Any ideas?

[NoTeaForMe]

My baby is 12 weeks old and I mix feed her. She has two bottles of formula a day and the rest I breast feed. Recently she has become very fussy especially on the bottle at bed time. We thought it was due to needing to move teat size but although she took the variflow teat (tommee tippee) today really well we were back to the same problem tonight. She thrashed about and goes like a rod of iron-she then had a hell of lot of wind tonight, more than she's ever had! Last night I ended up breastfeeding and tonight we put the old teat on and she was ok ish in the end. She is also then waking up every couple of hours and feeding through the night. She is also occasionally waking up screaming, or crying in her sleep (mainly this is in the day) which is very upsetting for us both!! Shenis much better through the night and in the day though is still a bit unsettled. I have wondered if she is not getting enough milk from me but as she is doing it on the bottle too I just don't know.....any ideas?

NoTea so sorry to hear that you are having trouble. Like you I don't think it can be an issue with your supply as she is the same on the bottle.

Unfortunatley though, I don't know what it could be. Not much use I know.

Hopefully someone will be along soon with some more experience or training.

[http://www.kellymom.com/babyconcerns/fussy-evening.html] Some info her about fussy babies in the evening. Bf babies tend to want to suckle all evening in the early weeks/months. This is known as cluster nursing. Have you tried replacing the evening bottle with bf and see what happens?

www.kellymom.com/babyconcerns/fussy-evening.html

maybe she wants to breastfeed rather than have the bottle?

are you averse to just breastfeeding and seeing how she goes? maybe the formula is upsetting her tummy? hence the waking and screaming?

Problem is I don't find breastfeeding a pleasure infact it's still hurting after a while especially after her snacks, I've got to 3 months now and I never thought I'd get this far, to be honest I am looking at adding in mother bottle this weekend to wean her onto formula entirely. She doesn't wake up screaming after a bottle feed, in factast couple of days it's been after breastfeeding so I really don't think it's the formula upsetting her tummy in that way?

Have you seen a real life bf counsellor to get her latch checked? Pain can be an indication that something isn't right. The first 3 months is the most hardest time and it gets easier as babies become more efficient don't feed for as long.

This sounds a bit like my baby who was today diagnosed with Reflux. She's 13 weeks. I am FF. She screams the place down and goes really stiff and arches her back at every feeding. It gets progressively worse throughout the day - as if the long sleep at night helps to heal whatever hurts and it burns more throughout the day. Might be worth looking on the web to see other symptoms to see if any fit the bill. Hope she gets better.

definitely see a breastfeeding counsellor! you shouldn't be in pain, that's a good indication that something is wrong with her latch, or positioning or something similar

so, if you feel like you'd want to continue breastfeeding if it wasn't painful that would be your first step.

whereabouts are you? maybe I could recommend someone for you to see?

Thanks all, I'm happy enough with breastfeeding now, I've got a lot further than I thought I would (I got mastitis 3weeks after giving birth and was given what turns out to be bad advice from the gp, this made me mess my supply up I think and I had terribly cracked nipples-actually bits of my nipple were being eaten!- and a blood blister on the side with the mastitis! This all made for a horrible start to breastfeeding) Its been very emotional, and I didn't think I'd get this far at all, adding in 2 bottles of formula a day has made me get this far, and I'm happy to carry on as I am and then slowly adding in more formula, I want to do this slowly as my baby was quite constipated for a couple of weeks and if it was the formula if rather go slowly so she can adjust.

Do you think she is having a bit of a growth spurt, which would explain her waking in the night more often again? Why do you think she doesn't like the bedtime feed now? Is there a reason why she is so upset and being quite sicky? She had her 12 week injections today so I guess I can't judge how she is for a few days?

Thanks.

Does anyone have any ideas? She is now fussy whenever we give her the bottle, a bit fussy on the breast but not really. She will take half the bottle and then have a natural break, we sit her up to burp her and then she screams the place down if we try and give her more from the bottle. This last feed she only took 3fl oz when normally she would take just over 5. She was rooting around a bit so think she was still a bit hungry but screamed if I sat down to feed her.
Do you think the medium flow Teats would make a difference? I think prob not but my husband thinks they're worth a try!

Please help, feeding her is turning into a nightmare again!!