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I thought I had this whole breastfeeding thing locked up with the champion eater. I was completely avoiding things that a lot of people have problems with. But Nora latches on fine without much effort other than trying to keep her hands from getting in the way. Because of her great eating habits, I never dealt with engorgment at all. I only even noticed that I had gotten my milk in because it dribbled out of her mouth one day and it was definitely too thin to be colostrum. Oh, and I have even larger jugs now. Nora's great eating habits have also done a tremendously wonderful job of contracting my uterus. This I know because I have felt the contractions, like I needed more of those, and I'm also much thinner than I was two days ago.
That being said, we've stumbled on to a new problem. At the peds office yesterday, she had lost another ounce so we're going back tomorrow morning to check on weight gain. And I'm glad. They were pleased with her feeding when I did it there and she did it for a long time, but pretty much since then, she's really reduced her eating big time.
She had been going 30-40 minutes total each time she'd eat. Now I'm lucky if I can get her to go for more than 10. She gets about 5-6 minutes on one side and then totally poops out. We try every trick in the book to get her to wake up and go that long on the other side. Every once in a while she sneaks in a long one, but not like she was doing before.
Again, it's not her latch because she's great with that. She just gets done eating and won't eat anymore. She hasn't increased how often she wants to eat as a result at all and she's very definitely still putting out the dirty and wet diapers that she should be. But I'm worried she's not getting enough. I guess we'll find out for sure tomorrow. Maybe the milk comes out faster than the colostrum and she doesn't need to nurse as long? I really don't know.
It just makes me upset and Nora's latest trend of screaming for a couple hours at the beginning of every night is taking its toll on my mental health.
That being said, we've stumbled on to a new problem. At the peds office yesterday, she had lost another ounce so we're going back tomorrow morning to check on weight gain. And I'm glad. They were pleased with her feeding when I did it there and she did it for a long time, but pretty much since then, she's really reduced her eating big time.
She had been going 30-40 minutes total each time she'd eat. Now I'm lucky if I can get her to go for more than 10. She gets about 5-6 minutes on one side and then totally poops out. We try every trick in the book to get her to wake up and go that long on the other side. Every once in a while she sneaks in a long one, but not like she was doing before.
Again, it's not her latch because she's great with that. She just gets done eating and won't eat anymore. She hasn't increased how often she wants to eat as a result at all and she's very definitely still putting out the dirty and wet diapers that she should be. But I'm worried she's not getting enough. I guess we'll find out for sure tomorrow. Maybe the milk comes out faster than the colostrum and she doesn't need to nurse as long? I really don't know.
It just makes me upset and Nora's latest trend of screaming for a couple hours at the beginning of every night is taking its toll on my mental health.
