On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Barbara Glare & Chris Bright wrote:

> Even on 80mls per feed baby is still having only 480 mls per day.  Is
> that right for a baby that age? I'm thinking it's not pooing because
> it's not eating enough.  The baby looks very thin and small, and is not
> demanding anymore food.

Barb, I really like this chart
http://www.beststart.org/resources/Breastfeeding/pdf/Brstfdpstr.pdf as a
starting place for questions like this.  It doesn't seem as if 480 mls per
day is enough for the baby you described... the chart indicates 700-800
mls per day at this baby's age.  Stepping up to 8 feeds per day as Gonneke
suggested would get her to 640 mls per day.  That's better... but I would
suggest working up to even more to get that baby's intake to within the
700-800 mls range.  I'd like 12 feeds of 60 mls each... smaller feeds at
closer intervals really seem to help with weight gain, IME.

Cee

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