I am at a loss as to how to approach this.
14 week old is exclusively BF, however her weight gain has always been slow. She was 8-15 at birth and at weighing last week was just over 11 lbs. She has never been a hungry baby, her first weeks were spent asleep with me waking her to feed every 2-4 hours (4 hr patch at night), since 6 weeks feeding on demand. This works out at 1.5 hours to a 6 hour patch at night, generally 3 hours. Some cluster evenings also.
Things came to a head over the last 2 weeks. V slow weight gain over a period of weeks eg 1 oz a week. Right I said, I will top up with EBM or formula. She will not take the bottle. Then I tried feeding her every 2 hours. Will not take the breast, only when she wants to IYKWIM. Short feeds but that's her way. Screams and arches her back when I offer the breast, its very distressing. Most evenings sit doing skin to skin, no joy.
I think its a combination of teething and trapped wind and am doing my best to relieve this in her. I don't think it's refulx as she wll lie on her playmat happily. She is wakeful, alert, smiley and chubby. Just not gaining well and not hungry. Has anyone any tips? I always thought you can't go wrong if you feed a baby on demand they will take what they need.