Hello
My little girl is 8 weeks old on Tuesday and until the last week or so breastfeeding has been going very well. However, we are now getting moments during the day, mostly during the early evening when she is extremely fussy at the breast, pulling off or pulling her head back but still holding on to the nipple, hitting it with her fists and crying. This behaviour is after she gulps away like she can't keep up with the milk flow. She gets really distressed.
It started with her cluster feeding in the evening during her 6th week (growth spurt I thought) and getting frustrated then, I think because the milk flow had slowed. She doesn't normally cluster feed at all.
I have been wondering whether it is oversupply, but I don't have many of the symptoms that I have read about on Kellymom -
- it is in the evening rather than the morning
- I don't feel particularly engorged at any stage and never have
- This behaviour is during the feed rather than at the beginning.
- I don't leak
- She does get wind, but nothing excessive
- Nappies aren't green
This evening I squirted her twice in the face - not at the beginning of the feed, but when she came off about 5 minutes into it as she was starting to have trouble.
I have expressed a total of 3 times as we have been thinking about introducing a cup or bottle feed so DH can feed her. These have been in the morning after my shower.
She has also just dropped a feed during the night going 3 - 4 hours, but still feeds on average every 2 hours during the day.
Any thoughts on how to deal with this? The evenings are getting very distressing. Could nursing uphill be the answer? I normally make her finish on one side and she only takes the second about 50% of the time.