My DS is exclusively breastfed and will be 22 weeks old on Sunday. For about the last 3 weeks, he's been increasingly fussy at the breast: writhing and arching his back. Switching sides mid-feed seemed to help initially, and he would then continue to feed from the other side.
However, things have got steadily worse, to the point that he now screams with pain 5 mins into every feed, and switching sides no longer really helps.
I rang my HV who told me to take him to the GP. I've taken him to 2 different GPs in the last 3 days, both of whom have examined him and decided that he looks fine, is still getting wet nappies and therefore doesn't have a problem.
He obviously is taking in enough milk to keep getting wet nappies, and this is why the doctors aren't concerned. But he is in lots of pain every feed, and so I am very concerned. One of the GPs told me to try him on solids, but I'm reluctant to try that in case it makes whatever is hurting him worse.
Just wondering whether anyone else has experienced anything similar and, if so, what it turned out to be.
If things continue like this, I plan to take him to A&E where, I believe, you HAVE to be seen by a paediatrician if you go in with a baby.
I really don't think I'm a hysterical mother, but no-one is taking me seriously. I can't bear seeing the poor little scrap in such pain several times a day, and it's made worse (for me) because it feels like I'm the one who's hurting him
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5 month old screaming in pain when breastfeeding
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SlightlyDoolally · 04/09/2009 19:11
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