This morning Kiri was still feeling ill. She complained of flu-like symptoms, the shivers, general sick feeling. So I continued feeding baby with the bottle and changing and winding him with the help of the girls.
When our midwife arrived she did a weigh-in of Raniera. He came to 8 pounds 7 and a half ounces which was right on, a pound more than his birth weight. She said it was normal for babies to lose weight during their first week and then gain more during the second week. He did lose 200 grams I think during that time, and put on another 260 grams.
She also did a check up on Kiri. She gave her a prescription for some antibiotics and then told her to immediately start breastfeeding baby again, all the time because her breasts were probably clogging and not emptying.
We had been feeding Raniera by bottle with expressed milk over the last 4 days to rid him of his jaundice. Now that that was gone we were to leave that to the side until Kiri's breast and her health were fine.
Kiri stayed fairly sick for the remaining day and night. She probably felt worse as baby took a little time to get used to breastfeeding again, and one of her breasts was giving her hell. Raniera was unable to latch on and so was frustrated and cried a lot.
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