Sarah125
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I'm a bit confused at the moment.
My daughter is nearly 6 weeks old. She feeds often - every 1.5 hours usually then maybe every 2 hours at night, sometimes 3 if I'm lucky. They are usually short feeds.
From about 5 weeks old she seemed to be in pain when she feeds and afterwards. She sometimes spits up and sometimes vomits but not every feed and no more than I think would be normal for a baby?
At the beginning of breastfeeding I have a very painful letdown (it's not as bad now as it was but still a sharp tingly feeling), sometimes my LO chokes and gags and pulls off the breast. When this happens milk often sprays out and I have to stop it with a muslin.
She is really fussy at the breast, more-so in the afternoon/evening. She pulls on and off and hits it and screams at it. And when I try to burp her she goes all tense and arches her back. She burps about half of the time but this seems to make no difference to the crying.
It seems to help feeding her lying down as I noticed when we occasionally bed share. Usually at nights she won't settle in her cot but she settles easily in our bed and there is none of the fussiness at the breast.
In the past few days her poos have become greener and really explosive. They are still exactly the same as her yellow ones with seeds but just greener.
She also seems to have had a cold since she was born. My HV says this is normal but I haven't noticed it in any other babies
She always sounds really congested and it seems to get worse at night.
She also seems to prefer to be in an upright position.
She is putting on weight fine - she was 7lbs 15.5 oz at birth and 10lbs 12 oz at 1 month. The HV and GP seem to fob me off as she is putting on weight
Anyway sorry for the long post, I'm just so confused about what this is and what I can do to alleviate some of the pain she experiences.
Can anyone shed any light on this? all the symptoms of everything seem to be the same
My daughter is nearly 6 weeks old. She feeds often - every 1.5 hours usually then maybe every 2 hours at night, sometimes 3 if I'm lucky. They are usually short feeds.
From about 5 weeks old she seemed to be in pain when she feeds and afterwards. She sometimes spits up and sometimes vomits but not every feed and no more than I think would be normal for a baby?
At the beginning of breastfeeding I have a very painful letdown (it's not as bad now as it was but still a sharp tingly feeling), sometimes my LO chokes and gags and pulls off the breast. When this happens milk often sprays out and I have to stop it with a muslin.
She is really fussy at the breast, more-so in the afternoon/evening. She pulls on and off and hits it and screams at it. And when I try to burp her she goes all tense and arches her back. She burps about half of the time but this seems to make no difference to the crying.
It seems to help feeding her lying down as I noticed when we occasionally bed share. Usually at nights she won't settle in her cot but she settles easily in our bed and there is none of the fussiness at the breast.
In the past few days her poos have become greener and really explosive. They are still exactly the same as her yellow ones with seeds but just greener.
She also seems to have had a cold since she was born. My HV says this is normal but I haven't noticed it in any other babies
She always sounds really congested and it seems to get worse at night. She also seems to prefer to be in an upright position.
She is putting on weight fine - she was 7lbs 15.5 oz at birth and 10lbs 12 oz at 1 month. The HV and GP seem to fob me off as she is putting on weight
Anyway sorry for the long post, I'm just so confused about what this is and what I can do to alleviate some of the pain she experiences.
Can anyone shed any light on this? all the symptoms of everything seem to be the same
Silly HV. 
