My little boy who is now 16 weeks has recently become very difficult to breast feed. It was always a joy and very easy and fast for us but in the last few weeks has descended into chaos.
We can manage a decent night feed of about 15 minutes on one side before he falls asleep, and if he’s being aggy before bed and I need to he will nurse to sleep fine. However, feeding him progressively throughout the day is very stressful. He will feed for between 1-5 minutes fine and then start fussing, looking around, whining and whinging and eventually it gets to him bobbing on and off the boob screaming. The late afternoon and evening feeds are the worse and also impossible to feed him during.
When I take him off the boob - I find I have to because its so stressful for us both to feed - he is then crying inconsolably.
He is a moderately refluxy baby not on any meds. Sometimes a wind will help midway but he cry so much when I try to do this.
When i feed him a bottle of breast milk in the evenings he is fine during but again inconsolable when finishing.
I do have a fast flow to begin with so we recline for this, so I did wonder if he was angry at a slow flow, but if I do breast compressions this only helps so much.
He is also showing teething signs of dribbling, eating his hands and a little pink in the cheek.
Worried about how long this will last and how to get him the milk he needs as calmly as possible.
any thoughts? Sorry such a long post.