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Advice please-distracted 7 month old

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bellamysbride · 17/01/2010 22:32

My ds is breastfed, he also has three pretty good meals a day. The problem is that he just wont feed when we are out and about, only at home in a very quiet room, when he is nearing sleep or has just woken. He will show signs of wanting a feed but then just take a couple of slurps, start looking around and won't latch on again. This means that I feel like I can only go out for a couple of hours at a time, which is quite limiting and a bit isolating. Today we went out to a museum and I had to find a door to hide behind just to get him to drink something!! I had solid boobs by the time we got home as he had had so little. He will only take a couple of sips of water from a doidy cup (he won't take a bottle but that's a another story...) and won't tolerate any kind of shawl to stop distractions.
Any advice gratefully received as this is preventing us getting out and about!

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flibertygibet · 18/01/2010 10:45

Hi Bella..my ds did this around 7 months too. He would start feeding, yell, pull off, latch on, feed, flail around..it was awful! It seemed to be a phase and I put it down to a growth spurt. Just keep trying if you can..maybe try a sippy cup with water in it? he's probably getting all he needs during the other 'quiet' feeds.

He is 7 now and stopped bf at 2.5. He never took a bottle either.

bellamysbride · 18/01/2010 11:57

Thanks fliberty. It has been going on since 5 months now!! It seems like food is just not at the top of his priority list which leaves me looking like a flasher trying to force her poor baby to bf .

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