My baby will ONLY breastfeed when I'm dancing to music! Any ideas?

[Chocolocolate]

DD is nearly 3 months.

The last week has been horrible as she went on a nursing strike after a throat and ear infection had made it painful to feed.

Everyone kept saying - skin-to-skin etc, but she just screamed when we did that and wouldn't feed in any position.

She screamed for most of last week. The only way that I could get her to stop screaming was to dance next to the CD player, music blasting, with her in the sling.

I decided that, in order to get the skin-to-skin in, I'd do the above topless. To my surprise, DD eventually latched on and had a good feed.

Problem is, she'll now ONLY feed in this way. If I sit down or try any other position she screams so loudly. The more I try to encourage her the more she screams. If I have her in the sling she will only latch on with the music and dancing - not just with quiet!

On the plus side, I can now do the washing up whilst feeding her, but I used to look forward to sitting down for 20mins every 3 hours, now I have to dance with her. The bigger she gets the harder this will be.

How can I get her back to normal?

perhaps turn dancing to walking to swaying to standing to sitting?

and turn the cds down 1 volume notch per feed.... ?

good luck

my ds3 went through a phase like this! not with the music but i had to have him int he sling and dance/walk/jib about! it was a pita for a while but eventually he grew out of it, i started by using hte sling and getting him latched on and feeding and then swaying and then sitting and jigging him a bit but with him still in the sling etc.

have you tried a bath with her, she may latch on in the bath? what is she like in the night?