My baby is 3.5 months old, and EBF. She's 12 lbs 4oz as of yesterday. She's gaining weight very slowly. She went about a month without gaining anything at all! She's got chub, she's alert, happy, sleeps well, hardly ever fusses, has plenty of pees and poos, etc. So I didn't realize she wasn't gaining until a week or so ago.
When I nurse her she nurses for about 7 minutes and then she's done. At night she'll dreamfeed for longer, but I'm worried that she's not getting enough hindmilk during the day. What can I do to encourage her to nurse longer?
I am not an expert in weight but I think that is she's happy and has enough pee/ poopy diapers, I wouldn't worry, unless her Dr is concerned. Did her pedi tell you something about her weight?
About nursing for longer. My babies never nursed for more than 5' at that age, they were very efficient.
I'm sure someone else will chime in with more info
I'm not sure I see evidence of a problem. Your baby is nicely on the weight for age charts (see http://kellymom.com/images/growth/growthcharts.gif), right below the 50th %ile. She's happy and healthy and her nursing speed is normal for her age.
Did someone say something to you that made you feel like your LO isn't gaining fast enough?
I would not worry about nursing longer. If nursing frequency is also down, esp. if it is less than at least 8 times a day, it never hurts to increase nursing frequency, imo.
weight checks are so tricky-i would say, don't assume anything from an adult scale even if its very good. If you are really concerened, you can have baby weiged at the doctor or somewhere with an infant scale-and it shoud be the same infant scale as the previous weight check.