DD was born at 38+4 wand was quite dinky - 3.144kg or 6lbs 15oz. She is bf. Then at her 72 hour check it emerged she'd lost 12.2% of body weight!
Cue various interventions, inc 2 hourly feeding regime, 3 hourly regime with top ups of EBM, 3 hourly regime with top ups of EBM and formula through a syringe, etc....
She put on weight slowly in fits and starts, but then last week put on 80g in 48 hours, then again 80g in the next 48 hours, then 200g over the weekend! She'd made back her birthweight and then some, we were discharged by the MW, everyone was happy.
Except when the HV weighed her again today, she'd dropped again - a whole hundred grams, taking her back down below her birthweight again.
I just don't know what to do. I bf on demand, and always set an alarm for 4.5 hours so if she doesn't feed before then I rouse her. I do both breasts and she typically takes 40-60min feeding on and off. She sleeps next to me in bed and is held pretty much all day. We take a nap together. So no shortage of chances to feed.
My breasts leak milk in the morning when she cries and she seems sated after feeds, dropping off the nipple asleep. She poos loads and wees - we're pretty much keeping Pampers afloat - and has never been jaundiced. So I don't think there is a problem with her health or my supply.
What might be going wrong?? Have I missed something? I really don't want to give up bf but I don't want her to waste away either :(
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3w old DD losing weight - what to do?
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RevoltingPeasant · 17/02/2015 17:27
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