Baby is never resting between breastfeedings

Hello I think I’m doing something wrong… My baby Isabelle is 27 days old. The breastfeeding was going very well, until few days ago I have introduced the pacifier and I think now my baby has confusion and is not sucking properly. I’m worried that now my breast is calibrating in producing less milk. During the day it does not seem to be an issue, but in the night the baby is less calm, agitated, sometimes refuses the breast, sometimes is sucking wrongly, is whining, so for 2 night I have added a top up of formula. Now I don’t know what I should do and I’m very worried… Should I pass on formula? And how much should I feed? Should I keep as I am already doing? Today she has been latched to one of my breast from 2 pm… I’ve seen milk in her mouth and I’ve changed 2 nappies… she had also a good burp, so she’s actually drinking, I don’t understand what is happening…

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Has she been checked for tongue tie? Is it silent reflux?

Is she showing hunger cues at night before you latch or just waking up fussing? Around a month old some babies start to spread out their night feedings because they get more during the day as they become more effective at getting the milk out. It could be nothing, or it could be a tie or reflux as suggested above. Monitor it, only give the formula if she is super hungry and if it’s only at night she may just not be hungry.

I was excluding tongue tie because we have been dismissed successfully by the midwives and the health care has already seen her, all of them wanted to see me while breastfeeding, how I was latching, keeping the baby and they always have reassured me that I was going not just fine, but greatly. So this is a change happened in the latest days, I feel my breasts more empty but this can be because she’s asking constantly them and I’m breastfeeding on demand… It’s a lot frustrating…

@Claudia not all tongue tie is immediately obvious…sounds like silent reflux too, to me. I would keep her upright for 30 mins after a feed before lying her down. Is she windy? How are her nappies? I would monitor it all as silent reflux can be symptom of something underlying such as CMPA.

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