You may remember me posting about a 46 year old mom who had a baby girl by "embryo adoption". I just saw the baby for a 2 month check up. Baby was born at 6 lbs 8 oz. At hospital discharge 4 days after birth, baby was 5 lbs 13 oz. At 1 week (7 days) baby was 6 lbs 2 oz. At week 2 (14 days) baby had lost weight and weighed only 5 lbs 15 oz. At that point, she was encouraged to start breast compression, some post feed pumping and supplementing with pumped milk, and close monitoring. We had frequent contact and baby always had adequate wet and poopy diapers and was alert and active. At 3 weeks baby weighed 6 lbs 2 oz, at 4 weeks 6 lbs 8 oz (birth weight) and at 5 weeks 6 lbs 15 oz. Mom and I were fairly happy with this weight gain then, and decided to weigh baby in 2 weeks. However, due to scheduling issues, we did not weigh the baby again until yesterday, which was at 9 weeks of age. Baby is now 8 lbs 4 oz (3rd percentile for weight.) Overall, since her low point of 5 lbs 15 oz she has gained 37 oz in 7 weeks, or about 5 oz a week. Baby looks alert and active, has about 2-3 yellow, seedy stools a day and about 6 wet diapers. Baby is smiling, reaching out to interesting objects, holding head and back well, and even has rolled over front to back so she looks very developmentally appropriate, just very tiny. Mom feels, though, that she has to nurse the baby a lot to keep up with her - at least every 1 1/2 to 2 hours and has occasionally supplemented in the last 2-3 weeks with ABM, generally on the order of 6-8 oz in a week. Mom never feels very full, except sometimes in the morning, is able to pump only about 1 oz total (although this is in addition to feeding the baby directly) She is returning to work full time as a high school teacher in 1 week. I can't decide if this mom and baby are doing fine, or if mom's milk supply is just barely adequate now and is at risk for having more trouble keeping up as time goes on. Any opinions? Jennifer Tieman Family Physician Mom to 4, including nursling Caroline Rose born 5/31/03 *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html