Millie's Milestones

MILLIE continues to put on weight.

Part of the reason for this is her voracious appetite for milk, which is good.

The downside is that it makes for rather repetitive updates!

With great reluctance, mummy has had to concede that the best way to get the most milk into Millie is via a bottle.

Millie drinks as much as she can of her mummy's milk from the breast, and then has some more from the bottle.

She is currently fed about 44ml from the bottle every four hours - and a fair bit too from the breast.

It's impossible to tell how much Millie gets from from her mummy, but she stays on the breast for 20 minutes at a time now.

However, the success of the feeding regime is reflected in Millie's growth.

She put on another 30 grammes in the past 24 hours, taking her to 1.706kg (about 3lb 12 oz).

Daddy made the graph on the left to show Millie's growth. You can click on it for a bigger version.

The blue line is her bodyweight in kilogrammes, shown on the left-hand axis.

The horizontal axis is her age in days.

Her daily weight gain is shown by the purple bars and right-hand axis.

Millie has had only six days during which she has lost weight.

Four of these days were straight after she was born, which is to be expected. She has only had two 'off' days since then.

Also, her daily gains are becoming more consistent, levelling out at around 30 grammes (more than an ounce) a day.

This is in turn creating fewer fluctuations in the blue line which represents her bodyweight.

When the blue line reaches about 2kg, Millie can come home.

At 30 grammes a day, this could be some time next week.

(Murmur Monitor: unheard today)

posted by Johann @ 11:10 PM