Baby won't nurse unless hungry?
The advice I keep getting in AP circles is to nurse baby all the time, booby booby booby, that's all they need; make a bed picnic for yourself, stay in bed for days and just nurse.
But my DS won't do it. He has had a real issue with bfing, too much foremilk at one point, too fast a let down at another and now he just hates to comfort suck when it means he gets milk. He WANTS to nurse to sleep, but unless it knocks him out in the first few minutes, he gives up in frustration and screams. Then he's upset because he wants to suck, won't take a dummy, and can't nurse because it's making him too full.
In the early days, he persevered until he hurled. He did this several times and learned it isn't worth it and now won't do it. The only time he nurses for comfort is overnight - we cosleep and he stays attached pretty much all night, using it as a settling tool for himself. He hurls occasionally through the night because of going past "full". This is gonna do my head in eventually but at the moment it's the least of my worries cos at least he isn't crying and is sleeping/sucking. But through the day for naps and bedtime, he won't have a bar of it.
So we have to use the fitball to bounce him to sleep and he is so sad at the loss of his nursing. He would much rather go to sleep the peaceful way of nursing than bounced to the moon, and my back can't take the bouncing much anymore.
