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>Hello Everyone,
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>I've been reading the archives but would like to post this situation anyway...
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>Helping a second time mom with 18 day old baby.
>Baby weighed 7 lbs 14 oz at birth born at home- no complications...
>Lowest recorded weight was 7 lbs 5 oz on day 3.
>Highest recorded weight was 7 lbs 15 oz (mom recalls this as being on day 6).
>Today baby weighed 7 lbs 11 oz.
I would question the accuracy of those weighings. A baby does not
normally gain 10 oz between day 3 and day 6....either the mother's
recall of the timing, or the weights, is incorrect, I would say. Are
there no written records of these? This sort of thing should not
rely on mother's recall.
How was the baby weighed? Electronic scales with recent calibration?
Or some other way? Naked? Or clothed? At the same time of day and in
the same relation to feeding or not? Who weighed the baby?
I can't comment on whether this mother sounds as if she has
insufficient 'raw material' to make milk, but most women as we
know can make more than enough milk for at least two babies,
especially at first, if they're given a baby/babies who suck
effectively and often.
I would be looking at improving the way the baby attaches to the
breast to improve this effectiveness, plus suggesting breast
compression to encurage the baby to continue feeding when he stops
sucking.
But mostly, I'd be sceptical of those weights....and I'd ask about
the accuracy of the birthweight, too.
Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK
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