u/Remote-Party-1123

Hi, I have a little baby boy who will be 3 weeks tomorrow. We’ve been dealing with no sleep since the day he was born and I know that’s typical, but over the last week he’s developed the symptoms below. He’s exclusively breastfed. I have cut out dairy starting today in case it’s CMPA (my brother & niece both had CMPA) & he has a doctor’s appointment tomorrow morning. Any advice????

Sharp sudden Screaming in sleep
Crying while Trying to poop (able to pass gas though)
Constantly wanting to nurse (can nurse for over an hour and still want more, gaining 44g a day on average)
Never sleeps more than an hour, ONLY consoled when nursing
Dry/red skin, always having to lotion
Screams like he’s in pain in car seat
Bright green stool
Always hot/red, no fever
Constant sneezing
Constant hiccups, even when kept upright after eating
Dark skin around eyes
Rash on bottom, tried diaper cream

Sleep. How.

My husband gets 12 weeks off of work (extremely thankful) and can break it up throughout the year. He took off a month since our daughter was born, and he goes back next week (he’s saving the rest for throughout the year). Oh yeah and he works night shift. 😵‍💫

Our baby will not sleep more than maybe 1.5 hours through the night. I’ve been waking up to breastfeed (baby hates bottles and has horrible gas no matter what bottle we’ve tried) but he’s been changing all the diapers and taking her into the living room whenever he can to calm her down and let me rest, and I do vice versa for him when he can’t stay up any longer. I am EXHAUSTED. I was having some baby blues that got better…but this long term sleep deprivation is really getting to me mentally. I have started to break down crying anytime my baby wakes me up.

How in the world am I going to be able to handle him going back to work? I accidentally fell asleep with the baby in the recliner the other night and it scared me to death. I don’t have a mom/any other help that can come during the night. I’m worried him going back to work and me being solo all night it going to break me. My husband is also cleaning, cooking all my meals, doing all the laundry, and truly keeping me afloat. Oh yeah, and she screams to the point she quits breathing in her car seat so I’m terrified to drive anywhere with her alone.

Just sad because I’m trying to enjoy these newborn times…but I’m finding myself just surviving. Any advice?

I have a 2 week old baby boy. For almost 5 days now he has been “cluster feeding” I guess. I can’t go more than 30 minutes almost without feeding him. At night we get maybe hour-2 hour long stretches and he wants to feed. I try to keep him up and eating by tickling him or changing his diaper halfway through the feed, but sometimes he just wants to sleep there or the comfort.

We saw a LC yesterday and she said he is gaining 44g a day and we might be overfeeding him. I was doing bottles of pumped milk at night and when we are on the go, but mostly breastfeeding. I was afraid he wasn’t getting enough!! She told me to keep him active and awake/eating for 30 minutes, then hand him to my husband for 10 minutes, and if he’s crying then he can go back and feed another 30 minutes on me.

We started this today and it’s been awful. About an hour ago he finally cracked and started crying to the point he was purple and holding his breath. I was worried it was maybe gas or something but no gas exercises helped and he had a large dirty diaper during the fit. I finally just popped him on the boob and he immediately calmed down. He’s now laying on me asleep. It absolutely broke my heart seeing him that upset.

What do I do? Just keep following his hunger cues? He’s well above birth weight now. I think by doing bottles/BF maybe I was over feeding, but I’m ONLY exclusively breastfeeding now. Any advice?

I have a 2 week old baby boy. For almost 5 days now he has been “cluster feeding” I guess. I can’t go more than 30 minutes almost without feeding him. At night we get maybe hour-2 hour long stretches and he wants to feed. I try to keep him up and eating by tickling him or changing his diaper halfway through the feed, but sometimes he just wants to sleep there or the comfort.

We saw a LC yesterday and she said he is gaining 44g a day and we might be overfeeding him. I was doing bottles of pumped milk at night and when we are on the go, but mostly breastfeeding. I was afraid he wasn’t getting enough!! She told me to keep him active and awake/eating for 30 minutes, then hand him to my husband for 10 minutes, and if he’s crying then he can go back and feed another 30 minutes on me.

We started this today and it’s been awful. About an hour ago he finally cracked and started crying to the point he was purple and holding his breath. I was worried it was maybe gas or something but no gas exercises helped and he had a large dirty diaper during the fit. I finally just popped him on the boob and he immediately calmed down. He’s now laying on me asleep. It absolutely broke my heart seeing him that upset.

What do I do? Just keep following his hunger cues? He’s well above birth weight now. I think by doing bottles/BF maybe I was over feeding, but I’m ONLY exclusively breastfeeding now. Any advice?

