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Help with possetting

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LightTripper · 10/06/2014 09:14

First time Mum here! My DD is nearly 5 weeks old, and in the last week or so has started to posset (sp?) what looks like significant amounts.

She doesn't seem bothered by it, but she is already quite a thin baby (75pc for length but only about 15-20pc for weight) and not quite keeping up with her centile (she started at about 25pc). We don't have the most brilliant latch (though better than it was - Nipples are healing and pain not too bad and only when I first put her on). So I worry if she's having enough. She also gives feeding cues a lot (even e.g. when she's been on an hour, drained boobs from hard to soft, and had a 10min sleep, she'll be straight back to tongues. I've started enforcing a 1 hour gap if she's been on an hour as my nipples were in tatters, though I feel really guilty about it in case I'm compromising her weight gain Sad )

She seems to posset particularly after she's been v hungry. So e.g. most mornings around 7-8 she would drain one boob, and the last couple of days I've expressed the other for an extra evening feed (she cluster feeds in the evening and I never feel I have enough to satisfy her, whereas in the mornings my boobs seem to refill fast). But today she drained both, but then appears to have deposited half if it into her clothes and various muslins. Quite a lot came out even when I was holding her almost upright.

Any ideas for ways to make sure she hangs on to as much as possible?

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fledermaus · 10/06/2014 10:27

My 14 week old is still quite sicky (but happy with it iyswim) and I have started sort of staggering feeds - so right side at 7, 20 minute break and left side at 7.30, then r at 9.30, gap, left at 10. Lots of winding too.

Has she been checked for tongue tie - slow weight gain, long feeds, nipple damage etc are all symptoms.

LightTripper · 10/06/2014 10:57

I haven't asked, but MW and HV know we have been struggling a bit so I assume they've looked... will ask GP at 6 week check next week. She can stick her tongue out a long way though (DD, not the GP Grin ), and it seems very mobile when she is crying or doing feeding cues, which I guess make it unlikely?

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LightTripper · 10/06/2014 10:58

Will think about staggering feeds, but she may be screaming the house down in between! But will try holding off a bit if she is just tonguing xx

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fledermaus · 10/06/2014 11:06

I doubt GPs and HVs would know what to look for tbh. Some MWs might have been trained but many won't. You'd be better off seeing a breastfeeding counsellor or lactation specialist.

LightTripper · 10/06/2014 11:47

Ah, I see. Had assumed it would be obvious!! Will look into it. Thanks x

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