Hello, I'm new but I've been reading the boards and there seems to be lots of helpful people out there. I'd be really grateful for any suggestions about why this is happening and what I can do about it...
My baby is completely refusing to breastfeed at bedtime, she just screams at me, mouths the breast, kicks and struggles. She usually feeds ok, but not brilliantly during the day and quite well at the nightfeed. She won't take a bottle of ebm at all (but that's a whole different problem), so I can't even substitute that, I just have to put her to bed hungry and crying, although she generally falls asleep quite quickly.
I think that I might have a supply problem at this time of day because I can't get much when I express but how can she know this when she won't even latch on sometimes? I'm finding it really upsetting.
She usually sleeps really well without a feed, usually until 4am but I hate putting her down crying and her weight gain is really slow (about 3oz per week) and falling off the centiles, so I don't think she can really afford not to feed.
All a bit of a mess to be honest, not really enjoying bfing at the moment as it is such a struggle and to make matters worse big sister (almost 3) keeps bashing baby on head during day feeds.