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Breastfeeding causes vomiting, bottles do not....

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Tallblue · 21/09/2014 15:30

My 5 week old DD vomits a lot after feeding directly from me. When I give her expressed breast milk from a bottle, the vomiting is much reduced, sometimes none at all. It is very easy to burp her after a bottle, but less so after bf, although I always try as much as possible either way. She can take a long time to settle after bf, sometimes so long she is ready for the next feed which inevitably is a bottle, to avoid a further few hours of vomiting and crying. The whole cycle means that I get more and more tired and frustrated as I am not able to sleep between her feeds. I am reaching the point where I am moving towards giving her more and more bottles for both her comfort and my sanity, but this also means somehow finding the time to express more. More bottles and less bf also means we will be less well practised, and therefore if anything our bf technique could get worse. I don't know what to do, I really would prefer to bf directly and reduce the bottles but don't know how to reduce the vomiting. Has anyone else experienced this? Do you have any advice about what might be causing the vomiting and how to make it stop?

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tiktok · 21/09/2014 16:29

Taliblue, can understand your concern and frustration.

Sounds like over-supply and overactive let down to me - both closely linked.

Ring a bf helpline and discuss.

It is actually easy to get into over-supply with expressing, so there may be a bit of a vicious circle thing going on here :(

CatHackney · 23/09/2014 00:14

You might try expressing some from one side just before a feed and then feeding her from that side and seeing if it helps at all - if so, it's the oversupply and overactive letdown described above.

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