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Normal for 7 week old?
This has been happening on and off for about a week and a half now, but
today it was for every feeding since we got up this morning. My DD (7 weeks) will act hungry and I will latch her on and start to feed her. Every thing will be good for a few minutes (about 3 or 4), then she will start to cry and scream. I burp her and calm her down, and try to latch her back on, but she will suck a few times and then start to cry again. This continues until either she gets sleepy enough to latch on and eat for 10 minutes, or she falls totally asleep. We have tried different positions (cross-cradle, football, side lying) all with the same result. She is having wet and dirty diapers (although she is having a few green stools here and there), and the last time I had her weighed, she was gaining weight just fine (8lbs2oz at birth, 10lbs15oz at 5 weeks, 6 days). She seems to be healthy, she is busy cooing and smiling at her toy right now. I brought this up at her 6 week WBV and the doctor seems to think she was just getting too much air and suggested simethicone (sp?) drops. We have been using them about 4 times a day since last Tuesday. She does seem to be passing more gas, but the crying and screaming is continuing. I actually broke down and went and bought her a pacifier today, to see if she was confusing comfort sucking with eating and getting mad when she got milk. She took to the pacifier swimmingly. It made me cry to see her sucking on a piece of plastic when just a few seconds earlier she was screaming at my breast. I just don't know what to do for her, or even if there is anything I can do for her. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Stacey Mom to DD, October 17, 2003 |
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Normal for 7 week old?
Gorgon Park wrote:
This has been happening on and off for about a week and a half now, but today it was for every feeding since we got up this morning. My DD (7 weeks) will act hungry and I will latch her on and start to feed her. Every thing will be good for a few minutes (about 3 or 4), then she will start to cry and scream. I burp her and calm her down, and try to latch her back on, but she will suck a few times and then start to cry again. This continues until either she gets sleepy enough to latch on and eat for 10 minutes, or she falls totally asleep. We have tried different positions (cross-cradle, football, side lying) all with the same result. She is having wet and dirty diapers (although she is having a few green stools here and there), and the last time I had her weighed, she was gaining weight just fine (8lbs2oz at birth, 10lbs15oz at 5 weeks, 6 days). She seems to be healthy, she is busy cooing and smiling at her toy right now. I brought this up at her 6 week WBV and the doctor seems to think she was just getting too much air and suggested simethicone (sp?) drops. We have been using them about 4 times a day since last Tuesday. She does seem to be passing more gas, but the crying and screaming is continuing. I actually broke down and went and bought her a pacifier today, to see if she was confusing comfort sucking with eating and getting mad when she got milk. She took to the pacifier swimmingly. It made me cry to see her sucking on a piece of plastic when just a few seconds earlier she was screaming at my breast. I just don't know what to do for her, or even if there is anything I can do for her. Any help would be appreciated. I can't really offer any help except to say that I go through this same thing. He'll go through the screaming at the booby thing for a few days and then stops and happily nurses for a couple days and then goes back to screaming for a couple more. We just got over a particularly bad few days around Thanksgiving where the only way I could get him to eat was to rock him to sleep and then latch him on. My latest theory is that it's gas. It seems that these spells happen around the same times that he has really bad gas. I have way too much milk and a pretty forceful letdown and I think that contributes to the gassiness. I give him gas drops and grip water pretty regularly, but I'm not convinced it helps. Manda |
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Normal for 7 week old?
