Not gaining. :(
Bella has not gained. She was barely 8lbs yesterday at the midwife's office, with a footed sleeper on... when we weighed her before she was naked. At my 2 wk checkup she was 7lbs 15 and 1/2 oz! =:O When I went in the next time she was just at 8lbs even. She was born at 9lbs 4 oz! :( :( :(
Other than that she *seems* healthy. She is bright-eyed and bushy tailed! She looks at everything, coos, gurgles, and is starting to smile. She's having 3/4 poops a day and I am not counting her wet dipes, but lots! I've been laundering cloth dipes daily AND had to go buy more 'sposies. She stands up while leaning against me, scooches, and acts like she is going to crawl off. She holds her head up and seems so strong in general!
I've been to two LLL meetings and met with an LC three times... I just got off the phone with her and she is on her way over to drop off a pump in style for me. She is recommending I pump for five min. both sides before nursing, so Bella gets the hind milk faster. She says she thinks it sounds like a fore/hindmilk imbalance. I think that sounds right because I think Bella gets lazy towards the end of a feeding... she is maybe not finishing on one breast before she goes to the other for the fresh, faster flow.
I've been eating oatmeal... do granola bars count??? =:O But I'll have my husband pick up some fenugreek for me later today from whole foods.
I am sooooooo... just sort of in disbelief at this. I feel like something is wrong with me. Everything else worked! This should work too! :( And I love nursing her so much.
I made an appt with a new pediatrician... mine can't see us till Tuesday, since she is not... "sick" per se... but now I'm not sure I want to go to the new guy as I KNOW he will tell me to supplement with formula. I'd like to at least give supplementing with my own milk a try. (LC wants me to pump before I nurse, then when she is done spoon/syringe feed her the milk I pumped.) If she *has* to be supplemented with formula OF COURSE I will do it. But this is the prob with a mainstream ped, that they will default to that without suggesting anything else, and I know this in advance. Plus if I go in they are going to push the hep b shot and I'm not sure I'm up for that right now. I don't have a problem with it... I'm just not ready for her to get shots today. Plus I don't see any issue with delaying the hep b. Maybe a year. Plus I am not sure I'm up for explaining the whole "home birth with a midwife" thing *today* to a mainstream ped.
Thank you for the comments about my midwife. She really does mean well, but I mean... I knew she was absent minded before this, and I know Dec./Jan were insanely busy for them, but still! Why is it not written in my file! I certainly don't expect her to remember every detail of every vagina she sees.... but if I TELL her something I think she should listen to ME, and not say "Well the chart just says you had a 2nd degree tear."