As others mentioned, the block feeding (which may be a good strategy to 
reduce milk production in cases of oversupply) may be the cause of the 
slow weight gain. You and the mother  might find it helpful to read my 
recent blog post "Block Feeding Dos and Don'ts 
<http://www.nancymohrbacher.com/blog/2013/10/9/block-feeding-dos-donts.html>." 


Best of luck!
Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC, FILCA
Chicago suburbs
www.NancyMohrbacher.com <http://www.nancymohrbacher.com/>

Hello, I have a mother who is worried that she has very low fat 
breastmilk. Her milk seems “light colored” to her and her baby isn’t 
gaining as much weight as he did (about 2-3 weeks now) baby is 2 1/2 
weeks. She is block feeding this past 2 weeks because she feels she has 
an oversupply. but breasts are soft between meals. baby does not gag 
during breastfeeding she always fed on one breast per feed, and never 
pumped to actually see the whole milk volume in color. Babies has gained 
total of 2.5 kilos since birth. has mustard stool in the morning with 
less fussy breastfeeding during the night and green stool in the 
afternoon with fussiness during the day. according to her she has a 
normal diet, one dairy , yogurt ,a day. no diet restrictions. from my 
knowledge base and searching the archives here, I read that mother’s 
diet does not affect the fat content of her breastmilk, and that it is 
the way a baby eats that does. I have suggested to her to feed on both 
breasts at each meal, switching a third time if baby needs to. I have 
suggested for her to pump milk and see the total milk color, if it 
starts to turn opaque ( an indication of fat). any experience with 
similar mother situations, any other suggestions that you can suggest, 
have you seen diet influencing fat contact during bf, despite research 
saying saying that it doesn’t.


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