I am breastfeeding my newborn, I feel quite successfully. We've been feeding on demand, seem to have cracked the latch now mostly, and she is feeding for anything from 10 minutes to maybe 25 minutes followed by a snooze and then often another 10ish minutes on the other side. I'm not timing her feeds at all so these are estimates. She seems really content.
Our only issue is that apart from her first two days, when we had six meconium nappies, we haven't had any further dirty nappies at all. I have been upping my fibre intake on the advice of the community midwife who has told us that if she doesn't poo today we have to do a formula top up to see if that works or be transmitted to hospital where we will be forced to put her in formula.
I'm obviously quite upset and worried now. I dint want to harm her but really don't want her to have formula this early. My twins previously were forced onto formula top ups and it was such a struggle keeping up the breastfeeding which limped along for just under six months before they finally refused the breast completely. I don't want to go down that same path again.
Has anyone else been in this situation? Is there anything I can do to avoid the formula?
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Week old baby, breastfed, content but no dirty nappies
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Beamae · 03/10/2013 07:06
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