Sorry I know there have been tonnes of questions about slow weight gain but as Tik Tok has said elswhere all cases are different and I am in a place with no NCT or BF cafes etc...
My baby girl is now four months old and has been exclusively breastfed from day one. She was born at 4.120kg (am sorry am in a place which is all metric but that's about 9lbs 1 or 2 I think) and only dropped to 3.965kg which isn't a lot and regained her birth weight within ten days and gained well for the first two or three weeks. she then seemed to fall in to a pattern of gaining exactly 100 grams a week. I was actually quite pleased with this because DD1 remained static for six weeks and then started gaining minimal amounts until around week 18 when she started gaining normally. I had all sort of traumas with DD1 so I was thinking the steady weight gain was okay in DD2. But now the Midwife is saying that I could always give her some formula top ups etc...so that "she starts ticking all the boxes". She is otherwise one of the most alert happy little things that you can imagine. She started rolling at 12 weeks and hasn't stopped trying to get going since. She poos at 6.30am each morning and sometimes might do a second poo later in the day. I am feeding her as much as she wants and she has unrestricted access to my boobs at night too to see if that makes a difference. She isn't all that fussed with feeding and seems to refuse if I offer her more often than two - three hours. She is also incredibly interested in everythinng other than my boobs - the curtains in my bedroom never seem to lose there fascination!! We also had two days this week where she really only fed at night and virtaully fed for about two minutes during the day.
I have tried expressing after a feed and cupping it/bottling it/ syringing it to her after the next but that just gets spat out. She seems very in control of what she takes in basically!
My question is really If I successfully managed to produce enough milk for DD1 (eventually) could it really be the case that I cannot produce enough to get this one growing a little more? Am I being pig headed about this?
The only other thing I can think of is that she possets quite a bit and expecially in the morning. She rarely wants to feed until she's been up about an hour and a half. She has no other symptoms of reflux however as she isn't a cry baby and doesn't seem in pain ever.
I have checked my latch and I have quite strong letdown sensations - when she stays on long enough like in the evenings before bed I can feel several. She is swallowing etc...
I now have to go to the paediatrician and I know he is going to tell me to bring in the formula - I just think that will make her posset more and I don't think there is a lack of milk and I don't want her to stop with exclusive BM until she is much older (fed DD1 til she was 13 months). But if my DD2 looks and acts so healthy what is the benefit of her being fatter per se?
I am a skinny long thing who has never put on a bean of weight - even during pregancy I literally put on 8 kilos at most. Could it be genetic that my girls are just skinny malinkies?
Any thoughts gratefully received and sorry about the long email just have no one to talk to out in the desert here.
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Slow Weight Gain in High Birth Weight baby
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amaliesmor · 21/10/2009 07:08
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