Evening all
My beautiful DD will be 3 weeks old on Friday and is not gaining weight. She's gained the odd 10g and then loses 20g.
She was born by cat 3 section 14 days late after failed induction due to cervical scarring meaning I was unable to dilate...despite 3 days of contracting. She was 8lb 5.
We did skin on skin straight away and started feeding in recovery. As expected she lost a bit of weight post birth and is now down to 7lb 9.
I thought feeding was going really well but each time she's weighed she's lost. We feed 2hrly day and night and the MW wants me to pump and top up every feed. Safe to say I feel like a full time milking machine. Tongue tie has been ruled out and we are getting loads of wet and dirty nappies, all mustard colour, not green.
She's generally well and appears content, however the scales say otherwise and it's really undermining my confidence. Generally she falls asleep on the breast after 20-30 minutes and milk nearly always drips from her mouth.
On Sunday just gone I had a secondary post partum heammorhage and lost approx 500mls, on top of 650 lost in theatre. My hb was 9.7 but that's now up to 11.6. They gave me antibiotics but said unsure if infection. CRP levels in my blood results was 2 so this seems unlikely. Plus blood isn't offensive. So I haven't taken them as don't want to upset her tummy. (Metronidazole is pure evil!)
The MW thinks I'm 'compromised' and has asked my GP to prescribe domperidone to see if that helps. I didn't get the omg my millks in feeling this time. They feel slightly full but not like they did when I fed DS 7 years ago.
If the drugs don't work they're on about testing her for
Metabolic disorders.
I feel awful. Like I'm letting her down and I feel foolish because I thought it was all going well.