When should I call the doctor about my premature baby?

Call your baby’s doctor, or your lactation consultant, in these situations:

      • if your baby is eating fewer than 8 times every 24 hours

      • if your baby is not having at least 6 wet diapers every 24 hours

      • if -- by day four after birth -- your baby is having fewer than 4
        yellow stools (messy diapers) every 24 hours

      • if your baby is becoming increasingly yellow (jaundiced), especially in
        these places: below the belly button, on the soles of the feet, in the
        whites of the eyes

      • if your baby is not gaining at least 8 ounces (½ pound) every week