Peekay - My bubba displays similar problems. She squirms around when she's on the boob and doesn't finish her feed. I'll wait until she gets a poo and then usually by then she has thrown up her feed from pushing so hard. So then I'll have to feed her again.
Her sleep is regularly disrupted by wind pains. She seems to catnap a lot now, where she used to be a good sleeper.
At least twice a day she will get so bad that she will scream for a couple of hours, and nothing will be able to console her. I just lie down with her on my stomach and pat her to sleep as best I can. But then I have to keep patting because if I stop she'll wake up again and start crying!!
We used Infants Friend for a while but now we find that it doesn't really make a difference in terms of her level of discomfort. I have also tried a couple of other colic formulas..
We always burp her as well and she's a champion farter just like her dad...
I don't want to leap to putting her on medications or anything, but I'm just hoping that she'll grow out of it soon
Me, too with oversupply and related issues!
We took to posture feeding, as well as constant sling wearing - keeping him upright, especially after feeds and to get him to sleep, was critical and is probably why the situation didn't escalate in terms of my sanity.
I definitely found the co-sleeping, sling-wearing, demand-feeding, posture-feeding and some foremilk expressing helped alleviate a gut full of my milk from one boob!n It meant that whilst he was very gassy and burpy (and a little chucky when burping), he was not a very 'cry-y' baby. Sometimes he'd cry from it, but it was quickly settled by being thrown into the HAB It took well over 4 months for my supply to settle, and even now it doesn't take much for it to be thrown out of whack again (thinking of DS's present cold and frequent feeding...I'll go back to hard boobs again when he gets better and feeds less...check ticker for his age!)
Feed, play, sleep isn't "the thing babies do" It's a some-what strange western construct of what adults, particularly health professionals want them to do. Most research shows that babies are happiest when babies sleep, feed and play the way they want to feed, sleep and play (well what really IS play for a young baby - hanging out in mums arms or on mums boob, gazing lovingly at her face, pretty much) There's no right and wrong, in particular when it comes to feeding babies.
Regards
Barb
Feed-sleep-play, blurgh! I hate that phrase! We fed, snuggled, fed, snuggled, fed, snuggled - and a lot of the snuggling involved sleep, because snuggling was HAB related! So DS could sleep and I could still do stuff round here
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It took well over 4 months for my supply to settle, and even now it doesn't take much for it to be thrown out of whack again (thinking of DS's present cold and frequent feeding...I'll go back to hard boobs again when he gets better and feeds less...check ticker for his age!)
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