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3 days old - no wet/dirty nappies?

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Tinselperion · 17/12/2011 21:48

DS is 3 days old - managed to latch on from the beginning despite a traumatic ELCS for fetal distress on Weds night. MWs very happy with latch and feeding in hospital, and I am finding it relatively easy and painless so far...

However the last dirty nappy was last night around 8pm (a very heavy olivey green one - assume meconium still?) and this morning there was nothing but a bit of orange "brick dust" in the nappy. Nothing since then... MW visited today at home, happy with how easily he latched and said brick dust was concentrated urine bc colostrum doesn't have much fluid.

No sign of milk coming in yet - should I be worried yet? He has been sucking loads (approx 3 hours total since lunchtime in 15 min stints, both breasts, and he's still going at the moment) but as no nappies produced is anything going in? He had 6 very big dirty nappies in the first 48 hours so a whole day 3 of nothing makes me worried nothing is going in now.

He is managing to fart loads though Hmm

Apologies for any errors - not much sleep and one handed on phone as DS still latched on (has been nearly an hour on now)

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Tinselperion · 18/12/2011 19:56

One massive soaked and pooey nappy at 6pm - nearly 17 hours after the last one Confused we were checking every hour or so so we didn't just miss it, maybe he just has a slow digestion?

I thought of water bc i have not managed to express anything yet - maybe I'm doing it wrong. No one has showed me breast compression - maybe there are some good YouTube videos?

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Tinselperion · 18/12/2011 19:59

Oh and the poo was still greeny brown this evening.

Never in my life did I think I would someday be discussing poo colours with kind generous breastfeeding Samaritans on the Internet...

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rhetorician · 18/12/2011 20:01

you tube clip

RudolphsKerfuffle · 18/12/2011 20:34

leaflet with information on hand expressing which may give you some more ideas if you want to express.

crikeybadger · 18/12/2011 20:44

Here is the video clip on how to hand express from Unicef.

I'm quite surprised that you weren't shown how to hand express in hospital, it's quite a useful thing to be able to do.

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