Forgot how to latch on??? DRIVING ME NUTS!

[kelseyyy]

Here for the past, well week, LO has had trouble latching onto bottle, he will be hungry eating his hands and he will just not latch on, i have to hold the nipple in his mouth slightly until he realizes its there and THEN he begins sucking like mad!! Can someone please tell me why this is and what I can do? And also he has been very hard to feed when he finally does latch on, simply because he will not hold his head still anymore! He goes from left to right and loses the bottle, its hard to keep track of it when his head is moving around all the time! I am going nuts, a feeding takes 45 minutes sometimes and its always so difficult.

 

[purple_socks]

Kian does some really annoying things with his bottles...dunno if this is what ur tslking abt:

Kian sometimes cries like he's straving but then leaves his mouth slack around the teat as if he's not really interested (he lets all the milk run out the side of his mouth and sometimes 'flicks' the teat a bit but thats it). He also flings his head around, rubs his eyes, arches, wiggles, attempts to pull himself up to sitting etc and gardles with the milk thats dripped in his mouth....just generally expressing a wish to stop with the feeding. I've found this seems to happen if he's really tired. Its like hes too tired for being touched and making an effort to drink?! So if i lay him down away from me (he doesn't like being cuddled to sleep...he seems to prefer his space) and put his dummy in and stroke his head or SHHHHH him (both these techniques usually help him drift off) then he'll calm down and will then drink his bottle (or he'll drinft off and drink it in his sleep). If i keep trying to feed him while he's stressing he just gets worse and we end up with a full on cry-a-thon but he'll eventually have it when he's calm and half asleep.

Or annoying bottle habbit no 2: Kian started teething early and when his teeth r bothering him he likes to chew the teat on the bottle (along with anything else that goes near his mouth) which then seems to frustrate him coz he can't drink and chew at the same time. It goes like this...suck suck suck....chew chew chew...cry...i wiggle the bottle around and he sucks for a sec before going back to chewing then back to crying IYKWIM? i find this technique works...swapping the bottle for a dummy (or finger )and letting him chew on that for a few secs, then offering the bottle again. If he sucks for a second but goes back to chewing the teat i swap bottle for the dummy again and repeat until he drinks the bottle properly (it usually only take 2/3 dummy swaps) If however that doesn't work after a few swaps i give up, leave him chewing his dummy and try the bottle abt 5/10 mins later.

i think the key is not to let them get all worked up and don't try to force feed them.

maybe if nothing works u could try a different shapped teat/bottle.

Hope that makes sense x

 

[xTaylorsMummy]

iv only just read this, and realised it sounds like my bubba! today hes been so over tired and wingy for a bottle, but he messes about so much and takes an oz and then an hour later wants anougher one =/. Last night i just left him to take what he wants and when i went to wind him he threw up everywhere, his eyes to big for his belly! hes very greedy lol

 

[kelseyyy]

Thanks!

Purple_socks, that sounds just like Aidan! Both annoying bottle habit one AND 2, as my LO has also started teething early as well (at 3 months) It is becoming quite frustrating. LO will latch on for maybe 3 or 4 seconds and then lose interest? He also wipes his eyes, arches his back, and if you try to put the nipple completely in his mouth he starts to cry