i gave birth to dd in the early hours of wednesday morning. she was quite diddy, at 6lbs11oz & has lost some weight since. as i have diabetes her blood sugars were monitored for 24 hours, and she had 2 formula feeds. these were from a cup, so no nipple confusion. she's a little bit jaundiced, but only very mildly. she's taken to breastfeeding well i think, is latching on pretty easily and sucks away. oh, & after i had her i lost a lot of blood, had loads of iv fluid and am on iron tablets.
here's the paranoia bit. she spends literally hours at a time sucking. and if she isn't on the breast she's desperately rooting for more, which i always give. i don't remember ds doing this at all. she does seem satisfied, goes to sleep & has reasonably long periods awake. so, is this normal in a 3/4 day old? and the other thing is, where's my milk? i didn't get engorged at all last time, just noticed ds looked milky after a feed, but i'm sure the milk was here by this time. i need to stop her losing weight to get the midwife off our case. i honestly don't see how she could suck more to stimulate the supply, but it just hasn't arrived yet. i know it should be any time now, please can someone just tell me it'll be soon!
ps my hormones are a bit all over the place atm....
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hoxtonchick · 02/07/2005 11:42
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