My 10 week old daughter was weighed yesterday by the health visitor who said she's not happy with her weight gain and referred us to the GP. She is gaining but slowly and has dropped from the 91st centile to the 50th since birth. She's exclusively breastfed and she is very sicky. She spits up quite a lot after most feeds but is doesn't bother her and other than a bit of a pain due to the amount of outfit changes, it doesn't bother me. She's not distressed, she's happy, chatty and doing everything I would expect her to. She's perfect. The GP has prescribed her Gaviscon to see if it improves her weight gain but honestly I'm just not buying that there's a problem with her weight. I think she's am average sized baby who was born big and is now finding what's more natural for her. I measured her length myself and plot her as being on the 50th centile for length too and she looks very proportional to me. She wees and poos for England. She drains the breast, comes off by herself, is content after a feed. Theres literally nothing else to suggest there might be something wrong. I don't want to medicate her if I don't need to so thought I might just not use the Gaviscon and keep an eye on her weight myself. Or am I being stupid to ignore the GP? I've heard that Gaviscon can cause constipation and whilst it would be nice for her to be less sick, is it really that much of a problem?
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Woodlandwalks · 02/06/2020 21:00
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