Hi all, I have an 8 week old daughter who is EBF. We had some latch issues in the beginning with soreness but used nipple shields for a few days then straight back to without with seemingly no issues. However, she lost 4.8% of her birthweight and was slowish to regain it (day 17).
Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago and she is constantly fussing at the boob and doesn't seem to be taking a full feed. She also has lots of griping pains even if we wind her lots during and after feeds. She also squirms and arches her back during feeds and cannot sleep on her back so tends to sleep on my chest which I know is not good. Shes had her 6 week check at 7 weeks and had dropped from just above the 25th percentile to just above the 9th. She was 7lb 10oz born and was only 9lb 1oz at week 7.
Lately she cannot sleep in the day, constant crying (dont know if its pain or overtiredness related). We tried everything yesterday 2x walks, a drive, rocking, the sling (she slept for 1 hour in it). By 5:30 she was so tired so I took her up to where her bed is in our room. It took until 10:30 to get her to sleep which involved constant crying (sounded in pain) belly was gurgling, you could hear it it was so loud. I finally got her to sleep and as soon as she was asleep her bottom end exploded with lots of farts and a greenish tinted poo. She is disinterested in feeding and only having short feeds. She went 8 hours overnight with no feeds (2 hours of disinterest and eventually 6 hours sleep). She had a feed at 4am and went back to sleep and a short one this morning about half 6 and has gone back to sleep on me for a bit.
I have been in contact with the infant feeding team for possible posterior tongue tie. But I am away on holiday tomorrow for my sons birthday which is today. I've taken her to the doctors who said to speak to infant feeding team. We ended up ringing 111 last night who said she needed to be seen and booked an apt for 12:30 by which time she had settled and I didn't want to disturb her.
Its been weeks of not sleeping and constant crying, I dont know how to fix it for her.
She also had her jabs on Thursday including the rotavirus and gastroenteritis one.
Does this sound like purely a feeding issue e.g. tongue tie or foremilk/hindmilk imbalance? Or something medical such as a cows milk allergy/intolerance or reflux? Or is this just normal breastfed baby behaviour and will it pass?
I'm beside myself, im barely eating as dont have time as I have spent the last few weeks walking or rocking her and I am worried.
She was such a happy baby, ate, slept and pooped pretty much in that order and never cried. Where has my happy little girl gone?
Would she be happier on formula? Am I doing something wrong? Any advice would be greatly appreciated 