10wo distressed while feeding - could it be teething?

[AnyasMum07]

My 10wo dd has started crying when we try and feed her (she's bottle fed) - it's as though either something hurts or she doesn't like the taste, although there's nothing new to dislike. Once she's started she's inconsolable for up to an hour - and she stuffs her fists in her mouth and sucks on them like mad. Eventually she will feed but only takes about half. It's worse in the evenings - it's not wind or thrush or tiredness, though she slept for most of yesterday, and we've been using medium flow teats for a couple of weeks. She's good tempered the rest of the time. Could this be early signs of teething?

one of mine did that and it turned out it was an ear infection.

I didn't connect it tho until I went to the doctor about baby having been screaming non-stop and then crap coming out the ear. turned out that by then his ear drum had burst and I had missed the infection completely. He was my 5th too, so made it even worse, but he was my first bottle feeder, and as he had had to be 'swapped' from breast to bottle because of various reasons and sudden ones at that I thought it was that reason he kept crying.

happened to another friend of mine too......ear infection that is.....apparently it is the movement of the jaw that aggravates the tubes leading to/from the ear.

it may not be, but always worth checking out in my mind, as when they that small it is incredibly hard to work out illness as opposed to teething etc.

hope you get sorted tho[fsnile]

my dd was doing that and I think it was because she had a sore throat - wanted to eat but it was hurting her to swallow (I only know this cos I caught her bug straight afterwards and was shocked at how sore a sore throat coulb be!).
Have you checked your dd's temp - is she snotty/coughing?
The fist in mouth does sound like teething - lots of sympathy - dd is 5.5months and likes to make herself sick by pushing her fingers too far into her mouth

Thanks for suggestions. She doesn't seem ill - no other symptoms, and when she's not feeding/asleep she's very happy and alert. She fed better yesterday - we tried feeding her while she was still half asleep each time instead of waiting until she had woken up - it did cure the crying but she still didn't take her full feeds as she kept falling back asleep!

I saw the hv yesterday - she's always nice and sympathetic but a bit useless, so no help there then.

Am thinking it can't be anything serious otherwise she'd be crying all the time or at least all the time she was feeding. Or is that rubbish logic?

btw meeping - yuk at your daughter!

Hi there,

Just wondering how it's going now AnyasMum07? My 11 week old baby has always fed really well, but just this week has started to take about half her normal amount (also bottle fed), then take a break to wind, which she does with no problem. then she refuses to take any more. She screams as if by putting the bottle back to her mouth we are about to murder her! She also seems to have found full control of her tongue as she uses this to push the teat back out with such great force it bends in half!
Like your DD, she is good tempered the rest of the time, and we have just started using the next flow teats.
She is happy sucking on a dummy though - although not for long - she spits them out too!