3 month old sudden feeding distress

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I'm hoping someone here can help. My 3month old ds has been ebf since birth. We've been doing so well but for about the last 2 weeks he's been crying and getting distressed when I position him to feed. He's also pretty much refusing my right breast. This only happens in the day. During night feeds he feeds fine on either breast without problems. He will rarely take a bottle as I left it quite late before I tried it with ebm. Before xmas dh or I was trying to give him one bottle of ebm in the evening as I wanted the option to leave him with dh or mum so I could get a break. This is when it started. I'm so upset that I might have caused him some sort of anxiety or nipple confusion and now he's gone down a percentile. The hv was not much help to be honest. I've tried calpol, teething gel, skin to skin time but nothing is helping. Is this just a phase he's going through? Has anyone else experienced this?

Yes at about the same age as you - dd refused right side in day and would cry if I tried - then would take the other no prob. I just let her have the preferred side and expressed the rejected one. It passed after a couple of weeks and now she is back to either one.

Ohh interesting, I'm having the same thing with me 13 week old, also started around xmas. With DD it is the left breast she doesn't like, which is definitley the less efficient one. I haven't solved the problem, but have found that if I start her off on the preferred one until left boob let's down, then transfer her over without repositioning so she is in football hold rather than cradle hold we have some success. This is fine at home on the sofa, but a massive faff when out and about. Hoping it will pass soon as its stressing me out!

I have this too!! I assumed that rejecting the right means she's going to be left wing
I have oversupply and I think lefty has corrected herself but righty still gives too much milk and chokes dd. At night time she is much less fussy. Weird babies...

Same. Also 12 weeks. My right is definitely more productive and I think it's just too fast for her. When she does take it, she'll pull off spraying milk everywhere. She's fine during the night too.

She has started to get over it in the last couple of days though, fingers crossed.

Glad it's not just us. Hopefully this will pass then. It seems to be one of those baby mysteries

I remember posting the same problem when DS was about 3 months, back in 2004! It's unexplainable and yes, it will pass