My 8 week old girl is exclusively breastfed, she has gained weight very slowly and has only gone from 7lb 3 at birth to 8lb 13 today she has dropped nearly 2 centiles on her growth chart.
The health visitor has been today and is happy with her development and that she is healthy and not lethargic or dehydrated. She is pooing and weeing normally and is very smiley and happy. We don't know why this is happening as there seems to be no problem with her feeding, she is fed on demand and the latch is good. No pain for me and she is clearly swallowing through every feed so definitely drinking.
There was mention of a need to top her up from a bottle if her weight gain doesn't improve. Has anyone got any experience of this? And is there a bottle that is good for mimicking the breast if I have to do this? I would ideally want to top up with expressed milk.
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outnumbered4 · 24/11/2017 14:12
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