Why, *in this particular case*, is the clicking noise a problem? Barbara
Fletcher has said that breastfeeding has been painless for the past 11 days
(since day 10), and that the weight gain is "fine". She does not report
that the baby is distressed.
My daughter, born at 39 weeks, now 5 and a half and still nursing once a day
at bedtime, made a clicking noise when she nursed for the first 6 or 8
weeks, possibly more, of her life. I did start off with sore nipples, true,
but this was completely gone by the age of three weeks, and the clicking
persisted at least a month longer. (No one was ever able to figure out what
caused the clicking or how to correct it.)
She also gained extremely well in the first month (day 5: 2 oz./60 gm over
birth weight, days 5-12: gained 12 oz/350 gm, days 12-19: gained 15 oz./430
gm, days 19-26: gained 11 oz./300 gm; cumulative total of 2 lb. 8 oz./about
1.1 kg in the first 26 days) and very well thereafter, as well - exclusively
on breastmilk - so weight gain was never an issue. (I must pause to note -
my homebirthed baby never "officially" registered any weight loss, although
I suspect she had a small weight loss initially - mostly due to the passage
of meconium, I suspect - and had exceeded her birthweight of 7 lbs. 4 oz. by
day 5, as you can see. She also nursed 20 to 30 times a day - yes, as
neurotic new parents, my husband and I did keep track of *everything* for
the first few weeks. We laugh about it now, but I see it as a valuable
record of what is one model of normal. Actually, to be completely accurate,
she probably nursed 35 to 40 times a day; we decided to count any nursing
session that started within a half hour of the start of the previous one as
only one episode, rather than two. And yes, I believe that my small breasts
also have a small storage capacity, because my second child also nursed
*very* frequently, and I would say that neither of them were rushed in any
way at the breast.)
Anyway, I digress . . . back to the clicking noise - if it ain't broke, why
fix it? I do understand that if this noise is associated with poor or
questionable weight gain, or distress in the mother or baby, that it needs
to be corrected, per Barbara Wilson-Clay's post, but in this case . . .?
Barb Strange
RN, IBCLC, BSc, LLB
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