I'm really desperate to be told that everything's going to be Ok!!
My DD (first child) is now 18 weeks old and was diagnosed with thrush at 12 weeks, even though we insisted that she'd had it since about 1 week old and weren't taken seriously! They finally agreed that it was one of the worst cases they'd seen and because she had it for so long, had adjusted her feeding accordingly. Hence taking two hours to have a bottle. At this point though, because she had adjusted, she was still gaining weight and continuing along the same centile.
Following treatment for the thrush, suddenly my poor little girl was having to cope with completely different feelings and tastes in her mouth and didn't adjust very well. Also, because having taken such a long time to feed, her stomach couldn't take large feeds.
At 13 weeks she was weighed and she'd dropped from the 25th to the 9th centile. Yesterday she had dropped to the 2nd, although she is still gaining weight. She's finally adjusting to taking more milk at each feed and reduced her feeding time to 30 mins, but she's so inconsistent. One day she will take 30oz and the next, only 24oz.
Health-wise, she poos and wees daily and there have never been any problems with that. She's very rarely sick (last time she vomited was about 4 weeks ago) and she's very smiley and happy. She's alert and very active.
So, should I be stressing so much about her feeds? Other than her weight, her length and head circumference have remained on the same centile as her birth.
I'm getting pressured (not by health professionals, but family) to wean her, but I know she's not ready for that as she's still so young and I'm concerned that with her having to adapt to milk with a thrush-free mouth, that trying to introduce a spoon or solids will be totally the wrong thing.
Please someone tell me that she's going to be OK!! I'm stressing everytime she doesn't finish a bottle and she just smiles at me!!
Any help or advice, or just confirmation that I'm doing Ok, would be great - PLEASE!!
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DawnAS · 14/10/2009 19:57
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