I have that problem sometimes. The gas drops have helped. I also sometime
just let the milk drip a little when she pulls away, until it slows own and isnt choking her. My 7 week old has gotten into the habit of latching on, getting the milk flowing, then pulling away and just letting it pool on her lips and she LICKS it up. "Gorgon Park" wrote in message ... This has been happening on and off for about a week and a half now, but today it was for every feeding since we got up this morning. My DD (7 weeks) will act hungry and I will latch her on and start to feed her. Every thing will be good for a few minutes (about 3 or 4), then she will start to cry and scream. I burp her and calm her down, and try to latch her back on, but she will suck a few times and then start to cry again. This continues until either she gets sleepy enough to latch on and eat for 10 minutes, or she falls totally asleep. We have tried different positions (cross-cradle, football, side lying) all with the same result. She is having wet and dirty diapers (although she is having a few green stools here and there), and the last time I had her weighed, she was gaining weight just fine (8lbs2oz at birth, 10lbs15oz at 5 weeks, 6 days). She seems to be healthy, she is busy cooing and smiling at her toy right now. I brought this up at her 6 week WBV and the doctor seems to think she was just getting too much air and suggested simethicone (sp?) drops. We have been using them about 4 times a day since last Tuesday. She does seem to be passing more gas, but the crying and screaming is continuing. I actually broke down and went and bought her a pacifier today, to see if she was confusing comfort sucking with eating and getting mad when she got milk. She took to the pacifier swimmingly. It made me cry to see her sucking on a piece of plastic when just a few seconds earlier she was screaming at my breast. I just don't know what to do for her, or even if there is anything I can do for her. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Stacey Mom to DD, October 17, 2003 |
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Normal for 7 week old?
"Gorgon Park" wrote in message ... This has been happening on and off for about a week and a half now, but today it was for every feeding since we got up this morning. My DD (7 weeks) will act hungry and I will latch her on and start to feed her. Every thing will be good for a few minutes (about 3 or 4), then she will start to cry and scream. I burp her and calm her down, and try to latch her back on, but she will suck a few times and then start to cry again. This continues until either she gets sleepy enough to latch on and eat for 10 minutes, or she falls totally asleep. We have tried different positions (cross-cradle, football, side lying) all with the same result. She is having wet and dirty diapers (although she is having a few green stools here and there), Is green bad? I hope not. My DD has plenty of green. and the last time I had her weighed, she was gaining weight just fine (8lbs2oz at birth, 10lbs15oz at 5 weeks, 6 days). She seems to be healthy, she is busy cooing and smiling at her toy right now. I brought this up at her 6 week WBV and the doctor seems to think she was just getting too much air and suggested simethicone (sp?) drops. We have been using them about 4 times a day since last Tuesday. She does seem to be passing more gas, but the crying and screaming is continuing. I actually broke down and went and bought her a pacifier today, to see if she was confusing comfort sucking with eating and getting mad when she got milk. She took to the pacifier swimmingly. It made me cry to see her sucking on a piece of plastic when just a few seconds earlier she was screaming at my breast. I have wondered if some babies did not just want to suck. You always hear about how breastfed babies do not overeat. But some babies like to suck more than others, and you always get SOME milk. Sorry you're bummed. I just don't know what to do for her, or even if there is anything I can do for her. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Stacey Mom to DD, October 17, 2003 I wish I had some advice for you. Would sympathy do? Sorry. S |
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Normal for 7 week old?
"Stephanie and Tim" wrote Is green bad? I hope not. My DD has plenty of green. Green is not necessarily "bad" but is an indication sometimes that baby is not getting enough hindmilk (the thicker higher calorie stuff). This can happen for several reasons, overactive/forceful letdown is one, switching breasts too soon is another. There's a bunch of others but I can't think what they are right now! The *problem* with this, is that some babies don't gain enough weight, or they'll nurse more because foremilk is not as filling.... |
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Normal for 7 week old?
"Gorgon Park" wrote Thanks for the advice, CY. I tried pumping off the first let down before feeding her this morning and pumped an ounce before each feeding (I only feed from one breast at each feeding). I also tried unlatching her if I heard her gulping, but that also makes her mad. How long did it take you to sort out this problem with your baby? I am wondering how long it should be before I start to see an improvement for her. It was quite difficult for me to sort this problem out as I did not have all the knowledge and experience I have now. I did get some good advice about feeding against gravity but this is not the most comfortable way to nurse, so I was not always nursing this way. Having said that, by the time she was about 3 months old it naturally resolved itself as my milk supply had regulated and her mouth was bigger. It's no fun while you are going through it. I would say to give it about a week and if you have not seen improvement by then, consult with an IBCLC. It is SOOO worth the money (in my area, about $50-$75 an hour). Also, any ideas how to gracefully nurse in public if I have to let the first let down spray off into a towel? It isn't the most discreet solution! LOL. I would heartily recommend a sling to nurse in, in public. This way you can discreetly tuck a towel in between baby and breast and nobody would be any the wiser. Also, I found in the early days it was much easier to find a dressing room (or in big stores like Nordstrom they have armchairs and comfy places just outside the restroom area - I think they are called family rooms or similar) to nurse, that way I could make myself comfortable and nurse at will instead of focusing on how to be discreet. Thanks for your help, You're welcome. Stacey |
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Normal for 7 week old?
