Similar issue with my baby. Lactation consultant told me that my milk flow is too slow and baby isn’t patience enough to do the hard work (suck strongly to get milk). During the first week we were feeding her with syringe + finger as dummy and avoid bottle feeding when baby is too cranky for latching. Lactation consultant and PD told us that this would train baby’s muscle to suck properly on the nipple. How you do it is by putting a drop of milk to your pinky finger, get baby to suck your pinky finger up to the finger’s first joint , insert your syringe in to drop more milk to the pinky finger while keep moving your finger forward and backward to train her to suck.
To train her back to latch, we give 1/3 or 1/2 of her feeding portion using syringe method to calm her. After she’s calm enough, we start to let her latch.
Another tip if milk flow is slow like mine, it is advised not to move your baby to other breast when she’s still latching. Reason is once baby began to suck on a breast, the milk flow is gradually becoming faster and baby used up a lot of energy to build up the flow, when baby is moved to the other breast, baby will need to repeat the hard work and if baby can’t get the milk with same or better flow compare to the previous breast it will tend to get cranky. On the next feeding time, you can get her to latch on the other breast.
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