Or maybe its just a very severe case of distracted baby, but my instincts tell me otherwise :( I've posted about this before so apologies, I'm feeling a little less hysterical about it now having started on anti depressants for pnd last week.
He's 17 weeks, and it started at 13 weeks old, so been going on a month now.
He point blank refuses to feed if he's awake. He rolls away from me and arches his back away in the opposite direction. He doesn't get particularly upset, unless I push it, but if he's crying already ( and I think ooh he could be hungry) he cries even more and gets quite distressed. I feel like he's afraid of me.
I can feed him just as he wakes from a nap but leave it more than a second and he realises he's awake and won't go near me.
I have managed to feed him lying down on occasion, but not side by side, just dangling from above (looks bizarre).
Other than that, he loves his bedtime feed and has 3 feeds in the night.
He is being treated for reflux, DR thinks he has a pain association but thought it would resolve itself much quicker than it has. I have stopped dairy for 3 weeks but accidentally ate some last week, didn't notice a huge difference tbh.
He is a very alert, big and happy baby so no body is concerned except for me. I had a beautiful BF relationship with DC1 and this is making me so sad.
He is so alert that he is constantly straining his neck around to see what is going on, which is why I thought it was a distraction thing, but he won't even latch on or feed in a dark room, emulating night times. It gets worse and worse the more tired he gets.
Oh and he also has a TT, regrown after 2 snips already.
I'd like to say he's a generally happy baby, but he's becoming increasingly grumpy these last few days.
Beginning to despair...