DC2 is 11 days old and his weight is exactly the same as when he was last weighed, at day 5. He only had a 5.9% loss from birth weight at day 3, and this had improved to 4.9% by day 5, but that’s where we’ve stuck.
When I had DC1 her weight had dropped by almost 10% at day 3 so we had extra weigh ins but after the first loss she gained slowly but steadily from there so I haven’t experienced this before.
I’m a bit floored by the whole thing because feeding seemed to be going really well this time. He feeds contentedly, produces endless dirty and wet nappies, is having alert periods in between feeding and sleeping, and the midwife said latch etc looked good. He seems to go longer between feeds than DC1 ever did, but rarely more than three hours. I’m going to make sure I offer a feed as often as possible from now on, but is there anything else I can do? Should I be worried?
The midwife could see I was tearful (after feeling like I was doing really well this time) so she took pains to tell me it’s not a loss, his initial weight loss was only small, and she can’t see any issues with the feeding. I just can’t tell how normal it is not to gain anything in almost a week.
Thanks for wading through that to the end.
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