Fear of starving the baby - Page 2

[ejbamommy]

I have had this fear with each child! It wasn't to bad with my first 2, then my 3rd had problems gaining and the doc strongarmed me into weaning. With my 4th now I have this fear all the time and am constantly checking to make sure she's having enough diapers, that she seems happy and fed, etc. I try to tell myself all is well, and am slowly getting better at trusting it all again!

[_betsy_]

I had the fear for about 2 weeks. But my milk took 6 days to come in, and we had a very rocky start.

Around 2 weeks, I took her to get weighed, found out she was gaining well, and the ped wrote in her chart: Rx: Keep breastfeeding! Awesome weight gain!

And after that, I was totally fine. Totally over the starving-my-baby feeling.

So, maybe go get him weighed?

[tashantx]

Hi me too me too !~! lol!! My ds daniel is just now 10 lbs at 12 weeks I get the he's so alert and so on b/c people don't realize he is 3 months ah hem 12 weeks any way old !! Or was he a preemie? Nope 7.7 at birth crazy thing is he is eating and well 3-4 oz a feeding when we checked at the wic office but believe me I've felt he was strving many times not realizinng that babies cry for things other than hunger I put him on the breast every time he cried for the longest!! I know that's good and he rarely refuses I've had 2 peds treat me horribly and I've resorted to an antidepressant due to my anxiety and stress of starving my ds!! I can say the combination of finally having some support and the meds have made life a little easier I"ve weighed diapers with postal scales pinched skin for elasticity checked for a sunken soft spot felt the inside of his mouth for wetness etc all in the name of making sure he was not dehydrated!! I'm looking into possible food allergies intolerances for a possible reason for slow weight gain but in fact he may just be a lil guy !! I"m learning to deal with it !! He is a doll and very happy so I'm learning to look at him not the scale........oh and I fired my pediatrician!! That felt good after very poor advice from the first ped ie 15 min on each breast ONLY every 2 hours and other awful advice ....I went to a new ped they all support b/f if the baby is gaining the ''formula'' fed 2 pounds a month but if not huh good luck !! So just this week I sent a long letter along with facts about breast feeding to both of them!! Along with a just to let you know we won't be back!! I too have had the not enough milk lecture pounded into my head continuously my grandma bought formula and brought it over : that hurt me!! any way things are really nice right now except for thrush ugh and a lovely elimination diet!! thanks for reading!! (if you make it this far)

[DShadow]

Originally Posted by abimommy

As long as your child is content, going through plenty of diapers, meeting milestones, gaining weight ect ect

Then everything is fine.

Only, this information only applies to babies of a certain age. What they don't tell you is that it's normal for *newborns* to not gain weight, or poop, etc.