Advice needed please

[allisgood1]

DC3 is 5 days old. He was born at 3785g. He was weighed on day 3 and was 3520g. Mw came today and he weighed 3500g. Mw insisted he's lost 8% (he hasn't) and put him on a "care plan" which involves me feeding him on both breasts ( he's satisfied after one side) and expressing and topping up. I don't want to do either as he hasn't even lost 8%! Mw also wants to come back in two days and re-weigh. I don't want her to. What can or should I do?

Thanks tiktok. They haven't phoned back although someone came to the door but we were napping so ignored it

I've looked in my notes and mw has written that he is having regular poo and wee and feeding well (she observed this). So I can't understand the justification again. The person I spoke to this morning said they didn't know why the mw had weighed him 2 days after he had been weighed

I'm sure he will have a nice gain as he's gone from taking one breast every 2-4 hours to taking both breasts every 2-3 hours other than 2-3 longer stretches in a 24 hr period. I'm not concerned

I'm not a midwife, I haven't seen you or your baby...but on the info here, it all sounds good :)

The reason for the further weighing could be that this midwife likes to weigh 'her' babies - there's nothing wrong with that, in principle, though for a baby who's already shown he is fine it's not clinically important.

Midwife called this morning. They apparently discussed my case and decided baby doesn't need weighing again until day 10 So happy to have no stress! He's also taking in more (both breasts instead of one) so am sure he's going to have gained loads

Sounds fine. It's good they have discussed it, and even better that they have actually reported back to you.