Foremilk/wind/green poo question

[ChocolateHobnob]

Hi all,

My 7 week old DD is exclusively BF and has always done yellow poos. No problems with colic, etc, and I've never had pain feeding her. However I have noticed that when I start to feed her on the right breast, milk literally floods out, and she sputters and gulps and pulls away, then back, and when she pulls away the milk fires everywhere. At the end of feeds she has trouble burping sometimes and when she does it can be very loud indeed. She also seems very windy sometimes after a feed from that side. Today she did a green poo. I've been looking this up and it suggests too much foremilk - could this be right? and is this linked to my overabundant waves of milk that come at the start of each feed? I feed from one side per feed, she feeds for between 15 mins to 25 mins, and she feeds during the day roughly every three hours (more in the evening and less during the night). Is the fast milk causing her wind, and can I do anything about it? and is the green poo linked to this/anything to worry about?
Thanks for your advice.

PS: I love breastfeeding. I never thought I would - I worried I'd never be able to do it. But my DD was a star from the start despite crap help in the hospital (overworked midwives) and it has been pure pleasure (other than at 3 am but so would a bottle be at that time!).

Chocolate, maybe you have an over-generous supply? Check archives on mumsnet for this.

Hi Tiktok,

I searched for over-supply, but I'm not sure that's what I've got as I expressed after a feed last night and got 60ml in 10 minutes, whereas the oversupplied on the archives seemed to be filling bottles in minutes. I do think I have fast letdown as sometimes I'm firing across the room even before lo reaches me (this doesn't happen when I express!).

The poo has been yellow since the green one, and I've succeeded in getting her to burp (though she was sick this morning...).

chocolat, not expressing quickly and copiously is not a sign of not having over-supply...if you get me!

I think you have over supply, and occasionally your baby finds it a bit hard to cope with. No big deal, really, as she will manage better as time goes on. You can think about doing the simple things (see archives) to damp down the supply if you want, but if you are coping ok now, then no need to really.

Chucking up is normal in all babies. Not sure what you mean about succeeding in getting her to burp - most babies can burp ok and if they don't it prob means they don't need to. Most cultures in the world don't bother about burps from a baby