Clicking on bottle and boob

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Our 8 week old has started to make a clicking noise at both the boob and bottle over the last few days. He’s also begun gagging at the bottle teat. We feed him expressed breast milk mainly and I nurse him directly a few times a week due to constant nipple pain. I want the doctor to swab the nipple for thrush as I also have shooting pains through both breasts. Baby doesn’t have any white marks in his mouth so nothing obvious pointing to thrush except my pain. Any other ideas for the sudden onset clicking and gagging ?

Has he been checked for tongue tie? My son clicked until he had it sorted and that may explain the sore nipples too. Good luck X

Ask to be checked for tongue tie.

Also in terms of the nipple pain do you have an infant feeding team linked to the hospital, or is there a la leche league near you?

I had pain for the first 9 weeks. Every single feed was excruciatingly painful. I mentally quit 10+ times. We introduced a bottle and pumped once a day in the evening and I noticed being less sore in the middle of the night. She had a tongue tie for the first week and then kept feeding as chomping for a while, I think it just took for her to get bigger to feed better though. I was pain free by week 9 but that included feeding her 8-20 times a day and pushing through the pain then that bottle would give me a good 4-6hr gap for my nipples to heal.

Tongue tie was divided at 3 weeks but it wasn’t a miracle cure unfortunately and the clicking has only started in the last few days.
i have mainly been giving the bottle and only doing a few feeds directly but I know deep down if I want to BF, he needs more practice and multiple feeds a day at the breast

A friend's baby was diagnosed with a loose larynx which made feeding difficult. That baby squeaked as well as clicked

The tongue tie could have reattached. It might be worth having another assessment.

My daughter had clicking too and that was put down to a fast letdown

Can I ask what ever happened with your baby and the clicking?

Sigh! He just grew out of it, no rhyme or reason as to why he did it. Unfortunately like a lot of things with babies, one day they just change and stop doing something. If it’s any use, we noticed he clicked more when tired, and he would sometimes bring up a little bit of sick because he was taking air down with the clicking. Moving up a teat size didn’t help the problem so we stuck with the smaller teat size and rode it out xx