Hi Stella’sMum
Most hospitals would consider anything below about 2.5 to be low, however this number has no meaning in real life. It was derived at from a very small and poorly organised trial quite a number of years ago. In fact most experts cannot agree what is low. Suggestions range from 1.5 to 3.6. There is some research that suggests that it is normal and beneficial for a newborn to have ‘low blood sugar’ at birth. A low blood sugar encourages the baby to look for a feed and want to feed often which will cause your body to increase your milk supply. Even if your baby is just licking at your nipples this will still encourage you to make milk. There is no way I would have considered giving your baby formula 2 hours after birth with a blood sugar of 2.0 if you had not decided that you wanted to formula feed. During your pregnancy tour baby has been storing ‘brown fat’ this brown fat is used by your baby after birth as a food source. All this is of course based on the fact that there was no other clinical signs of low blood sugar.