Fussiness while drinking

[ChitaShines]

From time to time, my 1-1/2 mo old is really fidgety when I'm feeding her.
She will squirm and arch her back almost during the whole feeding. I bring
her up several times to burp and that doesn't seem to remedy the problem.
Could it be her bowels causing her the distress?

[Nan]

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 23:12:33 GMT, "ChitaShines"
> wrote:

>From time to time, my 1-1/2 mo old is really fidgety when I'm feeding her.
>She will squirm and arch her back almost during the whole feeding. I bring
>her up several times to burp and that doesn't seem to remedy the problem.
>Could it be her bowels causing her the distress?

My 10 week old does this when she's wanting the milk faster than she's
getting ;-)
When she's too fidgety and getting frustrated, we take a short break
and get her latched back on properly.

Nan

[JennP]

"ChitaShines" > wrote in message
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> From time to time, my 1-1/2 mo old is really fidgety when I'm feeding her.
> She will squirm and arch her back almost during the whole feeding. I
bring
> her up several times to burp and that doesn't seem to remedy the problem.
> Could it be her bowels causing her the distress?

I doubt it's her bowels. I know you were concerned about this because of
another post you wrote.

Some babies are just squirmy at the breast. Some get like that because they
aren't getting the milk fast enough (I am *not* saying that it's a
production problem, they are just impatient) or if they get the milk to fast
as in an overactive letdown.

Is she unlatching during the feed? Or is she just squirmy?
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JennP.

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[Leslie]

>Could it be her bowels causing her the distress?
>

When my babies did this, it was a signal that they were about to dirty their
diapers.

Leslie

[Shena Delian O'Brien]

ChitaShines wrote:

> From time to time, my 1-1/2 mo old is really fidgety when I'm feeding her.
> She will squirm and arch her back almost during the whole feeding. I bring
> her up several times to burp and that doesn't seem to remedy the problem.
> Could it be her bowels causing her the distress?

Does she look like she's in pain or upset while she's doing it or is she
just fidgety?