hi vicky

saw from another post that you may need to stop bfeeding if your baby doesnt gain weight soon. My baby hasnt yet regained fer birth weight yet and is 4 weeks next wk.

how did it go at the weigh in the other day - has your baby gained weight? did they say what coukl have caused it?

hope you dont mind me asking

susan

Hi Susan,

Sorry I haven't replied sooner not been able to get on. I have started bottle feeding now as He wasn't getting enough off me they said it could be the tablets I'm on, at first they said to eat and drink more I did this but I couldn't eat or drink any more. but since bottle feeding he seems a lot more happy and he put on 7oz at last weigh in. Still not up to his birth weight but getting there.

It made me feel bad not being able to breast feed but now I know its best for him and I know what his getting.


Hope every thing goes well let me know.

take care
Vicky

[Modified by: vicky26 on February 27, 2009 10:54 PM]

Hi vicky

thanks for replying, that is a shame you had to give up breast feeding but that was a good increase of 7oz.

at my last weigh in, last week, skye (4wks) had increased her weight fron 2.69g to 2.78g, which was still under birth weight of 2.8g. mw was happy she was gaining weight. she reckoned some breast fed babies were slow growers.

have a hv visit today, am hoping she has now exceeded birth weight

susan

Hi vicky,

well found out yesterday that skye put on 5oz in the las week and is now 6lb 7oz, so am really pleased,

hope you are well

Hi vicky,

well found out yesterday that skye put on 5oz in the las week and is now 6lb 7oz, so am really pleased,

hope you are well

Hi vicky,

well found out yesterday that skye put on 5oz in the las week and is now 6lb 7oz, so am really pleased,

hope you are well

Hi Susan,


Glad Skye is getting on that's a good increase. I had Daniel weighed today and he is now 3.18g 7lbs so has put on 11oz in a week so has passed he's birth weight now, I was really pleased with this increase. I spoke to the HV and she still wants him checked every week as he was on the 9th centile when he was born and he is now below the 0.4th centile. she is talking about putting him on a different type of milk I'm not that sure why though as he is healthy and putting on so I thought that was a good thing perhaps it's because it was a different HV will have to wait and see what happens next week.

Don't know how much they want him to put on each week next there be telling me his too fat. :lol:

I never had this with my daughter she just put on straight from the start.
sorry for the rant .

take care Vicky

[Modified by: vicky26 on March 03, 2009 01:01 PM]

that's a great increase in weight. I guess every Hv is different cos mine was telling me not to give skye bottles of ebm on regular basis incase she gets lazy. would be interested to know what they say about recommended weight gain per week.

skye is on the 0.4th centile as well.

please let me know howyou get on next week'sweigh in.

susan

Hi Susan,
How are you and Skye?
Daniel is 7weeks today and we have had a busy week so far We had his 6-8 week check on Monday and the doctor said He is OK. I asked about the weight gain and they said its good.
she said they like to see them put on about 8oz a week.
she said ideally she would like him to put on 11oz this week but that is not very realistic so between 5 and 8 is fine.
So Tuesday we had him weighed and he is now 7lbs 9oz so a weight gain of 9oz so we was pleased with that.

hope you are well
take care
Vicky

hi vicky

how are you and daniel. thats good daniels 8 wk check went well. skye's check is on the 31 March.

Has daniel been weighed since? has he gone through any grwth spurts recently? how often is he feeding?

skye was weighed last wednesday at 7wks and had put on 10oz so was now 7lb 12ozwhich we are really happy with,

take care

susan