breastfeeding and not gaining weight

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I have a 16 week old exclusively breastfeed daughter. In the last 3 weeks

she has managed to loose 5 oz rather than gain weight. She's only was only

little to start with, but had followed the 9 % line.

She is very unkeen on daytime naps and would quite happily breastfeed all

day. She has a real line in end of the world hysterics if you put her down

and she still wants to feed.

I am beginning to suspect that she is suckling very half heatedly a lot of

the time and that the milk isn't letting down as well as it should. She

takes so long I end up trying to compute, watch telly, eat, or feed, read

to or talk to poor neglected DD1 while she's feeding.

DD1 and I never got breast feeding to work, she was very difficult to get to

latch on and the did the same thing feeding for an hour plus and losing

weight, she got formula from 3 weeks old.

However, as mentioned at the beginning of all this DD2 did ok until now.

Have to see HV tomorrow, don't want to start weaning her or giving her

formula (this would be a problem as she won't take a bottle of expressed

breast milk)

Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

BTW she sleeps 7-8 hours at night.

Sue Hutchinson, Mum to 30/01/98 and Isobel (HB) 23/02/01