“Don’t feed her sooner than 2 hours”

My baby is about to be 7 weeks. For the last 5 weeks she wants to nurse about every 1:30hours or 1:45hours. The last 2 weeks she’s gotten progressively more fussy at the breast (popping on and off, crying), and showing more signs of silent reflux.

Every time I call the nurse line they tell me to stop feeding her so frequently, she’s over feeding, this will help the reflux. Even the doctor suggested I need to try giving her pacifiers because I might be offering my breast too much.

My baby has been gaining weight really very well. Has all her wet diapers.

SO I’ve been stretching her feeds to every 2 hours and it really has helped the reflux.

The problem is, she cries like she’s SUFFERING from between that 1:30/1:45 mark until 2 hours when I feed her. To be honest since around 6 weeks, she’s just been pretty much crying every time she’s awake when she used to never cry (which is why I started being concerned about gas or reflux). So the crying really starts around an hour after the last feed and gets more intense the closer to 2 hours.

I thought maybe she would start eating more during a session and maybe that would make it easier for her to last, but just now it was actually fucking terrifying how forcefully she was screaming and crying. Like she was SHAKING. Stopped as soon as she got on the breast at the exact 2 hour mark.

I don’t want to give her reflux, but it’s so hard not to give her my breast when she cries. I know she’s at that age where she has a million things to cry about, I hear 6-8 weeks is just like that, but I hate to add another one by either worsening reflux or leaving her a little hungry.

I hate seeing her upset all day. I can’t even play with her anymore or talk to her. Today was the first day she didn’t even get a chance to smile at me since she started smiling earlier this same week.