Weight

So on Friday Alexander was re-weighed by the health nurse. I fed him the hour before so that we could then head straight to the zoo with the rest of the family. I was very uncertain as to how he would go with the weight. I honestly didn't expect him to put on enough weight to be back to his birth weight.

When I arrived the nurse again asked how I felt he was going to which I replied 'I honestly have no idea'. We then undressed him so there is consistency in his weighing. I put him on the scales and they read 3.91kg. This was 50g over birth weight! How exciting. I did put my hands up in the air and sat hooray because I was so happy and surprised. He had put on 230g in a week. Wow!

The nurse wants me to continue on motilium full dose for at least another week, to still wake him every 3 hours for feeds in the day and to re-weigh him weekly to just check he is still putting on 150-200g each week. His dressed weight is roughly 4.1kg so I am to go off that and just do the weighing myself. So there's still work to be done to try and fatten him up but he is looking ok though.

On Wednesday morning Alexander chose to only have the left side for breakfast so I expressed the right side. Within 5 mins I had expressed 70mL which I was very happy with. Hello motilium kicking in, although I didn't express before to know if I had increased the amount of milk or not. That night he slept until 3am and then only fed from the right side so I went to express the left. I only got 40mL which was a bit disappointing as I it had been 8 hrs between feeds. I honestly thought there'd be more milk from that amount of time between feeds. Then last night he only fed from the right side again so I expressed the left side. This time I only expressed 20mL which made me feel a bit discouraged. I know it had only been 2hrs between feeds, and it was the evening after having no rest so supply is lower but still. It wasn't great to see. I just remember that with Daniel I was so full of milk. This time around I don't feel like I am very full at all even after being on motilium for over a week. Maybe my body is responding differently this time because it's my 3rd child. I don't know.

I can't help but feel a bit bad that I'm not providing enough milk for Alexander. I can't help but worry that he isn't getting enough now to keep putting on the weight he needs. I can't help but think that because I'm not able to rest I'm making less milk for him. I don't know. Im sure I'm stressing over nothing but it is something that is going on in my mind. I'm not keen to be weighing him each week - I want to just leave him be - but then I don't want him to decrease because something has gone wrong and I don't know about it. It's just tricky I guess.

I am hoping that he will keep putting on the weight required but will just have to wait and see. I am hoping that I will get to the point of not needing to wake him up anymore. I am hoping that he will be healthy. I am hoping that I have enough milk with the motilium and that dropping the amount of tablets I have wont change the amount of milk that I have. We will see.