@ronjonb What size were you as a baby? How about your husband?
What has baby's growth been since birth?
Does your baby spit up much?
Were you given an
IV during labor or had a
c-section? For me, that inflated baby's birth weight and caused a whole panic about weight loss and an unnecessary struggle to get back up to "birth weight". I also triple fed the first month.
I mean, 1% isn't necessarily a bad thing. The goal isn't 50%, that's not how growth charts work. The growth chart is supposed to follow your child on their own growth line, and some babies are in the 1% just like some babies are in the 99th percentile. Doesn't mean 99th percentile babies are better/healthier, they're just larger genetically. Moms with babies both in the lower percentiles and upper percentiles are told the same message: Breastfeeding isn't enough/is too much. How can it be both?
Is baby tongue tied? Are you able to get a good latch for effective breastfeeding or do your nipples look slanted like lip stick after nursing?
Pumping 35-40oz a day is AMAZING, especially if you're doing that on top of nursing. Yikes, I was only able to pump about 6oz a day when my baby was 3 weeks old... and he'd frequently spit up after bottle feedings.
I was finally advised to cut back on the bottles and nurse more. It made my life a lot easier... and it turns out that I did make enough for my baby. I nursed baby as long he wanted. If he was still fussy and seemed hungry afterward, then I'd give him a 1oz bottle.
1oz is enough food for 1 hour, especially if you're also nursing him. Then I'd try to nurse him again an hour later. The first couple days were rough but then it got so much better as my supply leveled out to exactly what he needed, and I ended up only needing to give him a bottle in the evenings when he was super fussy. Eventually I cut out that bottle, too. He was making plenty of sopping wet diapers, and that's the best indicator that they're really getting enough to eat.
