Crying at breast
I am at my wits end. I have had so many issues with breastfeeding I can't believe I'm still doing it. My LO is 4 weeks tomorrow.
At the beginning, I had a lot of pain that would last throughout the whole feed. Lactation consultants told me the latch was ok, but I had to start pumping and supplementing (she also wasn't gaining weight) and breastfed less and less waiting for my nipples to heal.
The pain finally started to improve a week and a half ago and I started to BF more - but she couldn't get full off of just me, so I was still supplementing with BM when possible but also formula.
But now my LO is giving me such stress. She'll start breastfeeding fine for anywhere from 5-20 minutes, but then she'll come off and want to latch again. She'll latch for a few suckles but then cry. I'll switch breasts, and the same thing will happens and she'll cry again. Try burping her - but same thing happens after she burps. She'll get all worked up and start crying horribly, won't take the breast anymore and I end up giving her a bottle to calm her and feed her since she's still hungry.
I googled it and kellymom says it's because she's so used to the bottle she doesn't want to wait for my letdown and gets impatient. It says to stop the bottle but it's so excruciating to try to keep trying to BF her when she doesn't want it.
Today I'm pumping and not gonna try to BF because it makes me so depressed.
Has anyone else dealt with this? Did it get better? I'm not sure this is a sign I should just give up. I just want to BF so much, it makes me so sad this has been so hard and that I might have to give up!!
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