My LO is 11 weeks old. We’ve used nipple shields from day 1 as he wouldn’t latch. It’s all been going really well, but in the last week he’s suddenly started screaming at the breast and refusing to latch. Sometimes it takes 10minutes to get him to calm down enough to latch and it’s exhausting. He gets REALLY upset and frustrated, it’s like he suddenly doesn’t have the patience to latch and suck for the 5seconds or so it takes to get the milk flowing. I’ve tried squeezing some milk out and rubbing it into the end of the shield to get him the taste and encourage the feed but it doesn’t work.
It’s so depressing watching him scream when I know he’s hungry and basically forcing him to latch. I was loving breast feeding but I’m not sure how much longer I can put up with this
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Help! LO screaming at breast :(
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LordTubbington90 · 07/02/2019 14:40
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