Breast Feeding

My 9 week old keeps pushing her face into my breast and then unlatching and moving her head all around when she feeds. Then she will kind of gag and spit some out like her mouth is full, but when I put her up to burp, she’s still rooting. When is doing then she takes a big gulp and then stops. She also woke up every 2 hours last night and she’s normally usually waking up once a night. Has anyone else dealt with this or know what’s wrong?

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I have the wiggling issue with my boy, it does end up being upper gas with him. Even though she continues to root I would keep trying for a burp for a bit to see if you are able to get anything.

The sleep I cannot relate, it’s been every 2-4 hours with him since birth and he’s 10 weeks now 😅 but I do not think it is an issue. A friend of mine had told me that groups of 3 are typical growing periods (3,6,9 weeks, 3,6,9 months) so she just might need more to eat to support her growth.

My baby girl is 2 months tomorrow and has been doing this for 2 weeks now and the past few days has started laughing when she does it. At first I thought it was gas so I would sit her up to burp and she would scream cry because she was still hungry and wasn’t done. I let her wiggle for a bit and then I will hold my boob between my hand and put it in her mouth and rub her head gently and “shhh” and she calms down and eats. Them playing could lead to them not eating enough during a feed therefore waking to eat more often!

Do you have a fast let down? Maybe it's too much at once? If that's the case you can try hand expressing or pumping a small amount before breastfeeding to lessen the flow.

mine does this, kinda. i have a fast let down so i keep a towel near me. i let her start eating and she’ll pull off once it’s coming out to fast so i’ll put the towel to my nipple and let the fast / squirting milk come out until it’s just a drip. then i’ll put her back on.

as for being hungry, mine is 9 weeks and just the last few days has been waking up to eat every hour as well! i use to have to wake her at 4 hours bc she would wake up too hungry if i didn’t, but now shes waking on her own, rooting. i try to latch her as long as possible, but i just don’t know! maybe there’s some type of 9 week growth spurt or something lol luckily she wakes up, eats and falls back asleep so it’s a pretty easy/quick process.

I have a fast letdown so I know sometimes to pull her off to give her a chance to swallow and breathe a bit. When I know she’s gassy and she’s still kinda rooting and not wanting to be burped, it stick a paci in her mouth and proceed to burp her. When she burps I put her right back on the breast. My girl still wakes up frequently in the night though last night slept longer stretches when I moved her from her bassinet to playpen bassinet. She is pretty long and sleeps unswaddled (she HATED the swaddle, it unfortunately isn’t soothing for her, it’s more distressing than anything) so the bassinet was getting to be very uncomfortable.

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