She's beating up my boob...

bunnymama625 · August 2011

We've been weaning off the nipple shield and it's going ok- sometimes she'll go on with nothing, sometimes I need to use the shield for a minute and then switch her off.

The big problem seems to be that no matter how she went on, after about 2 min, she starts fighting my boob, beating it up, pulling off and then desperately trying to get back on-- gasping and punching me the whole time-- after a couple of minutes she gets frustrated and angry and I have to put the shield back on.

I don't have a forceful letdown, and I know she's getting the milk ok- why is she doing this and how can I help her out? It's very frustrating to see her on with a perfect latch and everything suddenly goes to hell

LuH55 · August 2011

How long have u been using the shield? Maybe she's just gotten so used to it? I know when I had this prob it was bc of foceful letdown. It can be so frustrating! We just had to change positions...GL!

heie0008 · August 2011

elisamariaortiz:

The big problem seems to be that no matter how she went on, after about 2 min, she starts fighting my boob, beating it up, pulling off and then desperately trying to get back on-- gasping and punching me the whole time-- after a couple of minutes she gets frustrated and angry and I have to put the shield back on.

My DD has been doing this for almost a week and it is driving me crazy! I read a lot about it on kellymom.com this afternoon. Try reading this:

https://www.kellymom.com/bf/concerns/baby/fussy-while-nursing.html

Plus someone posted a link to this youtube video a while back so I'm going to try that too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJrBRYxDNSE

So at the next feeding my plan is to take away the one bottle of expressed milk she gets each day...turn off the TV while feeding (distractions)...sit in a chair in the corner of the room so she won't get distracted by anyone...do breast compressions...hopefully some of this works for me