Urgent Help - baby won't soothe or feed

[babyinmyarms]

I don't know what to do - 15 week old baby has been crying since 5am an barely slept in the night.

She won't feed but I don't feel like I have much breast milk. She has never fed from a bottle.

I have a terrible cold so it may be affecting my production or maybe she DD has my cold. I think she may e teething.

What can I do to calm her? She is in a state.

Help please. I'm alone and don't have anyone I ask and I can't think straight.

Any other symptoms? A temperature maybe?

I'd give some calpol. It could be her teeth.

If you've always bf on demand your supply should be fine. I think around this time your supply settles so you don't feel as full.

Hi thank you for replying.

No other symptoms, her temp is fine.

I will buy some calpol hopefully that will help.

I know this isn't much help but sometimes babies just do this and the reason never becomes clear. Don't panic. Try the usual things like change her, offer breast and any sort of back-patting you use to soothe. Calpol should help too if you think she might have a bit of a bug. It could also be terrible trapped wind - gripe water we find works and letting her sick your finger might soothe.

My DS is a bit younger and he gave us a terrible fright the other night with something similar and it turned out he needed an enormous burp.

Any sign of a temperature, rash or other cause for concern I would get her to the GP just to be on the safe side. Hope she calms soon

Don't panic, my DD did the same thing at 8 weeks, the GP thought she was fighting off a bug that was going round.

I went back to basics with her, I got on the bed and we had lots of skin to skin. As others have said, your supply will have settled now so you shouldn't get that full feeling but you will have milk!

Oh you poor thing. Try to relax a bit - my DS always picks up when I'm stressed and gets extra fussy.
As suggested above, get into bed and try to feed and sleep and chill.
Hope she calms down soon.

Thank you all. Would you believe she is now fast asleep on the bed, limbs all akimbo without a care in the world.

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I'm glad she's ok. You get some rest now!

I'm a very experienced mum but my dd 13 weeks was so unsettled yesterday. For hours she wouldn't feed propley, crying & irritated. Eventually u put her in her car chair, she feel asleep with abit of rocking.

I not u!

Was about to say she sounds overtired and needed to get to sleep any way you could. Glad she's sleeping hopefully she'll feel herself when she wakes.

I'm so pleased she's sleeping, they do like to worry you don't they :)