I hope that someone can help me with this.
Dd is 12+ weeks old now but was 7+ weeks prem so is actually 5+weeks corrected if that makes sense.
I have been giving her 3 bottles of lowbirthweight formula each day, trying to give them at 12noon, 4pm and 8pm with breastfeeding snacks as demanded in between and breastfeeding overnight. I make up her bottles to 120 mls but the amount that she takes is really variable, anything from 60-120ml. Often she will have a bit of formula and then refuse anymore but still appear hungry and want breast.
The past few days she has been driving me mad. I can't put her down for much more than 5 minutes during the day without her screaming. Even if she appears to be sound asleep she wakes within minutes of being put down. Usually she is ok in the pram and is quiet or sleeps when being pushed about but today I had to leave the supermarket and come home because she was just screaming constantly. She simply seems to want to have my boob in her mouth constantly and I mean constantly. She is sucking but most of the time it seems really half-hearted and I'm not convinced that she is actually being effective in transferring milk hence I feel that I am just being used as a dummy. I have tried her with a variety of dummies, a friend has given me some that her ds rejected as well as one's that I've bought, but she refuses them all. My nipples are getting sore now when I've not had problems with them previously.
It's really driving me mad and making me miserable that I can't put her down even to go to the loo without her screaming and then of course she is harder to settle.
Any ideas?
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