Hi...I hope someone can suggest something to put my mind at rest. My LO is 12 weeks and is gaining weight fine. (She has such chubby legs and wrists!). She is now about 13lb (not weighed recently) and has started being a fussy feeder. She will pull on and off the breast, taking a gulp and stopping, or opening her mouth to latch then when on breast cries and pulls away. Sometimes when she pulls off milk sprays from my breast everywhere! This happened again this morning and so I tried lying down instead (usually feed lying down at night and no problems). She took about 5 minutes feed. (She only ever takes 10 min to feed)
She has been dribbling so much, has slightly red cheeks (i think) and was calmed by calpol and a chew on her fingers this morning!
I don't know if she is having a growth spurt, teething, some pain when fed cradle hold or what....
I've always had a fast flow of milk and she seemed to be coping fine more recently, now this. Although I'm not too worried that she'll begin to lose weight, I am concerned that she's not getting enough milk. She usually wakes once or twice at night still (about 1-2am and 5-6am), does have a dreamfeed (around 10.30), and last week only seemed to wake once at night, about 3-3.30 AND had really long 25min feeds at 6.45 (last feed before bed and at DF). We seem to have gone backwards and have this new problem.....
I feel like I'm always worrying about something!! Any advice....see anything I can work on?
