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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like your doctor is advising that you supplement with formula. Not replace breastmilk with formula. If your baby is not getting enough nutrients or milk from your breastmilk, it does not hurt the baby to supplement with formula. He still getting the fatty breastmilk. Maybe he has trouble nursing and you are unaware of it so even though he’s sucking at your breast he’s not getting the full breastmilk that he needs. That happened to one of my friends babies. He was not gaining weight at the correct rate that he should be. And then he actually dropped and was considered to be failure to thrive. She definitely supplemented with formula after that and her baby gained weight. Sucking out of a bottle is easier for the baby then at the breast.[/quote]

OP here. I don’t think you read everything on this thread because I’ve stated multiple times I went from exclusively nursing for the first month ( where he did gain weight) to exclusively pumping. He nursed fine and went from 6lbs 7oz, regained his birth weight of 6lbs 14oz, and then was 8lbs 10oz at 1 month. He gained almost 2lbs while exclusively nursing in the first month after gaining his birth weight.

The pediatrician at 1 month said he was small and was worried when he went from the 32nd to the 25th and ordered me to start supplementing with formula. I started pumping because I was worried he wasn’t getting enough and I wanted to know how much he ate each each day. I started feeding him pumping milk and supplemented two feeds with formula. He went from 8lbs 10oz to 10lbs 12oz in 1 month. The pediatrician still said he was small and to cut back from the 24 ounces of breast milk and give him 16-20 ounces of breast milk and increase the formula from 8oz to 12-16 ounces. She also said I can switch to a high calorie formula.

He has been bottle fed the last month and has continued to gain weight just like he did when we exclusively nursed. The pediatrician did say to cut his breast milk intake and feed him more formula.

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