Hi ladies
My DS tracked along the 50th percentile for a couple of months before dropping quickly to the 25th. He started slowly coming down off that before he was diagnosed as tongue tie at just over 3 months and we had that fixed 3 weeks ago hoping it would improve a variety of feeding/digestive issues (bad wind, reflux and vomiting after feeds, loose nappies, green nappies etc) as well as help him gain more weight. the theory was that his tongue tie meant he could get to the fattier hind milk.
The other issues have since improved but I took him to be weighed again today and while the HV initially measured him as still sitting just under 25% and expressed no concern, I've checked it myself both visually on the graph as well as using a couple of weight tracking apps and it says he's now at 15%
Naturally I'm starting to worry as he's clearly not keeping up his weight gain.
He's EBF, roughly every 3 hours (sometimes 4-5 hours overnight) for 20-45 mins at a time, and is otherwise a very happy, healthy little boy who is very engaging and seems to be developing fine otherwise.
Am I right to be worried? Should I take him to see someone? Is it possibly a milk thing? He's my second child and I had no trouble feeding my daughter who sat at 91% on the chart until she started to walk. At the same age she weighed a whopping 700g more than him!
His feeds seem to have just been troublesome from start to finish between the reflux and the dodgy nappies and now the weight issues.
I love feeding him, and I know it's meant to be best but I'm beginning to wonder if I'm doing him a disservice by sticking to my boob guns and if maybe he'd be better off with formula.
Any thought please?
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4mth old dropping curves
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digsydel · 03/01/2017 15:03
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