Hi

In the last few days our BF adventure has taken a bit of an unexplained sideways steer. DD (almost 4 months) is going through that stage where she is very easily distracted but other than that, she has been only having very quick feeds (excluding her night feed) and pulling off and on. The right side is harder for me to feed her on than the left. She almost seems uncomfortable..........and squeals if I try and put her back on after she has finished. The left side isn't much better. She does stay on this side a bit longer but once she's off - that's it, DONE. I think I make more milk on the left side anyway.

I am back at work so we are doing BF and EBM bottle feeds and feeding on demand. She pretty much feeds every 2 - 3 hours and sleeps through at night.

Quote often when she does come off, she will do a burp or sneeze or something so there does seem to be a reason why she has come off.

Also, yesterday she seemed to barely drink anything at all. I fed her at 6am and it was a relatively quick feed for that time of morning. Then we tried to give her a bottle when she woke at 8am (this is her normal routine to get up and eat) but she wouldn't take any and then she didn't show any hunger signs until 11am when I fed her but it was a 15 minute feed including burps which is super fast for her. Then I tried to feed her again around 2:30pm and she fed for 5 minutes on each side. At 5pm we gave her 90mls of EMB in a bottle and then she had her dinner feed at 6:30pm and slept through until 6am this morning. Previously to this she was doing 45 minute AM BF feed then 4 bottles during the day of about 500mls combined and then a dinner BF.

I am worried she seems to be taking less milk. I am wondering whether she has suddenly gotten heaps more efficient or if something else is wrong. Is this a common thing? We have never had any problems with her weight or anything.

Any help or advice would be really appreciated.