Just looking for a bit of advice.
DD is 13 days old. She was 8lb 6oz when she was born at 41 + 5.
She is breast fed. She has been feeding well having a period of cluster feeding once a day and then 2-4 hour gaps between feeds the rest of the time. She feeds for between 15 and 45 minutes sometimes from both sometimes from just one side depending on how long she feeds for.
Day 2 she had lost 60g. She's been weighted twice again and both times lost a bit more weight. She is on 3% loss of birth weight.
Mw now saying we need a plan in place and I should express after feeds then give her that.
I'm not that happy about doing that. I find expressing painful and I don't want to give her a bottle or cup feed.
Really wanted to know if anyone else had experiance somthing simular and if baby losing weight in the first 2 weeks is really cause for concern. I feel like top up feeds is a bit extreme when she's only lost 3%.
Is there anything else I could do in regards to my diet.
The only thing that seems a bit unusual is my right breath swells with milk and leaks but the left one doesn't. But when she feeds I always hand express a little at the beginning and start and the left does have milk in it. In fact the left squirts out where as the right just seeps out milk.
She does also have oral thrush but doesn't seem to effect feeding.