My 4wo DD was 4.6kg at birth and dropped to 4.2kg by day 5. Due to various reasons, she is now exclusively formula fed. She was gaining weight, albeit slowly, but she's now plateaued at 4.5kg for the last two weeks.
The Health Visitor says we need to feed her more, but we're already doing 2 hourly feeds during the day. We let her drink as much as she wants, and it's generally between 45 - 60ml (1.5 - 2oz). She occasionally will finish 90ml (3oz) and over the course of the day, she'll have around 530ml. At night, we let her sleep but she'll normally wake 3 times for a feed between 9pm and 6am.
The Health Visitor says we should be aiming for 700ml a day, but how do we do this when trying to feed her more results in her projectile vomiting everything we've just given her? The one day this week I got 600ml into her, she vomited 5 times, so she probably ended up drinking less than normal in actuality.
I'm hoping that one day she'll just wake up and be hungrier and start drinking more. Is this realistic? Will she just decide when she's ready to eat more and put the weight on, or is this wishful thinking?
Feeding her is starting to feel like a really unenjoyable military operation and is causing a lot of anxiety.