dd is 7 months old and i haven't weighed her for 5 weeks since i was tols that she was 16lb 5oz and not gaining weight quickly enough. droppped from 75th to just above 50th centile.
the problem is i cannot get her to eat anymore. she is happy most of the time, but has constipation on and off, and even when not constipated not that interested in milk/food. she never really has more than 20ozs a day (in about 5 bottles, and sometime will have breakfast, sometimes will have tea, sometimes will have a snack at lunch. i have tried different routines and different bottles, teats, formulas the lot. but her apetite is just small.
i am now scared to get her weighed agian, since it freaks me out and make me feel like a failure. i know she has put more weight on because she is growing out of clothes, but i am scared of her dropping through those charts more.
must add that since newborn she has never been that interested in food and therefore nothing has really changed. just as i am getting used to the idea of her just being happy i see a HV and i feel like shite again. i am tearing my hair out with worry, but have no solution.
thinking that i will just not wiegh her for sanity sake.
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yentil · 13/03/2006 09:39
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