all ye women with slow-gaining babies... come and sympathise with Aitch here please...

[Aitch]

oh bloomin' heck. she's only put on an ounce and a half in 6 days.

Aitch would it be easier for you to take her to the clinic where the scales can just convert from lbs to kilos? Your HV sounds like a complete idiot!

Am off up to my parents later to pack the clothes into a corn bag for you so apologies if the have a slight hen corn whiff!!! It's the best packaging around you know.

Sorry - irritated again at an HV who only does imperial. WTF????

LOL at fishie's anxious witterings pages

tiktok over here please, if you will

hello Aitch must catch up with thread.

my maths is a bit feeble but doesn't that mean she has put on 25% of her birth weight? i don't know how they work out target gains for prem babies but have they given you any percentage goals as well as actual amounts?

am confused too... why did bfc advise more pumping and was it her that did the weighing? why did she do it in ounces is scotland entirely unmetricated?

bfc did it in kilos, she too was baffled by the hv's imperial. however, i don't have the previous measurement in kilos so am forced now to ask for imp to compare.

the bfc reckoned that a pound in a few weeks was good. i'm just moaning cos the hv will tizz at me when she phones because she's said she wants at least 3 and a half oz on.

i think i'll give her the measurement in kilos, (2.3 as i recall) so she has to go and look it up.

bfc has said to pump because dd is smaller and may be finding it hard to stimulate me. i really cannot be bothered though... which is bad i know.

But Aitch the reason 'you can't really be bothered' is that in your heart you know that DD2 is doing absolutely fine!!! have faith woman.

BTW can anyone help my thread here got a bit cross!....

(berolina - not going to that thread as the basic stuff about phoning a bfc is there and I would not add to it )

i stopped going to the "weigh ins" for a few months as there was obviously nothing wrong with my baby - happy, settled, lively, alert, wet nappy etc. She is just skinny. Just like my older son - both born on the 75th and dropped to below 15. HVs just panicked me. DD is 2 now, slender and active and bright as a button. DS is 6 and exactly the same. Don't worry - IMO HV are mostly formula mad.

Aitch, slightly off topic - does anyone in your family have coeliac disease or lactose intolerance?

"i'm just moaning cos the hv will tizz at me when she phones because she's said she wants at least 3 and a half oz on."

Tizz back at her and tell her you are Far Too Young to understand all this "oz" business. Am laughing at "is scotland entirely unmetricated?"

sorry to hijack but tiktok can i ask you a question?

a friend of mine has been told that to increase her supply she should eat porridge every morning for breakfast and eat a mars bar every night and drink a pint of guiness every night. i have never heard of this before? do any of these things really work?

What do you think, nappyaddict???

There is some anecdotal stuff about oats, but I don't think anyone has done any proper study on it (and it would not be hard to do). It's clearly rubbish about the Mars Bars. Guinness has B6 in it and it used to be thought it would therefore be good, but I don't know of any proper evidence - the B6 is small and in any case, B6 does not have much to do with milk supply.

The only thing - and I mean the ONLY thing that has been shown to increase supply is more frequent, effective removal of milk, day and night. I am often irritated by hearing how mums have been told the Mars Bar rubbish stuff, and not the frequent, effective removal thing...

ooooh, guinness. must get dh to get some for medical reasons. and mars bars...

nope, no coeliac or lactose intol, glad to say. why do you arsk, dear gel?

Been reading up on it re DD and her allergies.

Symptom can be slow weight gain.

thought so. no allergies with dd1 as yet.

what about you, dh etc?

Go on Aitch - start eating 5 deep fried Mars Bars a day and Tiktok can have you as her study.

DS has just seen the paediatrician (think I fancy him a bit - we were first appointment and he was all out of breath taking off his leather jacket and helmet....)

Absolute garbage from H/V including such advice as expressing after a feed as the hindmilk is flowing. Hmm, I asked, if I jump up and down, does it make a milkshake?

So, the H/Vs wanted weekly weigh ins, which initially I went along with, but Tik pointed out the NICE guidelines re: healthy babies and the weighing guidelines.

Armed with this information, I got an appointment with the GP and she asked me why I was so resistent to formula . I walked out and she later called me at home and asked how she could be supportive. I asked for a referral and the Paediatrician was lovely. He wrote in red bood, 'should continue breastfeeding....'

He said he wasn't keen on supplements as it meant the baby wouldn't feed as often...

it makes me mad to read about the crap advice given to us Mums. My novice advice -Gut instinct and sod the lot of the mad formula pushers! Finally, Drink more water - that seems to do the trick for loads of people I know. Not sure why but some expert out there must have done a study on weight gain in babies and fluid intake in Mums???

aaaaargh you are NOT going to believe this but my sodding pump is broken. eighty quid on an ameda lactaline. it's out of guarantee now, has been lent to loads of people in the last few year and now decided to pissing well stop working.

AND i gave dd a 50 ml top up tonight as well.

the boob fairy is trying to tell you something, Aitch.

Let the pump rest now. Its work is done.

LOL vlc

RIP pump.

Maggie - all the evidence, and there isn't much, is that water intake makes no difference, and deliberately excessive intake actually reduces milk supply

Aitch - I think it rather sounds like you do not need the pump. Scary as it's a prop, but....

vlc - were you verylittlecarrot? i've been trying to find you!!

'tis I, nappyaddict! wassup?