[KimberlyFrye]

I have a 3.5 month old baby boy who has started sometimes crying and pulling away while nursing. He is exclusively breast fed. He is generally a happy boy and has been gaining weight well (16lbs now). He does not do this at his night time (he usually wakes up once during the night to feed but sometimes sleeps through from 7PM to 6AM) or his early morning feedings. He did it today at his feeding around 11:30AM and does it sometimes in the afternoon and evening as well. He will latch on and will start to suck and then after a couple of minutes (2-5), he will pull away and cry. I offer him the other breast and he will suck again for a couple of minutes and then pull away and cry again. It is a very loud scream - in fact the loudest and hardest he has screamed since he was born. It normall takes him 2-3 minutes to calm down and then he's fine. He does not go back to the breast and he waits to eat until his next feeding. He's done this before his bedtime feeding several times and it doesnt make him wake up any earlier to eat during the night. I burp him regularly while feeding so I don't think it's gas and he doesn't have a spitting up problem. He does spit up occassionally but not after every feeding. It seems worse when he hasn't had a bowel movement in a while. Any thoughts? Your help is much appreciated. I am at a loss for what's going on and I feel terrible. Thanks.

[Clairebell29]

I have a 3.5 month old baby boy who has started sometimes crying and pulling away while nursing. He is exclusively breast fed. He is generally a happy boy and has been gaining weight well (16lbs now). He does not do this at his night time (he usually wakes up once during the night to feed but sometimes sleeps through from 7PM to 6AM) or his early morning feedings. He did it today at his feeding around 11:30AM and does it sometimes in the afternoon and evening as well. He will latch on and will start to suck and then after a couple of minutes (2-5), he will pull away and cry. I offer him the other breast and he will suck again for a couple of minutes and then pull away and cry again. It is a very loud scream - in fact the loudest and hardest he has screamed since he was born. It normall takes him 2-3 minutes to calm down and then he's fine. He does not go back to the breast and he waits to eat until his next feeding. He's done this before his bedtime feeding several times and it doesnt make him wake up any earlier to eat during the night. I burp him regularly while feeding so I don't think it's gas and he doesn't have a spitting up problem. He does spit up occassionally but not after every feeding. It seems worse when he hasn't had a bowel movement in a while. Any thoughts? Your help is much appreciated. I am at a loss for what's going on and I feel terrible. Thanks.

[gruffalo]

I have a 3.5 month old baby boy who has started sometimes crying and pulling away while nursing. He is exclusively breast fed. He is generally a happy boy and has been gaining weight well (16lbs now). He does not do this at his night time (he usually wakes up once during the night to feed but sometimes sleeps through from 7PM to 6AM) or his early morning feedings. He did it today at his feeding around 11:30AM and does it sometimes in the afternoon and evening as well. He will latch on and will start to suck and then after a couple of minutes (2-5), he will pull away and cry. I offer him the other breast and he will suck again for a couple of minutes and then pull away and cry again. It is a very loud scream - in fact the loudest and hardest he has screamed since he was born. It normall takes him 2-3 minutes to calm down and then he's fine. He does not go back to the breast and he waits to eat until his next feeding. He's done this before his bedtime feeding several times and it doesnt make him wake up any earlier to eat during the night. I burp him regularly while feeding so I don't think it's gas and he doesn't have a spitting up problem. He does spit up occassionally but not after every feeding. It seems worse when he hasn't had a bowel movement in a while. Any thoughts? Your help is much appreciated. I am at a loss for what's going on and I feel terrible. Thanks.