Hello! My lovely little DD is 9 weeks today. She had phototherapy for jaundice at 2 days old following a hospital readmission, and had tongue tie sorted at 6.5 weeks. She had very stagnant weight gain and only got back to birth weight at 8 weeks, and has gained this week for the first time (midwives and health visitor didn't seem bothered because she's having good nappies, is a good colour, is not dehydrated etc but she was 91st centile at birth and is now 9th. We've luckily got a really good GP who's now monitoring her).
She's been combi fed since birth while my supply was coming in (and then advised to keep the formula top ups given her v slow weight gain). Managed to keep BFing throughout the whole time even with her tongue tie.
Fast forward to last night - she has been getting increasingly fidgety and fussy the previous days but would latch and have good feeds, but last night she was getting really upset at even being laid into position. What normally would be a 30-40 min feed across both boobs was 3x 3ish mins with expressed milk and formula offered in between when she was too upset to latch on. Today she's refused both boobs all day (think I got ~30 secs at one point but she pulled off and got really cross!).
Nothing has changed (and she necks the expressed milk no bother), her jabs are next week and she's at the tail end of a cold so not currently poorly. I've been pumping when she refuses the boob/at usual feeding times to keep supply going. We're currently doing skin to skin on my chest while we're waiting for her to wake up to start bedtime, and I'm going to keep offering her both with no pressure, but I'm just wondering if anyone has been through the same? Does this sound like a strike or has she just had enough of BF? I'll be contacting our local infant feeding team on Monday and we're at the doctors on Tuesday for her to be weighed again - hope it's not the end of BF after she's managed to keep it going through all the other things so it'd be a shame if this was it now!
Sorry for the essay. TIA x