DD2 is nearly six weeks - 2 weeks corrected as she was slightly premature.
She was 7lb4 at birth at 36+3 and was 9lb when weighed a week or two ago - tracking 91st percentile for premature, or 50th if prematurity is disregarded seeing as she only just "qualifies".
She latched on shortly after birth and has never seemed to have a problem feeding - opens wide, lips flare, takes in plenty of breast, follows a varied sucking pattern, breast feels empty afterwards, no pain for me, good weight gain. So far, so good.
Two concerns, however. She makes a clicking noise most of the time while feeding, and her latch feels quite weak - it is easy to take her off. Everyone who has checked says her latch looks good but agrees the clicking sound is odd. I wouldn't mind, but she seems quite uncomfortable with wind after feeding a lot of the time - makes lots of grunting noises, seems tense, brings knees up. This seems to be relieved by winding, but she is hard to wind. I finished feeding her at 3am, tried winding her for 10-15 mins with only a little coming up, tried returning to bed but am up again as she was so restless. We use Infacol, which seems to help a lot of the time (but not now). No signs of lip or tongue tie, though I appreciate the latter can be hard to spot. DD1 had lip tie (undiagnosed but I am familiar with oral anatomy, always felt top lip was tied and BF was painful until the frenulum tore and bled, then it was fine).
DD2 also possets a lot more than my DD1 did, and also vomits a more substantial amount once every one or two days.
Apart from this she is a placid, settled baby (so far), tends to be easy to comfort and cries rarely.
Would appreciate any thoughts on the clicking, grunting and windiness, and what, if anything, I can do.
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Clicking sound when feeding windy baby.
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GruffaloPants · 04/09/2016 03:49
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