Every so often DS, 11 weeks, goes through a phase of this and it is the most unbelievably frustrating experience that has literally had me walking away and screaming myself. I've left him next door with his sister after the latest episode and have come to ask advice from all you wise MNers.
He's a very big, hungry baby, 99% BF and with a touch of colic-cum-wind. He's not classically colicky but does have tummy gripes not infrequently. DH reckons it might be because he doesn't like going horizontal to feed, but the only way round that is to express and feed him that way on bad days, but oddly enough on these bad days he's been known to refuse EBM and happily take formula - ?? I've given him a handful of formula feeds in his 11 weeks usually when he won't take in nutrition any other way. I have gallons of milk and usually his feeding technique is excellent.
I'll try him again in 5 mins or so. Usually when this happens I go for a walk about the house with him and he calms instantly, then we try again, and sometimes I have to give up completely. Last time he went the best part of 24 hours like this and ended up necking 7oz of formula when he was screaming the house down, was bright purple and wouldn't touch boob but was plainly ravenous.
Any ideas??