Below are signs that you should check with your doctor about your baby or yourself. Remember: check with your health care provider if you have a question, whether it's a sign on this list or not. Odds are that everything is fine, but trust your instincts and don't hesitate to ask.

• Your baby hasn't had a wet diaper in twenty-four hours.

• It is the fourth day after the birth and you see no evidence of white-colored milk (in leakage from your breast or spit from the baby).

• Your baby has no bowel movements on the fourth day after the birth.

• Your baby cannot latch on to a breast.

• Your baby is lethargic and is difficult to wake for feedings.

• Your baby latches on readily but feeds for only a minute or two and then appears to doze off.

• Your baby feeds endlessly, for an hour at a time, and doesn't seem satisfied, then sleeps for less than an hour before crying for another feeding.

• Your breasts are painfully hard and swollen (full and firm is fine, hard and painful is not).

• Your nipples hurt during the entire feeding, not just for a moment at latch-on, and you find yourself dreading feedings or shortening them because of the pain.