lfp2n
03-05-2004, 03:14 PM
DD was nursing well (4 times a day plus 5 oz of EBM at daycare) and she was eating breakfast and dinner and starting a little lunch at daycare.
Over the last few weeks her appetite has deteriorated, she won't eat much solid food or nurse well. This morning she ate some applesauce, yesterday she ate about 2/3 of a yogurt in the morning and a tablespoon of pasta in the evening. I can't tell you how many other things were offered and refused. Added to this she is nursing very poorly, like maybe a minute or two, and I'm feeling full and pumping a lot more so I know shes not getting much. Over the last couple of weeks the whole eating/nursing thing seems to becoming a fight, shes screaming and fighting and crying and shaking her head, so I felt this was setting up a bad cycle, so now I back off immediately she shakes her head to try not to make an issue of it- OK that stops the crying but somehow I need her to eat more.
The nursing thing is so depressing, I just went to see her at lunch, she hasn't eaten since 9 but she wouldn't nurse. Is she trying to wean, she has to eat something-I just don't know what to do.
Lucy (DD 3/27/03)
Over the last few weeks her appetite has deteriorated, she won't eat much solid food or nurse well. This morning she ate some applesauce, yesterday she ate about 2/3 of a yogurt in the morning and a tablespoon of pasta in the evening. I can't tell you how many other things were offered and refused. Added to this she is nursing very poorly, like maybe a minute or two, and I'm feeling full and pumping a lot more so I know shes not getting much. Over the last couple of weeks the whole eating/nursing thing seems to becoming a fight, shes screaming and fighting and crying and shaking her head, so I felt this was setting up a bad cycle, so now I back off immediately she shakes her head to try not to make an issue of it- OK that stops the crying but somehow I need her to eat more.
The nursing thing is so depressing, I just went to see her at lunch, she hasn't eaten since 9 but she wouldn't nurse. Is she trying to wean, she has to eat something-I just don't know what to do.
Lucy (DD 3/27/03)