<<Her baby is 12 weeks old and
everything has been going well up to this point
Basically the baby is resisting being breastfed except for the first
morning
breastfeeding- otherwise she cries, stiffens
Mom has started giving a bottle
of formula each day, since the baby will go up to 6 hours without
nursing>>



personal experience to share.  my daughter started this around six weeks
of age, it was as if she was on the verge of a constant nursing strike
from age 6 weeks till about 8 mos.   She would go for hours and hours
without nursing.   I discovered several things:

1)she had no interest in nursing in the traditional nursing positions.
would simply refuse to nurse (by above described behavior), if I was
sitting and holding her in my arms.

2)Sometime around 4 mos I learned that she would nurse in an upright
position, while I was walking.   I would carry her in an upright hold in
the sling (snuggle hold)......loosen the rings to drop her down to
nipple level and nurse her while I walked around the house.

3) She would nurse lying down, on my bed, in my bedroom  (not on other
beds in other house.....not in other bedrooms in our house)  if and only
if she was extremely hungry or tired.

4) She did sleep with me and nurse constantly throughout the night.

It was frustrating b/c there were times when she was clearly hungry by
just wouldn't nurse b/c she was too interested in other things.  The one
time my  dh did give her a bottle of expressed milk at 4 mos, she went
on a real nursing strike b/c she realized there was an option for
getting food and facing out to the world - all at the same time.

I wasn't worried about it....but it was challenging at times.


With a baby that age, going six hours wouldn't concern me a bit as long
as baby was still nursing at night and/or growing and gaining, was happy
and healthy, meeting developmental milestones.    Treating as a nursing
nursing strike would be appropriate.   Offering bottles of formula could
be a step towards the slipperly slope to fully bottefeeding formula.

katherine in atl
sorry about the sub line...i've been deleting a lot, never saw the
original post.....then saw one of the answers but the sub line was
'lactnet digest .........' which drives me crazy.  I couldnt answer and
leave that non-subjectline as the subject line:)

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