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My 4 month old son drinks expressed milk at an average of 40/50 ML per feed and his weight is 5.9 Kg currently. Is the milk intake low, how do we increase it. His weight gain has decreased in last month. Rest he is very active and jovial kid
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Yes it is low but the weight gain is still ok . Try to do breast feeding. He will suck more
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