My baby is six weeks old, Ive been breastfeeding her since birth and up until 5 weeks it was going beautifully, but all of a sudden it's changed. My breasts are becoming extremely soft very quickly and my baby is now finding it hard to latch and stay on, I can't hear her swallowing any milk and she's acting frantic, feeding constantly and trying so hard to get milk from me that she's pulling me nipples viciously in all directions, plus every time she comes off the breast (which is every couple of seconds) she starts crazily scratching at my breasts and has made my nipples so so sore. I've just had her on my breasts for 4 straight hours but have had to put her down because I'm now in pain. It's not because she's going through a growth spurt, I know they eat more then and have already had a couple of growth spurts with her and have been happy to feed her because she was latching well, no pain for me and you could hear her getting tons of milk, but now with it like this, it's becoming unbearable for me. For the last week it's only been like this from around 6 in the evening onwards but today she's got like it late morning. I've heard of people having problems with latch when the breasts are engorged but it seems to be the opposite for me. When my breasts feel a little more fuller and heavier (like when I woke up this morning) she's well away on them getting tons of milk and no latch problems at all. I'm so close to giving breastfeeding up, just because I cannot cope with the pain when it gets like this and I cannot bear to hear and see her screaming with hunger. She was born weighing 6 pounds 6 and now at 6 weeks + 2 days she nearly weighs 10 pounds, so just proves how much I have allowed her to feed and so haven't been skipping feeds which would cause my milk supply to decrease. I just feel as if my body is suddenly failing her and I don't know why. :( I'm starting to feel really depressed and my partner is no help at all, just telling me to stop getting so stressed with it all when he hasn't got a clue and he's not the one who has to go through this pain every day. I don't know what to do.
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