Barb, I have fed all of my babies. Tehya only finished this May at 26 months. I was already preg with Abbey.

Abbey weighed 3.2kgs. She weighed 2.9 kgs last Thursday at the Paeds, she was 10 days old then. Today she weighs 3kgs. So she has gained 100 grams in 5 days.

Her wee and poo output is quite poor. Her urine is quite smelly. It really stinks like the AB's she is on. She hasn't pooed yet today, but since being ill has only been going once a day. She has about 8 feeds in 24hours although it does vary. Generally she is feeding 4 hourly, but then oth times she will feed 3 times in that hour.

Paed still wants her on formula. It's worth noting that one of the nurses in special care told me that he is very much for the bottle too. He has told me that he wants Abbey to gain atleast 250 grams a week. I'm not sure if this a reasonable expectation right now with Abbey feeding the way she does.

Abbey and I had a bath together tonight and she had a big booby feed in there. Also tonight I took the first dose of Motillium. As much as I don't want to take that stuff I don't want to use formula either. Figuring by me having that it's the lesser of the 2 evils.

Abbey does have a dummy butI gave that to her initally to encourage her to suck. She is still quite a lazer sucker. The only time she does it great is when she has that damn teat in her mouth for her AB's. On a teat she seems to suck fine. That's another reason I am so hesitant to introduce a bottle to her with EBM. I know that as soon as I do that Abbey will totally reject the boob.

Barb, I thought of seeing a LC too. Do you know of any in the western suburbs of Sydney ??

I also plan on getting a second opinion from another Paed.