4 m.o. ds not enjoying his milk today. Is it something I said?

[Kif]

The little guy - normally a star feeder - has been latching on and off and crying lots every feed today.

I came to the breakfast table today ashen faced muttering about teething. Look down, little guy is beaming at his dad. Then proceeded to be mr. sunshine right up until I| got my norks out again just now... now tears, latching on and off, not seemingly getting any food - cheesed off monkey.

Eh?

Have you eaten anything odd? my little one got bad tummy ache when I ate quorn. Is he windy?

Urrr - a little windy - but that might be the crying.

Haven't eaten anything odd I can think of. Perhaps a little heavy on the caffeine...

I've a grumbling thing of thrush in the milk ducts that flares up when i have too much sugar (a little sore now) - but it's never affected my nipples or his mouth...

bump.

I'm having a lousy time recently with the bf.

We did have this cosy 3.5hr routine going. I got grief from the hv for ds not putting on weight fast enough, they were really insistent that his feeds are too widely spaced. Bfc - after a couple of wks - suggested that perhaps he could do with more frequent feeding - perhaps he was a bit too chilled and not shouting out for food.

Thing is, ever since (2 wks ago) I've gone along with this 'feed more frequently - whenever he might be hungry' thing, the bf has gone rapidly downhill.

First few days we just went onto feeding additionally on the mid point between the usual feeds. But now the feeds are completely unstrucutured - sometimes cluster sometimes gaps - roughly avery 90 mins; he fusses at the breast (and has started to show signs of just refusing sometimes) daytime sleep is up the spout, waking more in the night - and the main thing is that it feels like a little more crying each day.

I'm knackered, I'm crying because I can't take my little boy screaming at me so much, and I'm just about ready to chuck in the towel... I'm not really sure what hit me and how to get out of this mess.

Hi maybe it is thrush or he is havin one of those days my dd is small and would have days like these especially when due a growth spurt Your routine obviously worked for you maybe he isnt that hungry yet or you have good quality milk

I am no expert at all but it sounds like you were doing ok till you changed were you worried about him at all when you were in he routine

Dont give up just yet I am sure it will settle down my HV is anti BF so I get these remarks alot

I'm with you. I can't offer any advice, but only the consolation that dd is almost four months and has been a grumpy, whingy grotty baby who will feed at half hour intervals if allowed, and now keeps waking up at night. I am only on Mumsnet now because she's been sent out for a long walk with her father...

All I'm holding on to - for what it's worth - is a post I found when looking up growth spurts on here (there is one about now, apparently). Someone said that if there was one unscientific thing she'd learnt, it was that all babies went a bit wierd at 4 months. Mind you, she didn't say when that finished though.

Could be teeth - his gums may be tender.

meant to say, for the last week.

And also, that I get by with expressing every so often, and handing her over to her father for a feed when it all gets too much.

How are you?

Growth spurt? 4 m.o.? Y'think?

I guess i thought that it was all down to the broken routine.

I'm holding on to the thought that it's a growth spurt just for my sanity, as that implies it might end soon... The alternative is too awful to contemplate