Poo is back to green- MW says baby not getting to hindmilk - any advice?

[ElmMum]

After some good big yellow poos last week DD has gone back to doing green poos - bit like pesto - and her weight gain has slowed down. Midwife today said that's probably because she's not getting to the hind milk.

Any ideas about how to make sure she gets past the fore milk and into the hind milk?

Background...

She's 16 days today, is feeding 6, 7 or 8 times a day depending, goes for a good half hour each time before nodding off on the boob. She's gulping well all through and then dozes.

The last couple of days we've made an effort to rouse her with burping or nappy changing and putting her back on. Most often, she latches on again but pretty much goes straight to sleep. A bit of quick sucking and sighing, but no gulping and swallowing.

Have tried tickling feet, back of neck, hands, stroking cheek, tapping forehead etc. She just dozes through it all and seems very content.

I wouldn't worry except for the lack of yellow poos.

Any advice??

DD had a few cases of green poos when she was newborn (now a healthy 7 mths old). The first time was when we had thrush and I was taking her off (too early for her it seems) because of the pain and she wasn't getting all of the milk she needed (no idea whether it was the hindmilk issue or not but she definitely wasn't getting enough). The next time, I had eaten something that disagreed with her and it essentially rushed through her system (I know it was that as I tried it again a week later and the same thing happened). I would definitely offer both boobs at every sitting once the first boob is finished - I know it's difficult to tell, but I never decided a boob was finished with on the basis of DD falling asleep, as when I woke her sufficiently, she would often then feed for a further ten minutes on the original boob. Oh, and not very helpful I know, but every baby and every boob is different, so what worked in my case may not work in yours.

Actualy we did cover babies digestion. I know at least one one HV(maybe 2) and a doctor at the childrens hospital who ahev said the same too.

Maybe we are all wrong and I have no problem with being told that but I do have a problem with being told I am making things up.

I was just trying to help, but in future I wil leave it to the 'experts'

Sorry, fiodyl, I should not have said you were making something up. I'm sure your intentions were worthy.

I have no difficulty at all in believing that school biology lessons get this wrong, that HVs get it wrong, and that doctors get it wrong

You just need to spend a few minutes reading some of the threads here to see that hvs and doctors usually know very little about breastfeeding but think they do hence why so many women struggle to bf after being told crap by these professionals.