Hello,
My baby is 13 days old. We had some latching issues at the beginning, causing nipple damage. I saw a lactation consultant when she was 7 days old, and things have improved. There is still a little pain with initial latch (possible small lip/tongue tie), but all open sores have healed. Even during the first week, with the nipple damage, milk transfer was not affected. At birth, she was 8 pounds 8 ounces, dropped to 8 pounds 1 ounce two days after birth, and then was up to 8 pounds 12 ounces at one week old. We go to the doctor tomorrow, so I'll have amore accurate weight then; however, I stepped on the scale with her last night and she was close to 10 pounds. She currently nurses every 2-4 hours for 5-15 minutes. I have to wake her up for most nursing sessions. She doesn't have any health problems, but she does sleep a lot. She has normal amounts of wet/dirty diapers and the consistency of the dirty diapers is normal. She isn't very attached to nursing (as opposed to my first born, who nursed constantly). Sometimes it seems like she would like to comfort nurse, but I think my oversupply is preventing it from happening (the several times that I "forced" her back to the breast for comfort, she ended up covering us in fountain spit up).
About three days ago, I started to nurse on one side only for each feed. For her, it seems to be working out well. She typically isn't very interested in the second side anyways and it seems like fountain spit-ups have decreased. I nursed like this with my first born, but it wasn't until he was 6-8 weeks old. I am worried about long-term supply issues doing this. I am also worried about plugged ducts/mastitis because I am dealing with more painful engorgement now than I did when my milk came in. I also think I really need some verification/encouragement--especially since this baby is completely different from my first. Thanks!