I am desperately trying to get things back on track with my 12 wk old DD. her weight gain is so slow to be almost static after initially gaining well. We all got a dose of norovirus when she was about 3 - 4 weeks old and things have just not been right since then.
I can get her to latch on well but she generally only feeds for about 3 minutes then off and the same pattern when I offer the other side. I keep trying to latch her back on but she will just suck a couple of times then off and after several attempts at this just turns away and refuses.
She never feeds to sleep, no cluster feeds in the evenings. Out of desperation I started to give her a formula feed in the early evening for the last 10 days, she takes this happily after a bf, but it has had no effect on her weight gain.
I have called one of the help lines and tried skin to skin and laid back position, but his just really stressed her out. HV just keeps telling me to give her more bottles.
I managed to feed DD1 for 13 months after a rocky start, I so want to find a way to do the same for DD2 but I just can't seem to make it work for her.
Can anyone help?
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popcorner · 12/02/2013 11:47
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