Hello
This is my first post on here so don't expect much in the way of whistles and bells! (did that work?)
Anyway.......just after some advice really if anybody has had a similar experience to me. My son is 16 weeks old and has been a great little feeder. He was 6 weeks premature but he did learn to latch well and was EBF for 8 weeks (including his first 15 days in NICU). At about 8 or 9 weeks, I introduced a formula bottle for his dream-feed as I needed it to be more than the 3oz I found I was managing to express!
In another few weeks time I introduced another bottle of formula before bed-time and, later, another one at the 11am feed. So I continue to feed him myself at 7am and at 2pm (and I was doing the middle of the night feed but he no longer wakes for that) and he has formula for the other three feeds - 11am, 6pm and 11pm. I still express before I go to bed and use that milk for one of the feeds in the day (half and half with formula) so I am feeding twice and expressing once a day. I know I have less milk (obvious I know!) but it has been plenty previously and he sleeps well and doesn't cry for food earlier so I think he is satisfied with his milk intake. He is also putting on weight well so I'm not worried he's starving or anything like that.
The problem is that he's started to become fussier when I feed him myself now and I am wondering why. Also, having never really been a sicky/windy baby, he is now being a little sick when I feed him. No problems with the bottles and, previously, no problems with me either since we've been half and half (bottle and breast). This is a really recent fussiness/sickiness - within the last week or so really.
Initially I thought he was just being sick as he'd had enough milk (perhaps as I was now feeding him directly less, he was getting plenty and taking a little more than he needed - hence the sick) but I've started to get a little worried now as he arches his back (a la reflux?!?!) and gets a right tetchy mard-a*se on when he feeds with me! It isn't every single time but it's more often than not recently.......
Any suggestions? Does it sound like reflux to anyone else or is that just silly as reflux is a lot worse than a bit of sick?! Do you think it could just be that bottles are easier and he fusses on me as it's harder to get the milk......he has been known to be lazy previously!
Any thoughts welcomed!
Many thanks - is this a bit of a long post....?