I have a 2 week old baby boy. For almost 5 days now he has been “cluster feeding” I guess. I can’t go more than 30 minutes almost without feeding him. At night we get maybe hour-2 hour long stretches and he wants to feed. I try to keep him up and eating by tickling him or changing his diaper halfway through the feed, but sometimes he just wants to sleep there or the comfort.

We saw a LC yesterday and she said he is gaining 44g a day and we might be overfeeding him. I was doing bottles of pumped milk at night and when we are on the go, but mostly breastfeeding. I was afraid he wasn’t getting enough!! She told me to keep him active and awake/eating for 30 minutes, then hand him to my husband for 10 minutes, and if he’s crying then he can go back and feed another 30 minutes on me.

We started this today and it’s been awful. About an hour ago he finally cracked and started crying to the point he was purple and holding his breath. I was worried it was maybe gas or something but no gas exercises helped and he had a large dirty diaper during the fit. I finally just popped him on the boob and he immediately calmed down. He’s now laying on me asleep. It absolutely broke my heart seeing him that upset.

What do I do? Just keep following his hunger cues? He’s well above birth weight now. I think by doing bottles/BF maybe I was over feeding, but I’m ONLY exclusively breastfeeding now. Any advice?

My baby is 11 days old. I have been so excited about breastfeeding even before I knew I was pregnant. I have the sweetest little baby boy that was prayed for a long time.

Breastfeeding immediately hurt. The second they put him on me and I tried to feed, there was pain. I absolutely obliterated my nipples while in the hospital. A LC came and tried to help me but they were beyond repair. The midwife prescribed me Newmans cream and I only pumped for the first week while they healed. I was getting more than enough while pumping for him.

I went to a LC appointment last Friday. She got him latched without pain finally and he got 2oz out (he was actually super sleepy this appointment, he usually seems like he gets more). I left feeling confident in exclusively BF again.

I got home and tried to feed him, immediate pain again. I don’t know if it’s because he hasn’t latched in so long or what. I’ve still been breastfeeding him since last Friday and my boobs are on FIRE. If I can push past the first 15 seconds of him latching, I can somewhat handle it. My left boob is literally impossible for him to latch, he just tries to eat his hands.

We went on a short walk today. I fed him 2x on the way to the park (literally pulled over and fed him) and then fed him at the park. Only 10 minutes into the walk, he’s screaming bloody murder and biting at this hands. I lost it. I’m walking back to the car with this crying screaming baby, while I’m also crying myself. He CONSTANTLY wants to be fed. My boobs hurt so bad. If he’s not on my boob or asleep, he’s screaming. I knew breastfeeding could be hard, but it’s taking a toll on me.

Any advice? Do I go back to pumping only until I see my LC again this Thursday? I literally dread feeding my child and I am really beating myself up about it. Has anyone had a similar experience and ended up successfully breastfeeding?

Gotta pump and dump my creature comforts 😂

Hi!

I had my first baby, a little boy, this past Thursday night. I am pretty dead set on breastfeeding so I just stuck him on the boob and thought that was it.

Nope.

I finally got to see a LC at the hospital before we left and she was like yeah his latch has damaged your nipples, and I go tomorrow to get a compound prescription made nipple cream to hopefully help. She showed me how to fix his latch and said he had a very strong suction, but the damage had already been done.

I’ve been strictly pumping and able to get enough to keep little man full, but I REALLY wanted to exclusively breastfeed. Is there hope he still will be able to? I’m already annoyed with pumping and the bottles but the pain while feeding him was unbearable.

Hi!

I had my first baby, a little boy, this past Thursday night. I am pretty dead set on breastfeeding so I just stuck him on the boob and thought that was it.

Nope.

I finally got to see a LC at the hospital before we left and she was like yeah his latch has damaged your nipples, and I go tomorrow to get a compound prescription made nipple cream to hopefully help. She showed me how to fix his latch and said he had a very strong suction, but the damage had already been done.

I’ve been strictly pumping and able to get enough to keep little man full, but I REALLY wanted to exclusively breastfeed. Is there hope he still will be able to? I’m already annoyed with pumping and the bottles but the pain while feeding him was unbearable.

I know it works. I’m 39w4d and I just think it’s HILARIOUS the type of people who have been like “go get some girl”. Like my little sister’s friends mom, my Pentecostal aunt, my GRANDMA. I’m a very private person but obviously everyone knows how this baby got in there, but daggum 😂😂😂😂 I just think it’s funny haha

Just got the one from Costco and would love to replace my ninja toaster oven that is quite literally a fire hazard I’ve used it for so long lol