Hello,
I'm new to posting but both DH and I are at our wits end. We're living overseas and so don't have midwife or HV and therefore noone to ask. Basically our 1 month old DS has gone from a fairly consistent 30-35 min BF every 2-3 hours to epic 1.5 to 2hr sessions in the last week. These sessions last so long that no sooner has he finished, he's ready to go again. And because he's draining both breasts, I don't even have enough left over to express to give myself a break in the early hours, leading to grown woman sobbing all over child...which obviously can't be good for helping the next problem which is he's crying ALL the time.
He cries when we put him in his buggy, his sling, on his changing mat, on his play mat, in his bath, in his moses basket and on his bouncy chair. He screams at his nice calming musical toys too. He won't take a dummy but I'm fairly sure its not colic, just the grumps but I've got no idea how to cheer him up. To get him even close to his moses basket to sleep we have soothe him on the shoulder to the point of comatosis, swaddle him and then sneak him in.
Both DH and I are now pretty exasperated. Can anyone help?!