Hi!

Could be a number of things really. The most obvious thing would be
positioning. Are you making sure you don't have your hand on the back
of his head? Little babies can think each finger is a nipple and
frantically try to turn towards them if they are on the back of his
head.

Colic could be another thing, my little boy had that. He would burp
beautifully, but he still had colic and there was pretty much nothing
other to do than stick it out. The drops didn't really work on him,
gripe water did, but you have to wait until they are 1 month old for
that.

Your milk might be coming down to fast for him, so maybe latch him off
and give it a minute then try again.

It's not really advisable to alternate between breast and bottle in
the first month or so, as it requires different sucking mechanisms and
babies can get a bit confused as to what's what. When I left my
little boy with a childminder for the first time, he was completely
unable to suck from a bottle, bless him. I was really worried that he
would not be able to take in any fluids whilst I was out, but it
turned out fine. He was able to drink out of a sippy-cup, if aided,
straight away, as long as it wasn't milk. He blatently refused to
drink any milk that wasn't mine basically.

One other thing it could be is that he's not thirsty at all, but just
wants to suck for comfort, and then finds that milk comes out when
he's not really in the mood. Does he strike you as hungry? Because
you could just try giving him different kinds of comfort (singing,
dancing, cuddling, craddling, etc...) instead.

All the best, let me know how you get on and try not to be in tears,
it will only make things worse, because he can feel what you feel!

-xxx-
Jolande

On Sep 4, 4:20 am, "Numama" u37149@uwe wrote:
I have a question. My baby is 3 weeks old and until a few days ago has been
nursing beautifully. In the past couple of days, he has been struggling and
fussing after a few seconds of nursing. I have heard that babies can get
frustrated that milk is coming to quickly so I've tried taking him off and
pumping and putting him back on and he still follows the same pattern of
sucking/fussing. I have been trying to work on pumping my milk and
introducing a bottle occasionally with him since I am absent from him for a
couple hours during the day. Could this be causing too much milk to come in
and causing him to do this pattern? He does the same thing on the bottle as
well. Also, he seems to do it more in the evening and usually does fine
during the day. I have been burping him regularly as well to see if it's gas
and he'll burp but still do the same thing once he's on the breast again.
Help! We are both often ending in tears these days...