Baby unsettled whilst breastfeeding?

Baby is squirming and moaning when breastfeeding during the day and won’t feed for longer than 5 mins at a time… is this happening to anyone else? Why is this?

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If you’re around the 3/4 month mark it’s a super common fussy phase! They’re distracted by everything and just start being menaces at the breast

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oh wow that’s so accurate 🤣 ‘they pop off to look at the dog and then cry because the milk squirted them in the face’ YEP! 😂 thank you xx

Haha yes I get this quite a bit - apparently my boobs are hilarious so she keeps popping off to smile at me. It would be annoying if it wasn’t so damn cute. I have found those breastfeeding necklaces do help somewhat as it gives her something to grab on to and focus on.

Haha it is adorable when they smile isn’t it ❤️ ooo I’ve never heard of them, I’ll Google them now. Thank you!

That smile is so bittersweet haha. I'm like "concentrate on what you're doing!" but he makes me laugh when he does it. So yes it's happening to a lot of us and feeds have got shorter x

I’ve got about 4 now, one for every outfit! It helps I quite like chunky jewellery anyway so I’ve enjoyed getting them. They’re also relatively cheap too - £12-£20 each, so I’ve had them as gifts too for my birthday and xmas.

My little one does this when he has wind. He’ll go back on when he’s had a burp

Squirming when feeding my little octopus? Oh yes, slapping me, my boob, trying to climb on me, sudden stop to stare at me, oh what's that out the window?, the dog moved, how dare you sneeze mum? 🤣
I'm not sure I'm looking forward to her having more functional hands when she's going to grab my coffee mug 😅

🤣🤣 feeding in public is definitely getting harder for this reason, especially when I’m trying to be discreet 😬😂

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