Help!

[posterofagirl]

I have been breast feeding my lo who is 3 weeks old but she hasn't regained her birth weight and is losing a bit of weight every couple of days.
We had a traumatic birth, induced then vendeuse which left her with a huge scalp wound and the csection during which she got cut deeply on the shoulder.

Feeding got off to a very slow start and hospital made me top up with formula. Thanks to the support of the community midwives we weaned her off this at home.

Lo struggles to feed from the left breast so I do expresss and top her up with ebm from that side.

She feeds every 2 hours in the day, 4 at night and we have 8 ish wet and dirty nappies a day. In short she's feeding pretty well but no weight gain and no sign of any illness in her.

I am at the end of my tether because I seem to be accidentally starving my baby and making us both miserable. I am starting to think I should just switch to formula but I hate the idea of it. I just don't know what else to do .

Although, OP does mention that she struggles to get her on the left side.... could this be as a result of the pain from the ventouse that occ is suggesting?

Hard to say I guess, without actually seeing the baby.

Yes....def worth checking out.

Hi, just a quick thank you and update. Lo is now slowly gaining and much better at the breast.

It was a combination of oral thrush and general trauma that seemed to causing the issues.

Thanks again for your support, it was very much appreciated

Yay!