Our LO has been back from hospital a week and is exclusively breast fed. He weighed 1250 at birth at 34 weeks (severe IUGR) and is now 40 weeks and is 1860g.
The health visitor has just been round and he's only gained 90g since being back from hospital.
She says we should be putting him on formula after his feeds if he hasn't gained more weight by wednesday. She thought it might be partly to do with him not latching on properly and getting the richer part of the feed so she had a look at his positioning and gave me some tips.
I'm really upset as I was hoping he would be exclusively breastfed and I'm also really upset cos he's so small and I feel so useless.
Anyone have any experiences to share? Feeling really down.
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IUGR - slow weight gain - breast/bottle dilemma
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Bobo23 · 16/02/2009 14:55
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