Ebf newborn not gaining weight fast enough. ..

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DD lost 10% of her birth weight at four days old. Weighed at day 5 and gained 85g. Weighed again at day 10 and lost 40g. Weighed again day 15 and gained 10g. The midwife said I now needed to give DD a top up of formula after every feed as baby should be gaining faster than this and we have to go back for another weigh on day 17.
Of course I want what's best for my baby but she is having wet and dirty nappies, doing well other than not gaining weight fast e.g. lovely and alert in between sleeps and feeds. I bf Dd2 and although it was a while ago I remember she gained weight really slowly but surely.
I'm now filled with dread at the thought of another weigh in and midwife not being happy with the weight gain and judging me for not giving dd formula. I don't want to formula feed dd. I want to continue to ebf and give it a bit longer. Had a lovely hv today who agreed and said I should pump after every feed instead. Completely unrealistic with two other dc but I said I would try and have managed to pump once today. I get about half an oz for each breast.

This has all knocked my confidence after a physically amd emotionally exhausting couple of weeks following the birth. Its hard to know what to do and hard to try and pump all the time. Today's been a real down day and I'm not sure where to turn.
Thanks if you got this far.
^that just came out as thanks if you git this fat. Bloomin fat fingers.

Lying? Stating! Weird auto correct.

Yes, sorry, you are right, squizita - monthly is correct for most healthy babies.

I'm grateful my mw/Hv are more bf baby aware than most! By the sound of it. One less thing to stress out about.

Update: baby snug has gained, hurrah! Discharged to hv but hv wants to weigh next week, which is fine by me as baby isn't back to birth weight yet despite gains (dd seems to be following the slow and steady trend)

Still switch nursing, trying breast compressions and making sure we aren't going too long between feeds.

Thanks for all of your input it definitely helped in stressful times

Ds took 6 or 7 weeks to regain birthweight

Caveat: I was getting a lot of support from bf counsellor midwives at the maternity hospital (seeing them weekly) and they did encourage me to wake him to feed him as he was sleeping a bit too much .

I did see the consultant paediatrician when he was about 7 weeks but by that point it was obvious the ds was just following his own very slow and steady growth curve and the consultant was more interested in what my dad (who he used to worth with) was doing .

I'm not sure I'd have been as confident about avoiding HVs if I hadn't had such fantastic bf support (including the loan of an electric pump) from the maternity hospital.