My 11 week old ds has always found latching on difficult. When he was born he couldn't bf for over a day so we were advised to give him formula top-ups. ( he was also losing lots of weight and was slightly jaundiced). At 3 weeks we found he had a tongue tie and this was snipped at 7 weeks. We had more help from bfc and he seemed to be latching on and feeding well and we reduced the bottles to 1 or 2 a day. Over the last 2 weeks he seems to have forgotten how to latch on and comes off every minute or so. He gets more and more frustrated and upset, banging his head, crying and hitting out. He becomes so upset he can't breastfeed and I end up giving him a bottle, which I would prefer not to do. He feeds better in the evenings when he is more relaxed. Every time we see a bfc his latch is fine and no-one can give me any ideas about how to calm him down so that he can breastfeed more happily?
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My 11 week old gets so upset he can't breastfeed
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kauto · 22/02/2008 14:09
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