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Advice to help my lovely friend and her 12 day old pls - Hunker, anyone????

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thomcat · 13/08/2007 21:32

My lovely friend has a 12 day old.
Mum had to have a c-section as has high blood pressure and had a bleed that morning so they gave her a c-section then and there.
Baby weighed 3.2 at birth and after a few days in hospital she was weighed before they left and she was 3.
Midwife appt today and baby still weighs 3 so she hasn't put on anymore weight.
Midwife told my friend she'll have to give her baby formula.
She's gutted but not acting on this advice just yet.

My cousin went out and got her an electric 50quid breast pump from John Lewis today but I explained that the pump won't be getting as much out as the baby will.


I might be wrong but as baby was actually only due on Friday just gone, but is 12 days old perhaps her milk isn't properly in yet and baby isn't losing weight just not putting loads on just yet.



Help me to help her please.

Oh and did I once read that there are certain foods that help build your milk supply? Is that right and if so what?

TIA guys, TC x

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katyjo · 13/08/2007 21:47

Bump, mears tiktok are you there.
I am no expert but I wouldn't have thought its time for formula yet, but I guess it depends on the circumstances. Is baby feeding regularly? Lots of dirty/wet nappies?
I'm sure you'll get some great advice soon.

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PinkyRed · 13/08/2007 21:54

Tiktok and Hunker are the experts, but just wanted to say - I has cs and because I needed a blood transfusion after a couple of days and wasn't producing enough milk they gave dd formula for a couple of days, but only small amounts, and I breastfed and expressed to keep my supply up. They gave her my expressed milk first then formula. After about a day and half, I went back to just bf, and carried on exclusively bf'ing till she was 6 months, only stopped when she was about 14m. So I know exclusive bf is the best thing, but if she does end up having to give some formula, expressing and trying to bf might mean that's only a temporary thing, like it was for me.

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thomcat · 13/08/2007 22:04

Thanks for that

And sorry I seem to have started 2 threads on this

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