Baby weight 180g one week, 20g the next

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Last week my baby had put on 180g in a week and this week only 20g. Breastfeeding has been a battle but I thought we were getting there and now I feel despondent.

I am clinging to the fact it could have been due to the fact the scales today were placed on the examination couch, which is obviously softer than the floor?

Posted a few days back about trying to get to EBF and it is such an uphill battle :(

Health visitor drop in clinic time

Err scales always need to be placed on a hard flat surface. Why where they placed on the couch?

How old is your baby?

From what you have said a weigh in somewhere else is in order.

Is baby, awake, alert, having plenty of wet nappies? If so then this isn't a big problem.

Don't worry about it Could just be timing of fluids in and out relative to weighing.

Never put the scales on a soft surface. I’d drop into a health visitor clinic tomorrow to check

Thanks all. This was at our 6 week check. Luckily I have the health visitor at home tomorrow and she can weigh on the same surface.

I just want a win in my BF journey. We are combi-feeding trying to claw back from an initial high weight loss (he did eventually regain birth weight at 3.5 weeks).

Weighed today on a flat, hard surface and he is magically 100g heavier. Still slightly concerned at only 120g weight gain but he also vomited right before..

A gain is a gain! I know at the antenatal class I went to (NHS-run), the midwife said that you can go mad if you weigh the baby too often. I'm sorry if the HV are insisting on it if it's something you don't feel the need to do!

As others have said - the milk intake of BF babies is a mystery. You have to use your judgement as the mother at this point about whether the baby is feeding well, because you have been with your baby for six weeks and the HVs have NOT. Will the HV let you switch to fortnightly weigh ins? Would you be comfortable with that?