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Impatient baby!

CapricornPigCapricornPig member
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Every week it's a new thing. LO has been getting 3 bottles per day from her nanny for the last 5 weeks (when I went back to work). She's 6 months and a week. This past weekend, she became very impatient and started screaming 10 seconds after starting to BF because the letdown wasn't happening right away. It usually takes about a minute, 2 max, of her constant sucking to get the flow going, but she kept popping off and screaming her head off, and for some feedings, I had a hard time getting her to stay on long enough to get it going at all, and had to take a break for an hour. Anyone have this problem, and a solution? I'm back at work today, and she did it this morning, and then only BF'd for 5 min. It's frustrating for both of us!

(Note: For the first 4 weeks I was back at work, her BFing went down to 4 min per session, but last week I got her back to an average of 9 min total for both sides, each session. So that was an necessary accomplishment because she only gained 2 oz last month.)
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    Is your nanny familiar with/doing paced bottle feeding? This is really important. You want to make sure that you are using the slowest flow nipples and holding the bottle horizontal to the floor instead of tipping it up and just letting it flow. She should be working just as hard to get milk from the bottle as she does the breast. There's a really good tutorial on YouTube if you search "paced bottle feeding".

    In the meantime, maybe you can try hand expressing a little bit before latching her on so that she gets a little taste of what she's working for. Maybe that will keep her interest long enough to allow letdown. Try some breast compressions as she nurses to keep the flow going and release the fatty hind milk from the duct walls. Switching sides may help too when she gets really frustrated.
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    Thanks - yes, nanny does paced feeding, every ounce she stops and burps LO (who gets really mad). Not sure she's keeping the bottle at the right angle, I'll talk to her about that. We are using Munchkin Latch bottles with the newborn/slow flow nipple. 

    I did try expressing to get things a started, also tried compression during feeding to help, but she was just so mad after 10 seconds, it was hard to get her back on. I switched sides, stood up, placed her upright to take a break from the battle for a while... it was quite a struggle. I even had to just stop for an hour, took her to a restaurant to meet friends for brunch, totally "change the subject" and finally she would latch. There was still a bit of a struggle, but it was better. However we did it all over again in the next feeding. It was exhausting. She seems to be mellowing out a bit today, so hopefully that was just a short-lived phase. 
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