DodoTan
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My daughter has very high jaundice when she was 4 days old and had to be admitted to kk for phototherapy. Doc said one of the reasons was that she was not feeding enough as she had lost more that 10% of her birth weight. Up to that point, I was completely breastfeeding. As it happens, my little girl is always very sleepy and would keep falling asleep at the breast every 5 minutes.
So while she was at kk, the nurses fed her formula and I was told that she drank 70 to 80ml every 3 hours. Now I don't know about you all, but at 4-5 days after delivery, I obviously did not have that much milk. At best, I could express 10 ml every 3 hours. (which, for the record, is already a marked improvement. when I had my son 2 years ago, all I managed was a few drops!)
Ok, so, fine, I don't have enough breastmilk. When we finally were able to bring her home 3 days later, I supplemented her feeds with formula. As far as possible, I tried to express and feed her EBM by bottle so that I could know how much she was drinking. Thing is, her jaundice is still there and slowly going up. I really don't know what else to do. Don't want to have to admit her to kk again. Seriously, they cannot expect a mother to leave her 4-day-old baby at the hospital for 3 days and not feel anything. Those were really terrible 3 days for me; couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, just kept crying.
Thing is, my son had a bit of jaundice but not near as high as my daughter. I was taking much more chinese herbs and ginger and stuff then, BUT he had much less breastmilk from me cos that time really, really don't have. I thought this time round my little girl so lucky to get more BM than her brother but then haiz... the jaundice... sigh...
Any advice?
So while she was at kk, the nurses fed her formula and I was told that she drank 70 to 80ml every 3 hours. Now I don't know about you all, but at 4-5 days after delivery, I obviously did not have that much milk. At best, I could express 10 ml every 3 hours. (which, for the record, is already a marked improvement. when I had my son 2 years ago, all I managed was a few drops!)
Ok, so, fine, I don't have enough breastmilk. When we finally were able to bring her home 3 days later, I supplemented her feeds with formula. As far as possible, I tried to express and feed her EBM by bottle so that I could know how much she was drinking. Thing is, her jaundice is still there and slowly going up. I really don't know what else to do. Don't want to have to admit her to kk again. Seriously, they cannot expect a mother to leave her 4-day-old baby at the hospital for 3 days and not feel anything. Those were really terrible 3 days for me; couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, just kept crying.
Thing is, my son had a bit of jaundice but not near as high as my daughter. I was taking much more chinese herbs and ginger and stuff then, BUT he had much less breastmilk from me cos that time really, really don't have. I thought this time round my little girl so lucky to get more BM than her brother but then haiz... the jaundice... sigh...
Any advice?