Charlotte Millington posts about twins whose mother stopped supplementing with formula after two weeks, and is now nursing both babies simultaneously. The babies look good and seem happy. Charlotte, you didn't say what the birthweights were, nor the weights at previous check before you were there to help her. In my experience if a lot of formula is being used, it takes a little time for mother's own supply to take up the slack. Often these babies have lost less weight than average immediately after birth and there seems to be a sort of plateau where they almost 'catch down' (as opposed to catching 'up'), that is, they lose a little weight to get hungry enough to really stimulate production in mother. If loss in the early days was very little, there is a better margin to go on too, before you start really worrying about why they aren't gaining apace. Contented, round babies who are observed to be feeding well is a good sign that everything is happening as expected. I would want reassurance that stools are at least daily and have that characteristic breastmilk look too. Stooling less often than daily would make me want to have them weighed again in a couple of days; if frequent stools, I would probably feel OK waiting til after a weekend to weigh again. I am inferring that they were last weighed just before your first contact with her, in which case the most recent weights are not really alarming. It would be nice if they'd both gone up a notch or two, but they aren't declining by any means and all the other indicators seem to point in the direction of a breastfeeding relationship being turned around from within an inch of total failure, to roaring success. Here, we would stay in touch for the next week or so, and mother could come weigh them as often as she felt the need to, though I would encourage her to look at the babies (and their output in diapers) more than at the scales, spend time breastfeeding rather than driving back and forth to somewhere with baby scales, and trust that this will work out. You've done everything right as far as I can see. Rachel Myr Kristiansand, Norway *********************************************** 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