slow weight gain - Page 2

[homemademom]

My ds took bottles almost exclusively from 1.5 wks up to 10/11 weeks. I kept latching him on so he wouldn't "forget" how to nurse, but because of posterior tongue tie (treated at 4 wks old) and then a high arched palate, he couldn't nurse effectively (not able to transfer milk and horrible nipple pain).  He did eventually get back to the breast (at 10/11 wks), but it's taken another 2 months to get my supply up to where we can ditch the bottles all together. My point is, my ds was able to switch back and forth between bottle and breast with no confusion (thank goodness!).  If your lo is nursing as much as she is, I'm guessing the bottles won't be much of a problem.  Also, we use(d) the Playtex nursers with slow flow nipples. I read on www.lowmilksupply.org that they were one of the preferred brands for supplementing bfing babies.  Good luck getting the posterior tongue tie taken care of, if that's what it is.  That website I mentioned has a list of tongue tie specialists by state, if you want to take a look.

[cww]

No problem - feel free to highjack away. :)  I'm glad to hear you've had some improvement.  Feel free to update again!

[CookAMH]

Still refusing the breast, seems to be more so, I put a separate thread here if you would be willing to take a look. I'm worried! :(

http://www.mothering.com/community/forum/thread/1319369/refusing-the-breast-more-and-more-12-weeks

[CookAMH]

We got her tongue clipped today. Now we'll see if there is improvement. She gained 4 oz in the last two weeks.   I'll be offering many more bottles after nursing, she needs more milk.

I need to work on supply too so that there is more for her to eat if she stays on longer. I realized that since she's mainly one sided, I don't know how much more I can get one side to produce. I may need to work on the lower side, IF she would take two sides. I hope her nursing will go longer - there are times before today that there was more milk but she was done nursing, so hopefully the clipping will allow her to stay on for those longer feedings (like the first feeding of the morning).

We're also going to get some physical therapy as recommended by the bfing doc, to take it a step further than the chiropractic care she's gotten. Something is still going on that chiropractic hasn't resolved after many visits, lots of tension in her body overall. So that'll take place in a couple of weeks.

I'll be doing the exercises too with her tongue for the next couple of weeks so it doesn't grow back.