Breastfeeding a preemie help

[Socalledchaos119]

My baby girl was born at 35 weeks to the day, she is 2 weeks now but they had me bottle feeding her pumped breastmilk in the hospital.  I want to get her on breast only but I don't know how to do it.  I can get her to latch and take occasional pulls at the breast but then she stops or falls asleep.  She takes the bottle but is even kinda lazy on it sometimes.  Right now I offer her the breast then follow up with giving her a bottle.  It upsets me that the doctors want me to measure how much she takes to an exact science...when I get her to finally take what they want they up it again.  Now I find she is spitting up a lot and idk what to think.  They also get mad at me about her weight.  She was 6.1 at birth then got down to 5.9 and Thursday she was 5.13, they wanna reweigh her next Thursday.  I'm trying my heart out.  My goal?  To exclusively breastfeed and stop the bottle.  How do I do it?  I don't want her weight to crash and how do I get away from the "science" of intake?  Also she doesn't wake herself up to eat...I wake her every 3 hrs.  Please help?

[SunWorshiper_26]

I left you a message in the breastfeeding forum. PM me if you have any questions :)

[westernbabe]

U may have to wait untill her due date was supposed to be bc preemie babies get worn out easily. Idk what to tell u to avoid the science of how much she should be eating but I can tell u how to help her gain weight. You can mix a little bit of baby cereal in with her milk to help her gain weight. The science is to get them to eat about what they should be for their age they up it all the time to try & help her gain weight as well