Please help - baby who won't drink enough!

[babymiracles]

Thanks MantaRay, Megsmum and Marcellus - your support and advice has helped enormously

Megsmum - thanks for sharing your experiences. I can totally relate to what you say about the emphasis on weight gain and not looking at whole picture. I guess after my experience when she was 8-10 weeks when she was not getting enough to eat and was very unhappy and unsettled (ie before we started expressing and using bottle) i have been on tenderhooks but really since then she has been happier and looks healthy to me - so I think I need to trust she knows how much she needs - especially using the bottle which her sucking problems are not a real issue (going back on breast could be a problem with her poor suck though so reluctant again to do this after giving it more thought over night - also only planning to use breast milk till she is 6 months as want to go IVF again and from my understanding I need my cycle back and that is going to be more possible to achieve if I stop breast feeding) Like E Molly does tend to feed better at night overall - so I will think of you feeding E when I am awake at night in future

[nicjay]

Sounds like a plan to me you have to do what you think is right. I just wondered if you were looking to get her back onto the breast to avoid the expressing KWIM? I must admit I hated it after a while LOL and couldn't wait to ditch the pump! So I assume everyone else is the same But yes, think of me at night - the way she has been the last 2 nights I'll almost certainly be awake when you do!!

And yep you will need your cycle back for IVF, not much use doing it without it I guess LOL My cycles took quite a while to become regualr again after DD1 too, but hopefully you'll get back to normal quick