Breastfeeding mummas and growth spurt

My boy turned 6 weeks today and I know there's a growth spurt at 6 weeks. Any mummas who breastfeed, have you found baby gets fussy/cries at the breast in the evening and found anything that helps. For the past 2 days, my boy when he feeds between 8-10pm gets super fussy, he'll latch feed and then unlatch and gets fussy and cries when relatching but when relatching he'll have the nipple in his mouth but won't clamp down and latch and act like its not there. I know its normal at this stage but its just stressful for us both. He feeds fine every other time its just the 8-10pm feed this happens with and only started the past 2 days. Any mummas have any tips to help us ride this out?

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Hi Emma, my boy also turned 6 weeks today and I’m experiencing the same thing! Me and my partner take turns in calming him down, burping and then try again to latch. I noticed, for example, last night that my milk wasn’t flowing fast enough so calming him down for a bit on my partner’s chest helped me replenish my supply. I’m also trying to reduce to a minimum anything that could overwhelm him: minimal lights, no sounds but white noise, gentle rocking, avoiding eye contact if he’s too awake.

I believe 6 weeks is the peak for witching hour so it should get easier from here on!

We are now 7 weeks in, and I do feel it has gotten slightly better now. We have found though that from about 7.30 our girl wants down to bed for our bedtime routine. I usually try to hold out until 8.30/9 if I can. We have a routine of going down to bed, getting her ready for bed, sticking a film on, and I feed until she falls asleep around 10 pm. We have noticed that once she is in our room to get ready for bed, she is like a different child. It's like she is telling us she wants to go to bed. My husband even made that comment the other day. I know it means going to bed early, but it's not forever, and only a few weeks ago, bedtime was closer to 12, so things have improved. I can def say even her wanting to be lifted all the time has slightly improved. I have found her crying at the breast for us is usually that she has wind to get out and its hurting her. We started a liquid probiotic for her today. I dnt know if it will help but I have heard good reports on it

Yeah it's normal. I've had 2 days and 2 nights like that. My boy is 5 weeks. Scream at the boob, nipple in mouth and won't latch unless it's been sandwiched squished lol. Arches back and screams more.

What I do to try and avoid us both getting stressed out at 3am is I lay him down on the bed between my legs for a minute and give him his dummy and rub his tummy which he enjoys. Feet tickled works for him too. When he's calmed down we try again.

It gets easier after about 8 weeks or so after the first few growth spurts are out the way. Then it's plain sailing until the 4 month sleep regression 😂🫠

Hang in there xxx

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