ds is 17 days old. We had at least 14 days of crying now. I had thought it was colic. I'm also suffering from b/f thrush so the whole thing is painful. Anyway infacol does nothing and I'm slowly getting desperate so I spoke to my pharmacist who suggested I speak to my gp. She listened to me describe what was happening i.e. from about 3 or 4.00 onwards he screams and screams. He's mouthing but I had thought this was looking for comfort. I had, for a time, put him back on the breast everytime but that didn't resolve the issue it seemed to make it worse so I started to try and make him wait. The hv suggested I make him wait at least 2 hours between the start of feeds i.e. at least 1 hour 30 minute gap so that he took a proper feed. He would take a "proper" feed and then fall asleep but the moment you move him he would start screaming again.
OK enough background. GP said that he sounded like he was hungry and that I should try topping up my bf first and if that didn't settle him then she was happy to see me because something was obviously wrong. In desperation I thought I'd try it. He finished on the breast at 5.15 and was contented and let go himself. He then happily cooed and "played" for 40 minutes before he started to cry. With a kind of Hah now we'll see I made up 4 ozs and.... he drank the lot! I'm gobsmacked. What do I do now? ds is my third and most likely my last. Despite the thrush I didn't want to give up. The pain is not good so I'm not sure how long I could keep going but I was trying. I'd even started some awful diet cutting out all sugar i.e. veg fruit carbs, the lot! I'm gutted. How the hell can I increase the milk. I had tried putting him to the breast loads but that just seemed to increase his pain. Please help.