Lydia is two weeks old today. I took her over to Valerie’s this morning for a check up. And she looks great! Aside from her weight… I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, since we’ve been struggling with feedings and that means that of course there were going to be issues with weight gain.
This past week I would try nursing Lydia when I wasn’t very sore but that would end up just breaking open that scab, which meant that it needed to start healing all over again. So I decided that I had better just play it safe and not try to nurse on it until it has healed completely. So I have just been expressing my milk and giving it to Lydia in a bottle. 🙁
She weighed in this morning at 6 pounds even. That means she lost at least 1 pound and 4 ounces over the past 2 weeks. That’s a LOT! Valerie told me to start adding formula to my breast milk to help get her some more calories. And she want’s me to increase the fat in my diet so that my milk will have a higher fat content. So we’ll try that out and weigh her again next week.