"CY" wrote in message news:Y17Bb.25319$o9.20742@fed1read07... "Gorgon Park" wrote How long did it take you to sort out this problem with your baby? I am wondering how long it should be before I start to see an improvement for her. It was quite difficult for me to sort this problem out as I did not have all the knowledge and experience I have now. I did get some good advice about feeding against gravity but this is not the most comfortable way to nurse, so I was not always nursing this way. Having said that, by the time she was about 3 months old it naturally resolved itself as my milk supply had regulated and her mouth was bigger. Another month or so of this!?! I guess as long as I know it will eventually work itself out, I can handle anything. Hopefully I can use your experience to make it easier. Thanks again. It's no fun while you are going through it. I would say to give it about a week and if you have not seen improvement by then, consult with an IBCLC. It is SOOO worth the money (in my area, about $50-$75 an hour). Also, any ideas how to gracefully nurse in public if I have to let the first let down spray off into a towel? It isn't the most discreet solution! LOL. I would heartily recommend a sling to nurse in, in public. This way you can discreetly tuck a towel in between baby and breast and nobody would be any the wiser. Also, I found in the early days it was much easier to find a dressing room (or in big stores like Nordstrom they have armchairs and comfy places just outside the restroom area - I think they are called family rooms or similar) to nurse, that way I could make myself comfortable and nurse at will instead of focusing on how to be discreet. Thanks for this tip too. I have a sling, but we haven't tried to nurse in it yet. I guess we will be working on that once we get the screaming a bit under control. Thanks for your help, You're welcome. Stacey |
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Normal for 7 week old?
"Gorgon Park" wrote in message
This has been happening on and off for about a week and a half now, but today it was for every feeding since we got up this morning. My DD (7 weeks) will act hungry and I will latch her on and start to feed her. Every thing will be good for a few minutes (about 3 or 4), then she will start to cry and scream. I burp her and calm her down, and try to latch her back on, but she will suck a few times and then start to cry again. This continues until either she gets sleepy enough to latch on and eat for 10 minutes, or she falls totally asleep. We have tried different positions (cross-cradle, football, side lying) all with the same result. My DS started doing this same sort of thing when he was about 3 weeks old. It was terribly frustrating for me for a while, but I finally decided that it was an I-want-to-suck-but-I'm-mad-to-be-getting-milk type of thing. Similar to yours, he would be fine for a few minutes, but as soon as the milk let down he would get really upset and cry. We really didn't want to use pacifiers, but I finally offered one at 6 weeks and he was totally uninterested in it. I know you're not supposed to schedule babies, but how I handled his "spazzy" nursing was that I wouldn't offer to nurse unless it had been more than an hour since he nursed the last time. If it had been under an hour, he always spazzed out. I think he also got confused a bit and would want to be asleep and wanted to nurse to get to sleep, but didn't want the milk. If he seemed sleepy, I put him in the sling or DH bounced him, instead of nursing, and he would go to sleep right away (no crying). This happened only during the day. At night, he would nurse just fine. Now, DS is 11 weeks old and still has problems with getting milk when he just wants to suck. What he does now though instead of crying and spazzing out, is suck for a little bit and then pop off and let milk run out of his mouth. He will do this indefinitely, so after the first four times or so I tell him that it is time to be "done playing" and do something else with him instead. She is having wet and dirty diapers (although she is having a few green stools here and there), and the last time I had her weighed, she was gaining weight just fine (8lbs2oz at birth, 10lbs15oz at 5 weeks, 6 days). She seems to be healthy, she is busy cooing and smiling at her toy right now. I brought this up at her 6 week WBV and the doctor seems to think she was just getting too much air and suggested simethicone (sp?) drops. We have been using them about 4 times a day since last Tuesday. She does seem to be passing more gas, but the crying and screaming is continuing. I think I have a bit of an overactive letdown, but DS has never had a green stool. He chokes while nursing sometimes and pulls off gasping and spluttering. He then dives right back in! the gas. Sometimes DS nurses oddly when he needs to pass gas--he'll start pulling on the nipple kind of weirdly. I expect that your baby will learn how to cope with both issues soon! Best wishes! -- Em mama to L-baby, 11 weeks nak, oht |
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Normal for 7 week old?
