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Oh little B.... (a vent...)
Berrit is the child of many "wonders"
Backstory: She was losing an obscene amount of weight when nursing-basically, the effort to nurse caused her to use more calories than she gained from the feeding-and was deemed "failure to thrive". We thought we figured it out, until she started losing again, drastically. We started bottle feeding her pumped milk and she started gaining again, hitting birth weight at 8 week-finally! I tried to keep up with pumping and feeding her expressed milk (I have/had a rocking supply) and with her level of consumption-40-50 oz/day, I didn't have enough time to pump and take care of her and Anders-it was 12+ sessions just to feed her. We tried doing formula and breast milk in different feedings and she would refuse formula, and if they were mixed in the same bottle, she would refuse the bottle of both BM and formula also.
Since I ran out of stored milk we put her on an easily digestible newborn formula, which has worked okay for about 2 weeks-her weight gain slowed, but she kept gaining. Fast forward to this weekend-we have been trying to switch her to a regular infant formula and we are failing terribly. She is hysterically crying and refusing all bottles. When she is too hungry to refuse, she will eat an ounce or two and then within 30 minutes vomit it everywhere.
We have her back on the newborn formula, but the concern is that it doesn't have the nutritional components that she will need (it's also a lower calorie/oz formula) as she gets older. While I would LOVE to nurse her again, the concern is, again, her losing weight when nursing and me not being able to pump enough times to feed her pumped milk, and she refuses any supplementation if she is getting breastmilk in addition. Plus, the underlying medical concern is that there is a GI component that is just not being caught... oh yeah, and she's losing weight, again.
And to make it better, my supply JUST "dried up", so if we go back to pumping 12+ times/day I have to drastically rebuild everything. Plus, S is OOT for the next week and a half, so it's the kiddos and I 24/7.
And if you made it this far, you're a trooper.
Re: Oh little B.... (a vent...)
Poor momma and baby. Is it possible that since she is a little older she would be able to nurse without burning as many calories?
I hope everything gets figured out soon.
That's the hope! I tried last week and she lost 3 oz in 36 hrs, but I am hoping to try again this week. I would love to have her nursing, I just need her to gain some stinking weight! She's down to the 30th percentile for weight and in the 95th for length...wtf
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