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EBF FOMO baby making getting out of the house so difficult! Does it get better??

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IntheSpaghetti · 29/03/2025 15:46

Baby is 5 months old, exclusively breastfed and refuses bottles. For the past month she has had extreme FOMO and will refuse to eat, unless we're in a dark, quiet room. She's also a relatively slow eater so I'm spending 30-45 minutes, in our bedroom with the lights off and the curtains drawn, every two hours.

It's making getting out of house so stressful and difficult. We have family from overseas staying and they have lots of sightseeing day trips planned, the first of which was today and it was a shitshow. Even sat in the car with a cover, or a blanket over both of us, she was thrashing around, grabbing at everything and breaking her neck trying to turn to look at every noise. Eventually she just refuses to latch and she ends up hungry, grumpy and overtired.

Is there anything I can do to make this easier? Will she grow out of this? We have flights booked next month (booked before this issue appeared) and I'm nervous she will refuse to eat the whole day. It's making breastfeeding so stressful.

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ProfesoraLou · 29/03/2025 19:50

one of my kids was like that. It was absolutely awful.

It does get better, though, especially when they start eating good quantities of other foods.

224RainandSunshine · 01/04/2025 02:24

Mine was like that at 5 months and we also flew at 6 months!

He refused to breastfeed during the flight for the first 8 hours, he was screaming and screaming. Then during the trip, he ended up reverse cycling because he was so distracted in the day i.e. he woke every 2 hours to feed all night. Nobody on our holiday understood why I was so tired!! They just saw a super happy sociable baby that wanted to play all the time. It was hell. Although weirdly I have lots of good memories of the trip haha.

He's 7 months now and little better in that he will drink what he needs when we're out but only just. He waits to have a big feed at home. The good news is that he is very efficient, eats super quickly now. And he's also dropped a nap so we're on 2 naps now which makes getting out the house much easier.

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