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windy bf baby driving me mad

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pipoca · 07/07/2011 07:22

DD is 8 wks tomorrow and apart from about 3 (small) bottles of formula, once in hospital and a couple of times since we've been home when I've been desperate in the middle of the night.
She fed well at the beginning and at about 6 weeks would do 10pm til 3am ish but in the last week or so she's had terrible wind, big wet burps, farting and possetting a lot. She now does 10pm til 1.30am and seems to spend a lot of the day screaming with wind.
I think I have fast let down (been on kellymom) as she gulps, chokes and makes clicking noises and then comes off choking and I drip like mad for a minute or two. I've tried feeding lying down but she's no better, worse if anything. She takes maybe 2 hours to settle after most feeds, altho other times she drops straight off and sleeps for a couple of hours.
The couple of times she's had formula, she glugs it down, belches loudly and goes straight to sleep. I've just got over a d and v bug, have a challenging 3 yr to look after and now have bronchitis and I'm really reaching the end of my tether and really tempted by the idea that she might feed and fucking well go to sleep settle easier. I tried infacol and all that stuff last time with DS and it just gave him the runs as far as I could see.
Something's got to give, I'm going slowly mad.

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Maursh · 25/07/2011 00:55

Saddle Hold

Also check Laid back breastfeeding. This worked reasonably well with my windy DD since it brought up the burps.

Maursh · 25/07/2011 07:41

I should also add that breastfeeding rates are not high in Spain. I think that I saw somewhere that take up was less than 30%. I don't know about other parts of Spain, but where i live, in Madrid, I rarely see women breatfeeding - it's probably regarded as common/gypsy - and many babies are on the large side suggesting that they are FF.

pipoca · 26/07/2011 11:56

I think maybe they're higher in Andalucia where I am as I see people bfing from time to time and it seems everyone at least gives it a go. Lots of breast is best talked about and people often ask if I'm bfing when they see me with DD and look very approving when I say I am. Not sure how long people keep it up tho as mat leave only 16 weeks.

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AmandaCooper · 26/07/2011 13:25

Pipoca from my experience of living in Andalusia I'm surprised random well-meaning matriarchs aren't queuing up to grab your boobs!

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