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[quote=Anonymous]OP it sounds like your baby is doing great and you are a wonderful, attentive mom. I agree with others that I would try to work towards dropping using the scale. Too much information might feel like a good thing, but it's usually going to up your anxiety even if you don't realize it. Since baby is gaining well and breastfeeding is going well, your job now is to trust your baby and your body to know what they need. Trust your baby will get enough - you don't need to focus on ounces. That's one of the best parts about breastfeeding (when it works), as a mom who did both - not having to worry about ounces with breastfeeding is such a gift.

Please consider folks advice, it's hard to see the forest through the trees when your baby is a few weeks old, but the advice that the scale is likely some anxiety is probably on the right track. and since it sounds like you have some understandable worry from friend's experience about babies not getting enough, you may be offering more than you need to. Anxiety really plays tricks on your brain. This is coming from a mom with PPA - I get it. Boy do I. I am 100% a proponent of feed on demand. 100%. AND cluster feeding all day is not needed to do that, you will likely have to help baby stretch those feeds and that's ok. you will still be feeding on demand. OR if you want to keep snacking, that's FINE - baby can be a snacker if it's ok with you, but you need to just let him come to breast and not be weighing before and after. And it may be hard on you (or at least it would be on me). It's ok to find a balance between your needs and baby's needs.

I know you said you try other things first like pacifier, etc before offering the breast. How about a walk? Getting yourself into a little routine, maybe baby would sleep a little longer on you in a wrap on a walk, or in the stroller and get you some longer stretches. [/quote]

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