Home nurse visit

The home nurse visited today to see how Hayden and I were doing and to also remove my staples. That wasn't painful at all. We had to go over some paperwork and they will also visit again in a couple months. Then Hayden was checked over and weighed and unfortunately he lost 4 more oz. So he's lost a little more than 10% of his birth weight. I was extremely upset. She said that he wasn't dehydrated at all and she checked my breast feeding technique and we only had to tweak one little thing. She said it took her a while when she was watching to see that he didn't quite have it right. But, we fixed that and that's been better since she left. She said that because I lost so much blood that my milk quality isn't up to par yet and that it would take a little longer. She suggested getting a breast pump and supplementing with breast milk or supplementing with formula. I then was really upset. She called the pediatrician to find out what they would suggest and a little later they got back to me and said to supplement after every nursing with formula. We're not sure how long we'll have to do that. They want us to come in tomorrow to check him out and his regular one-week check-up is on Wednesday. The nurse said this was something that I have no control over and he has such a great suck that we should have no problems with giving him a bottle. She said he was a very healthy baby and showed no signs of not getting enough except for his weight. Luckily we had a free can of formula we got in the mail and also a bottle from a goodie bag from Babies R Us. I don't want to open the box of bottles we bought yet.