BF help! What's happening? why won't he feed?

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DS is 3 weeks. We've been BFing great but tonight, and the same thing happened a few nights ago, he's just going mad. He feeds ok for a few minutes then makes a choking sound and spits the boob out and then waves his arms about screaming with his mouth open wanting feeding again. This goes on for 2 or so hours until he finally drops off to sleep. I've tried all the positions, feeding pillow, no pillow, skin to skin. We both get so tired and it's so frustrating for both of us. I don't think it's my latch as its normally good. Have I eaten something to make the milk taste weird? Is this colic? I started infacol today as couldn't get his wind up and he's done lots of burps tonight during this feeding marathon. Why is this happening?

don't panic, its prob just a growth spurt, he's over sucking to get the supply in that he'll soon need. just go with the flow, burp him/let him throw up/re-attach, its tiresome but it doesn't last long. the best thing you can do is know whats happening and make sure your comfortably settled with supplies/drinks/nappies/wet wipes/books/ tv remote/i pad. get through this and your supply will be sorted, it becomes something of a breeze once you get through this stage!

I have same problem with dd nearly 5 weeks - she often does this in the evenings. But was frantic last night in the exact way the op described. Also kicks her legs around in an angry way! Is it a growth spurt or should i be looking at other things?

Agree with PP it could be a growth spurt but another thing to bear in mind especially if it's happening in the evening is over tiredness, possibly combined with frustration at slower let down in the evening, when supply can be a bit low. IME your boobs will sort out the supply thing if you give your body a bit of time, and as the baby gets more efficient at getting milk out.

So worth really trying to get regular naps in during the day, and switching feeding from side to side quite often during the evening feed - I've sometimes wondered vwhether simply altering the scenery by switching sides can snap them out of fussiness .

we had this in the early days and I also wondered whether there was something 'off' my my milk, but actually it was probably too much let down when it happened, and it did settle down fairly quickly (didn't feel like that at the time!)

Make sure u aren't wearing perfume or a strong deodorant as this impacted on me once for a whole day with ds when he was a newborn until I had a bath he wouldent feed but was wanting milk I had sprayed perfume on myself that morning. Just a random thing but in case it helps you

My DD does this sometimes. It's when she is tired. She can't latch properly and just thrashes about getting more and more furious. I put her on my shoulder and try to calm her so she'll sleep. 9 times out of 10 she'll fall asleep and is much more sensible when she wakes!
It scared me at first as I thought it was something to do with my supply. Hold your nerve and keep calm.

Hi everyone, op sorry to hijack thread! But wanted to say thanks for advice so far to all and come back with an update. Last night I tried some different things and it was definetly better - when the thrashing and fury started I took her off, sat her on my lap and did a 10 min stint of gentle winding and back rubbing. She then calmed down, chilled a bit and did s

Sorry phone issues!
she did some burps and calmed. Then I put her back on the opposite side. I also tried to make sure I sat more reclined and she was a bit more upright than normal when feeding.
Anyway I managed to get her to bed for 8.15 which was good, so will try same again tonight

Some helpful advice here thanks all. My hv said it could be colic so infacol is worth a try. He also could be over tired as mil stayed this weekend so lots of excitement!