Not getting enough 'hindmilk'?

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Baby is 13 days old now. Got her weighed, again, yesterday and she's put 6oz back on of the 12 she lost in 9 days. So not great, but not awful and lovely midwife is happy for us to carry on, but she suggests I need to keep baby on one breast per feed and make sure she's getting to the hindmilk.

DD also has very frothy poo, which is supposed to indicate too much foremilk, though it's bright mustard and healthy-looking.

Now from what I've read on here it's possible for baby to have a good enough latch to effectively get plenty of foremilk, but not good enough when it slows down and the milk gets fattier.
This seems to make sense to me as DD has quite a shallow latch, though it's not painful and she's transferring plenty of milk as her nappies show.

How can I get her to latch more deeply?

Also she is having truly epic cluster feeds, most of the day time which is really becoming unfeasible as I have a 3 year old too, is this likely to be because she's not getting enough fat?

Obviously I'm going to ignore what the midwives have said about 'the first ten minutes all foremilk' etc. as it's scientifically inaccurate bs, but I think she isn't getting enough fatty milk, so what can I do?

aaaaaaaaghhhhhhhh - not another HCP who has totally misunderstood about hindmilk/foremilk :( :(

One breast per feed is the opposite of what mothers whose babies may need to gain weight faster should be doing - the absolute opposite.

You can find a good explanation of it at www.kellymom.com and also the Analytical Armadillo blog has a good one.

Your baby may be fine anyway - she is clearly gaining weight. But if you think her latch needs to be deeper (though nothing you have said here makes me think so) then speaking to someone in real life who knows what to look for and who doesn't spout rubbish about foremilk would be your best bet :)

Thanks Tiktok. I know that trying to get to the hindmilk turned into inadvertent block feeding with DC1 and buggered my supply til I started switch-feeding.
I know this. But they come at you with their uniforms and pithy soundbites...

The midwife I saw yesterday is the most clued up hcp I've encountered so far. It's sooo crap.

When she's feeding non-stop for several hours, there's no way she wouldn't be getting fatty milk is there?

Is her weight gain ok? She went from 7lb 3oz at birth to 6lb 7oz on Day 3, put on 5oz in a week and another 1oz in the next 2 days.
She seems to be feeding a lot to not be putting more on.

I can't see how anyone would expect a baby to regain that weight lost much more quickly than that - sounds to me that she is doing ok, and her frequent feeding is doing the job of helping her regain the lost weight.

Hope you continue to feel better about it all :)