipple between his lips. He'll do this over and over. Eventually he sort of calms down and either goes back to feeding 'normally', falls asleep in a milk coma, or comes off and looks up at me to say, ok, am done now...
Odd. My initial though is that its wind, especially the arching back/curling up, but he's no more windy after a feed than normally. Having said that, the other night he woke up twice between 7pm and midnight when normally he sleeps through. He gave a big burp each time and I fed him back to sleep, but he didn't burp after the feed.
Oh, and he's more farty and is pooing daily again after weeks of not going for 4/5 days. Who knows if it is at all linked.
Am not worried or anything, I just wondered if anyone else had come across this??
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my ten week old DS is being a weirdo on the boob...
flipflopson5thavenue · 02/10/2012 14:31
Yeah, mine did this for a bit around the same time without any obvious cause. No idea why - trying to speed up or slow down let-down maybe? I started using white noise at the same time as feeding which settled him a bit and he doesn't really do it anymore (he's around 19 weeks). Now when he feeds he does this incredibly pleasant stroking on my arms and hands while he feeds. He can keep that up for as long as he likes! 
My Dd is 13 weeks now, and she head bangs my boob whilst shouting at it 
And will clamp my nipple between her gums then ping it. Not a fan of that one 
my 9 week old DS does the same exactly! he also does this funny little thing before some feeds with a very serious face on where he taps my breast, points in the area of my nipple and his mouth and "goo"s... I swear he's explaining the process of BFing 
either that or he's telling me that he'll eat when he wants to, not when I encourage him too!
the arm stroking sounds nice - I hope he moves on to something like that!
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