nursing strike

[mrslefty]

How do you handle these? H has decided he hates the boob. He sees it and starts crying, throwing his head back, screaming. He ate over night but has refused to burse during the day since Friday. He'll take a bottle or spoon feed. He's getting 2...maybe 3 or even 4 teeth up top but looking in his mouth is dangerous
Tell me this will pass quickly!

[dana86]

Are you pumping in the mean time until he hopefully starts back up? Sounds like it could be from teething so I'd keep offering and hope it passes quickly. I think with teething thats oner of the few things that are a pain because you never know how long they will take to pop through and stop being uncomfortable.

[mrslefty]

Yeah, I'm pumping. After a month of supply issues just this week I was starting to be able to pump enough at work and now this. Uhg.
I offer the breast every time but he is actually barely eating at all today.

[mrslefty]

He nursed all night long. All. Night. Long. But as soon as it was light out? Boobs are terrifying! Plus he's being a level 4 clinger.
Nana is coming over to save me.

[jennlin]

have you tried side-lying nursing? when he nurses all night, it helps if you can get some rest.

[mrslefty]

Apr 6, 2015 11:46:29 GMT -5 jennlin said:

have you tried side-lying nursing? when he nurses all night, it helps if you can get some rest.

I do but I'm a really light sleeper so I don't sleep well while he eats.
I'm hoping this will pass soon. It started Friday evening. I thought he was sick too (I had a fever of 102) but he hasnt had a fever. Normally this would be ndb because he'd eat at daycare but I'm in spring break so I'm stuck home pumping and attempting to feed this monster child.

[cdmay]

We had a loooong stretch where he works barely nurse during the day, but would nurse all night long. It coincided with teething and crawling... he didn't want to sit still to nurse, but was hungry and thirsty overnight, and without the excitement if day time would catch up on nursing. Calm, boring, quiet room helped, as did using the nursing pillow or nursing in the carrier.

[mrslefty]

Apr 6, 2015 14:54:48 GMT -5 cdmay said:

We had a loooong stretch where he works barely nurse during the day, but would nurse all night long. It coincided with teething and crawling... he didn't want to sit still to nurse, but was hungry and thirsty overnight, and without the excitement if day time would catch up on nursing. Calm, boring, quiet room helped, as did using the nursing pillow or nursing in the carrier.

I tried nursing in the tula and a ring sling today and...it didn't go well.
At this point if he so much as sees a boob it takes 10 minutes to get him to stop screaming and crying. Jesus. It's like my boobs are the stuff of nightmares!

[cdmay]

That sounds like a bad (or great?!) low budget film

[mrslefty]

B is like "dude do you know how lucky you are that every time you cry you get a boob?"
H still doesn't care.

[jennlin]

Apr 7, 2015 0:31:02 GMT -5 mrslefty said:

B is like "dude do you know how lucky you are that every time you cry you get a boob?"
H still doesn't care.

when bjl was first born, and we were still learning the "hunger signs"...a friend came over and i told him "if she starts licking her lips, let me know"..and he was like "i lick my lips too every time i'm thinking about a boob". boys. lol.

[mrslefty]

So nursing strike over but he doesnt have control of those top teeth yet. OMG OWWWWWWWIE.