screaming after foremilk? anyone else had this problem?

[jazzyjazz2]

my daughter (10 wks) was a very good feeder and now suddenly turned into nightmare. she used to feed from one breast only for 20 min/ 30 min easy with a small desert type feed from breast2 (10-20min) and after her immunisations last week all of a sudden she only wants to eat the watery stuff at the beginning. It is not the fast flow problem as she feeds well for the first 5 min but now starts to be on and off every 30 seconds after that when I put her on second breast she does the same thing again and is left hungry at the end when all watery stuff is gone. there is still milk in breasts though but she just pulls herself off all the time...
Any other person with that problem? the only thing we've come up with is to pump to give her no choice but to drink everything.
anyone else had this issue and found any other solutions?

Ok my first thought is that she is now 10wks, it's very comman for baby's feeding habits to change. She could now be more efficent at removing milk from your breast and therefore getting all she needs in 5minutes. The fussing could be unrelated or due to something like a growth spurt.

You really don't need to worry to much about watery milk and fattery milk it kind of sorts it's self out. She could be having a groth spurth to, if she is still fussy after offering both breast just offer the first one again and repeat untill she's had enough.

I take it you have been expressing then topping up with a bottle?

Hi, no have not topped up with formula yet. She has been exclusively breast fed so far. would formula help? expressing seems to do the trick but just wondered whether I missed a trick on the bf?

thanks for the advice+support...

I think MigGril meant are you topping up with your expressed milk :)

You can't really tell how watery the milk she's getting is by the time she feeds, I will look for the link that explains the myth of foremilk/hindmilk a bit better....

here it is

www.kellymom.com/bf/supply/foremilk-hindmilk.html