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Refusing the breast

honeydew01honeydew01 member
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Since yesterday DD (16 weeks old) is refusing to eat. When I lay her down to nurse she starts screaming. I think she's teething and her mouth might be hurting. She's drooling, has her two fists in her mouth, very cranky..We've been thinking that she's teething since 2 months old on and off though so I don't know.

I'm afraid she'll lose weight and get dehydrated if this continues? what should I do? I left a message with the nurse, waiting for a call back..

Side note: she does not take a bottle by any means so nursing was the only way to feed her..

 

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Re: Refusing the breast

  • MrsWindyCityMrsWindyCity member
    Has she been sick at all? Any way she could have an ear infection? Honestly, this happened to us a few times this weekend, and I'm not sure why either. I think DS might be teething, too, even though it's so early. But he has a bit of a cold so I worry he has an ear infection since DS1 had them ALL the time and basically just flipped every time he was horizontal. Since he's been nursing fine the last couple days I haven't called the pedi, but we'll see.
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  • GraceyandTroyGraceyandTroy member
    Have you had a pp period yet?  The days leading up to my first one (which was around 3 mos despite EBF) my LO was really cranky and didn't eat well at all.  Once it started, everything went back to normal.  
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  • maroongolfmaroongolf member
    Lots of skin to skin time helped when my LO was on a nursing strike.
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  • honeydew01honeydew01 member
    I took her in to get checked because she was doing the high pitched crying all morning. She's teething indeed....
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