Anne Rogers wrote:

Why?
You stick on a collection bag, wait about 15 min, pour urine into collection
cup, take to lab.....?? Is there something I don't know?
the problem is when we found blood in his urine we saw a different doctor
as ours was not on duty, he said it was difficult, but refered us to the
ped who said it was his foreskin, we then saw our doc again who said
nonsense, how would he cut it/scratch it, he's not been circumcised.

What about pumping after a feed and using that to supplement, just to keep
the health visitor off your case?
am planning to pump after each feed for the next few days, I will save the
milk, the problem is when I do pump and let dh give him some

Why are you doing this? Just to let dh feed? If that's the only reason, I think
you should stop. Pump after feeds to help supply, and if you MUST supplement, you
can start with the EBM instead of formula. But if your wee one has a UTI, it's not
a food issue, but a health problem. I really think the dr has to sort this out
first or at least rule it out with a test.

he usually
then leaves a longer gap before the next feed, so it would seem like
supplementing would just be replacing a feed, thus possibly leading to
dwindling supply.

Are they planning to stand around and watch while you feed the formula?
obviously not, but I am worried he's very skinny and well below the 0.4th
centile on the charts

Fair enough, just wanted to mention that you don't HAVE to do what you're told.
You can explore other options. The UTI testing is sounding pretty critical right
now.

At 11wks, why would his f0resk!n still be bleeding? (I have NO idea, my son
had nothing to heal....does it take that long??) If he's not cut, what would
cause bleeding?
see above

Thanks, sounds pretty shaky diagnosis to me. I'm amazed the doc scoffed, but
didn't then order a UTI screen.

Can you skip the home visitor and get a lactation consultant to check your
latch, etc?
luckily my health visitor has been a breastfeeding counsellor, we do have
a local drop in clinic, but she doesn't think there is any further help
they can give me as she has check everything, plus I've not changed
anything and his weight gain was fine for the first 8 weeks, I didn't
really suffer from sore nipples or anything.

Really really push hard for a UTI test. Demand one before you will put one drop of
formula into babe.

Dawn, realising I'm repeating myself. ;-)


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