Hello there
Our three month old baby has just started to reject his mother's breast, which is upsetting her enormously. He was always happy to feed from her breasts, but in the last few days he's been less inclined to feed from her left breast and this evening he's seemed uninterested in both. There's lots of milk in both breasts and she can't work out why he doesn't seem to want it.
Because our little boy fell slightly below the weight our health visitor wanted for him, we have had to use a bottle to give him tops of formula in the evenings, but we have always done that directly after a proper, full feed on the breast - so it's not like the bottle replaced the breast. We've been doing that for around 10 weeks and it didn't seem to have affected how he felt about the breast.
So, I guess we're looking for any reasons why a baby would suddenly start to reject the breast and any suggestions on what we might be able to do about it.
Any help very gratefully received. Thanks,
2007-02-20
16:01:17
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Chris S
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