DS2 was born less than 48 hrs ago. It was a homebirth, so since the delivery midwives went the only HCP I have seen was a midwife yesterday who came do newborn checks and see if we were ok. She was lovely and said we were doing fine. I am breastfeeding, he seems to be latching on ok, am feeding every couple of hours although both nights he has been wanting to be constantly on the boob, so have just kept putting him back on.
Today I get a phone call of "breastfeeding support" from a midwife at local hospital to see how we are doing. She asked me how much he is feeding and I described above. She told me I shouldn't be letting him access the breast so much or I would get sore, I should be expressing between feeds instead and not let him use me as a dummy. She then asked me about nappies, to which I told her we had a big dirty one yesterday and a couple of wees, and just one wee so far today (lunchtime). She said this was not enough, there should be 6-8 wet nappies a day. I told her that this didn't sound right to me for a 2 day old, given my milk has not come in, and told me to wait while she checked the guiuelines. She came back and said no it should be 4 wet and dirty nappies.
She's now sending someone else round to review us tomorrow as she thinks we have a problem.
Basically, should I be worried about dehydration? He's now done a second wee but still no poo today. Th only other thing is that his lips do seem dry and his cry is a bit hoarse.
If I should be worried, should I follow her advice, which feels wrong? My strategy has been maximum skin to skin and as much feeding as he wants, but she is telling me this is wrong. I feel this woman has phoned, undermined me and left me confused and upset, without even seeing my baby, and has now just left her opinion and pissed off. I BFd DS1 for 13months, so I have done it before, although the newborn bit was a couple of yrs ago. Please, someone with proper knowledge advise? Thank you.