DC2 is 18 weeks and has been EBF (with the odd bottle of expressed milk) since birth. Initially feeding went brilliantly, with him latching really well and gaining weight quickly. However, since 14 weeks he's been getting progressively more and more awkward to feed. He'll latch on, take two or three mouthfuls, unlatch, scream, scratch me, push away and repeat. It's now impossible to get him to feed for more than about 8 minutes, and he's stopped gaining weight - in four weeks he's dropped from the 25th centile to below the 2nd, and some weeks has lost weight. I've taken him to the local NHS breastfeeding clinic a few times, and his latch and position has been judged ok. They also looked at his tongue and he's apparently not tongue tied. However nobody has offered me any practical help with the issues. The GP thought possible reflux and has put him on ranitidine, but it's not making much difference. The HV has suggested block feeding (which he won't tolerate, as he'll only do more than 5 minutes if he can have both sides) and compression which has made no difference. I'm as confident as I can be that supply is not the issue - when he kicks off there is clearly still milk there, and I've been expressing to maintain it.
Frankly I'm at the end of my tether and considering giving up - I was expecting that by now it would have got easier, and instead it's more difficult every day. I don't want to though, and was wondering if anybody could suggest anything else I can try?