Hi all
I wonder if anyone can offer some advice / encouragement.
Our little girl was born 2 weeks ago tomorrow (at 11:24pm); and was ebf for the first week, however she lost 8% of her birth weight, didn?t poo for 4 days and was very unsettled so we started to top her up with formula on day 5, que much happier baby which after a day started to poo each day (big poo?s once or twice a day seems to be her norm now).
She now takes breast happily (prefers it) for 10 - 20 mins each side every 2 ? 3 hours and then a bottle of around 60ml each other feed.
She is now back at birth weight. HV came today and she is apparently on the 9th centile for height and weight (neither me or her dad are very big ? I am 4ft 11 so this is not surprising) but she has not yet started to pile on weight which she said they would be looking for.
HV did stress that to continue mixed feeding would affect my supply, which I know and accept. For me, I would rather top up and have a happy satisfied baby than one screaming with hunger chewing my nipples off.
I enjoy breast feeding and am hopeful to be able to keep it up for 6 months but mixed feeding has proved to work for us all so the comments about not gaining weight in bounds and supply have made me feel a bit emotional about it all?.
- Is it normal to just be back at birth weight and not yet climbing?
- Is there anyone here that has mixed fed from this sort of age?
- Any tips for maintaining supply?
Many thanks
GD