Hello
I am a First time mum of beautiful baby girl who is now 9 weeks old.
Had difficult pregnancy and nightmare labour and she was admitted to special care for 8 days and was unable to feed her for 6 days (extremely poor digestion) so to be breastfeeding at all i thought was an achievement.
Each week she has gained weight steadily and has gone from 8lb 10 (birth weight) to 10lb 12oz (today). However because she has for two weeks now dropped below the percentile line she was following in her baby health book the HV has raised concerns. I have spoken to Breast feeding counsellor who gave me lots of tips and have kept a diary and dd is eating regulary, is normally very contented and is very active only 1.5 hours sleep today.
Can you please let me know if there is an average weightgain for bf baby as all information seems to be about ff babes. I need to go back prepared with some examples next week as they said if continues to drop below line then i will need to think about feeding her another way which will completly break my heart.
This is really getting me down now and wish they could acknowledge my happy very alert dd
Kerrie
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kmcomie · 06/09/2006 17:32
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