wrote in message ... Gorgon Park wrote: This has been happening on and off for about a week and a half now, but today it was for every feeding since we got up this morning. My DD (7 weeks) will act hungry and I will latch her on and start to feed her. Every thing will be good for a few minutes (about 3 or 4), then she will start to cry and scream. I burp her and calm her down, and try to latch her back on, but she will suck a few times and then start to cry again. This continues until either she gets sleepy enough to latch on and eat for 10 minutes, or she falls totally asleep. We have tried different positions (cross-cradle, football, side lying) all with the same result. She is having wet and dirty diapers (although she is having a few green stools here and there), and the last time I had her weighed, she was gaining weight just fine (8lbs2oz at birth, 10lbs15oz at 5 weeks, 6 days). She seems to be healthy, she is busy cooing and smiling at her toy right now. I brought this up at her 6 week WBV and the doctor seems to think she was just getting too much air and suggested simethicone (sp?) drops. We have been using them about 4 times a day since last Tuesday. She does seem to be passing more gas, but the crying and screaming is continuing. I actually broke down and went and bought her a pacifier today, to see if she was confusing comfort sucking with eating and getting mad when she got milk. She took to the pacifier swimmingly. It made me cry to see her sucking on a piece of plastic when just a few seconds earlier she was screaming at my breast. I just don't know what to do for her, or even if there is anything I can do for her. Any help would be appreciated. I can't really offer any help except to say that I go through this same thing. He'll go through the screaming at the booby thing for a few days and then stops and happily nurses for a couple days and then goes back to screaming for a couple more. We just got over a particularly bad few days around Thanksgiving where the only way I could get him to eat was to rock him to sleep and then latch him on. My latest theory is that it's gas. It seems that these spells happen around the same times that he has really bad gas. I have way too much milk and a pretty forceful letdown and I think that contributes to the gassiness. I give him gas drops and grip water pretty regularly, but I'm not convinced it helps. It helps just to know that I am not the only one, especially in the dark of the night when my imagination runs away with me and I think of all the terrible things that could be wrong! Manda |
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"Nina" wrote in message . .. I have that problem sometimes. The gas drops have helped. I also sometime just let the milk drip a little when she pulls away, until it slows own and isnt choking her. My 7 week old has gotten into the habit of latching on, getting the milk flowing, then pulling away and just letting it pool on her lips and she LICKS it up. I have been pumping off the first letdown today and I will see if that makes a difference. My milk doesn't just drip if she pulls off during the letdown, it sprays everywhere. Once this is under control, I will definately have to have my couch cleaned! "Gorgon Park" wrote in message ... This has been happening on and off for about a week and a half now, but today it was for every feeding since we got up this morning. My DD (7 weeks) will act hungry and I will latch her on and start to feed her. Every thing will be good for a few minutes (about 3 or 4), then she will start to cry and scream. I burp her and calm her down, and try to latch her back on, but she will suck a few times and then start to cry again. This continues until either she gets sleepy enough to latch on and eat for 10 minutes, or she falls totally asleep. We have tried different positions (cross-cradle, football, side lying) all with the same result. She is having wet and dirty diapers (although she is having a few green stools here and there), and the last time I had her weighed, she was gaining weight just fine (8lbs2oz at birth, 10lbs15oz at 5 weeks, 6 days). She seems to be healthy, she is busy cooing and smiling at her toy right now. I brought this up at her 6 week WBV and the doctor seems to think she was just getting too much air and suggested simethicone (sp?) drops. We have been using them about 4 times a day since last Tuesday. She does seem to be passing more gas, but the crying and screaming is continuing. I actually broke down and went and bought her a pacifier today, to see if she was confusing comfort sucking with eating and getting mad when she got milk. She took to the pacifier swimmingly. It made me cry to see her sucking on a piece of plastic when just a few seconds earlier she was screaming at my breast. I just don't know what to do for her, or even if there is anything I can do for her. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Stacey Mom to DD, October 17, 2003 |
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