Had a traumatic last few days with shiny new DD. On day 5 the midwife weighed her and discovered she had lost 14.9% of her body fat. A max of 10% is acceptable so we rushed into hospital where they basically gave me the choice of 1. Try to breast fed her although I wasn't producing enough milk 2. Expressing bm and topping up or 3. Formula. We ended up expressing and topping up but it's more formula than breast milk at the moment. She is now a healthy weight and guzzling the breast milk and formula from the bottle. I've not given up on breast feeding and I'm seeing a specialist on Friday to hopefully get us back on track but until then I'm expressing and making formula. I've read plenty about the best things for producing more milk - good food, rest, expressing and feeding etc but I wondered if mums out there had been in similar situations. I had a third degree tear so have been on antibiotics and laxatives which I'm sure has affected my nutritional levels and therefor my milk production, I hope we can get away from formula by the end of this week but some advice and experiences would be great.
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Breast milk supplies low and having to "top up" with formula
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mamabrownbear · 27/05/2013 20:36
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