my girl has loads of milk and in fact the other day I once  again averted a problem when I realised one of her teats had built up again and was really hard. It is Ok now.
We have 6 puppies 4 weeks old on Friday but she does not seem to want to feed them. She is interested in them but is going and jumping straight out again. She is only really interested in getting her hands on the food we are
weaning them onto. We have tried a couple at a time as we now have separate areas for the pups but it has brought no joy.
Would/should I be worried about this.
She has been worse since we made the separate area to bring them into the kitchen but they were just too isolated where they were.

By the end of the third week, going into the fourth, you should be starting the weaning process - and she knows this.   Some bitches will go as far as to regurgitate their food for their puppies, feeding, going into them and doing this on the floor of the box.   It's gross, but natural.

She's telling you now is the time to introduce them to food, starting with goats milk, warmed, 4 times a day - holding each puppy individually and encouraging it to lap.   Some get this faster than others.   Once they can all do this (and give what's left over at each feed to mum), then you add a good quality puppy food, mixing it with either the goats milk, or just warmed water into a porridge.   And again help each puppy to tuck in.   Once they all can, then you fill a shallow dish and put it on the floor of the box, with mum out of there and with any luck, they'll pile in.   Once they have finished, then let mum back in to clean up!!    And she will probably allow comfort suckling, standing up BUT as soon as she feels the needle-sharp teeth, she will want out again.   And this, the teeth, is why she's not willing to hang around with them any longer.

We'd move our litters from the quiet living room where they spent the first 3 weeks or so, into the kitchen, adding another section to the existing whelping box for more space.   And as most of our litters were born into the better weather, they'd all spend increasing amounts of time outside in the fresh air.   A bit of sun on their backs brought them along by leaps and bounds.

Mum doesn't need to be in with them all the time, and should be completely off them by 6 weeks - all part of the weaning process and necessary so they go to their new homes at 8 weeks, or older, only missing their siblings and surroundings, not mum.

If she's still producing a lot of milk, cut back on her food, especially the protein.    Allowing comfort suckling helps her to offload some of the milk, but nature usually helps her to know they don't need what they have been taking from her, so her milk is scattered naturally.

Yes I did start weaning about a week ago but they have been a bit slow. Some get it but not all.
I think I was probably more concerned about her and the milk build up than them.
The main problem is she is still looking at me as if she is starving, and she is smaller than her pre pregnancy weight which is the better for her as I had been trying to get weight off her,
but at the same time, as she has had some problems with milk build up I am aware she does not need to make more! Generally I find that beyond the stress at the time of birth, this is the most difficult period of
rearing puppies. I will carry on as I am and keep offering food/milk ( I do let her come in and clean up) but that is all she comes in for! The only other thing she still does is clean up their poos still when she gets a chance
and I am trying to avoid this as well but realise it is a natural thing at the moment.

This is the age they start to limit feeding, as pups are being weaned, in order to reduce the milk.

They will often feed more at night, and they get more than you'd think in the short sessions while she clears their left over food.