Hi everyone, wondering if anyone can give me some advice please (first time on Mumsnet!). My (almost) 3 week old DS has been exclusively bf; my milk came in on day 2 & he's had a very random pattern of anything from 3 hours to 25 mins between feeds - more good nights than bad but still not going longer than about 2.5 hours between feeds at night. I had very sore nipples initially but everyone was saying his latch was good & they just needed to toughen up, which they did about a week ago.
Now he's started having strange little fractious fits now and again - once or twice a day/night for the last few days - where he gets really agitated just as I'm trying to latch him on, keeps thrusting his tongue out and flailing about. It takes several goes to get him to latch on, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to what makes him finally latch. Then once he's got going, he'll feed quite well for about 5 minutes, then something seems to change and he starts sucking the nipple really far back into his mouth so that it gets elongated and REALLY hurts. I spoke to a bf counsellor by phone who gave me some tips for the tongue thrusting (stroking his cheek, putting my finger in his mouth) which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Starting to get a bit worn out by it all - anyone got any tips/suggestions please?
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3 week old started fussing & tongue thrusting; pain halfway through feed
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SarahD73 · 31/07/2011 21:40
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