DD not doubled birth weight by 10 months.

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Just had my daughter weighed by HV again and she still hasn't doubled birth weight, she's just over 10 months old. She has actually lost 1oz in the past 11 weeks, since birth she's dropped from 75th to low end of 9th Centiles for weight, she's still on 75th for height.

It's been a constant struggle since she dropped her first Centiles at 3 months old to get food and drink in her and a massive worry for 7 months just to see her drop further and further and be told "she's just petite" "she's just slim" or "we will check her again in 2 weeks" and then she puts a tiny amount on and they decide she's fine again.

Is this normal? To me it doesn't seem like it, I've got a GP appointment booked first thing Monday morning because I want a second opinion, she's gradually reaching developmental milestones and is active, still doesn't sleep through in her own bed. I know all kids are different but DS doubled birth weight by 4 months and is on 91st Centiles for height and weight.

Very worried and need some advice!

Thankyou everyone for advice, the house is so tense now with worry and having somewhere to talk about it rationally is really helping.

In an average day DD wakes up and has a bottle of Hipp organic follow on milk (only one we tried so far that didn't constipate her or make her sick) she will Have between 3 and 5 oz of this
Breakfast will be either crumpets or toast followed by Ella's porridge made with the same formula, always followed up with a fromage frais containing her vitamin drops as this is one of our failsafe foods that she will always eat, sometimes she will eat a lot of breakfast sometimes none.

Another bottle at 10 sometimes she will have 2 or 5 ounces of this

Lunch at 12-13 ish Will be baked beans and cheese in a potato or something with pasta, if not a lot of this is eaten I will offer sweeter baby foods like orchard chicken (I don't really like baby food but try her with literally whatever she feels like eating on the day) and a dessert of custard or rice pudding or cream cakes or normal cakes if we have that in.

Dinner will be what I cook, mild and salt less curries with rice or chilli or spaghetti bolognaise or roasts that sort of thing but modified a little for DD. Then again another pudding of something milky and fatty which she will always finish.

A bottle is offered at 2 which she sometimes has between 2 and 5 oz of

Another bottle is offered at 4-5 she will usually have again 3-6 ounces of this

I like to offer her a finger food first like large chunks of dinner followed by a puréed version just to make sure I'm covering bases, most meals also come with a side of grated cheese for her to thumb through.

Then a bedtime bottle at 7pm which is hit and miss, one night she will completely refuse it and another night she will drink a 7 ounce bottle dry and I will wish I made more.

We make up 8 ounces for every feed because I would rather pour it away than not have made as much as she will drink, it's so wasteful but I make every bottle with the hope she will suddenly guzzle it all

I would have thought under one you offer formula milk first then solids? Does she have issues with eating too, or does she eat well. Have you tried the formula in a soppy cup instead of bottle or straw cup?

Yes have tried formula in other cups she doesn't have it, the problem we had wirh offering formula so soon before meals was that she then wouldn't eat food at all but was still taking in very little milk so we worked out a way to space the feeds evenly enough so that she would be peckish for the food and for the milk.

None of my 4 children had doubled their birth weight at 10 months. My youngest has only just doubled it at 17 months. They are all healthy. Some children are just slower to gain weight.

Sadly the babies can't read the charts.

I have DD's red book in front of me. It goes as follows:

Birth: 91st centile
1 month: 50th centile
2 monthd: 25th centile
3 months: 9th centile
4 months: 25th centile
8 months: 50th centile
24 months: 75th centile
40 months: 50th centile

and that's pretty much where she's stayed.

She was 99.6th centile born which then dropped to 25th by 3.5 and is now at 50th (she's 5 and a half).

If your LO is otherwise healthy, try not to worry. They're all different.

Sorry, first set of measurements is weight and second height.

The food sounds fine Tbh, depending on how much of it she eats. As a comparison my dd is 10 months too and today has eaten:
Breakfast- 1.5 weetabix with cows milks on and tablespoons of fruit puree. Half a crumpet.
Snack-A banana
Lunch- a scrambled egg with butter in and a slice of toast of which she ate 3/4 ish
Snack-half a peach and some grapes
Tea-macaroni, broccoli and cauliflower cheese. She has enough to cover one of those ikea plates and will eat almost all of it.3 tablespoons of yogurt 20th fruit puree
Bedtime milk'-8 oz at bedtime then perhaps 5oz at the dream feed

We've struggled to get milk down her since she was weaned (she was mix fed until 8 months, one ff at night and the rest bf, I stopped because she just refused milk during the day) but she's gaining weight well. She's a bit of a tiddler though, 9th centile.

Bloody hell. My 5 year old wouldn't eat all that now!

I think from having 2 under 3 and remembering how my son was, how quickly he gained and how active he was I know that with the amount she's eating and drinking she should be gaining more than she is, and that something isn't right, all babies are different but the way they process the same amounts of food and milk (actually my son had less) can't be different to the extent that one thrives and another just doesn't gain anything at all. It's so worrying.

If you feel she needs seeing about this, then go with your instincts.

Dgd's weight gain was slow to non-existent for weeks on end. She had real feeding issues from a few weeks and refused bottle after bottle. or would have an ounce or so and then refuse more. She dropped centiles and dd was beside herself.

The gp did the usual Gaviscon for silent reflux and 'don't worries she's just a lazy feeder etc etc', but it just got no better and her weight gain was either miniscule or non-existent, time after time. The whole house revolved around how much dgd had drunk/refused to drink. It was really stressful and worrying.

DD really pushed the GP for a referral as she said it just wasn't ok for feeds to be distressing her that much. Gastro guy was great and as soon as he saw her feed said she had bad reflux. In addition to medication he put her on Infatrini which is a high calorie formula. He'd tried her on Nutramigen just on the off chance there was an intolerance but she refused it point blank.

Once she was on the infatrini her weight started to steadily increase as it has a third more calories than regular formula, so although she didn't have great amounts it maximised what she did have. He also referred her to a dietician who was really supportive. Dgd is not the best milk drinker/eater but since she saw this chap, she has a bit more meat on her little bones. To be 'eligible' for Infatrini babies need to be losing weight I think because it's very ££££. But it made a heck of a difference. I really hope you can work out what's going on and an action plan. It's unbelievably stressful. You need support and to feel someone is working to improve things because it's really scary just to be turned away and made to feel you are being anxious over nothing.

If you feel it's not right then you go and push for a GPs opinion. And a second one if necessary! It's ok to worry. If there's something wrong they'll sort it out

DD4 is 27 months and has only just gone past tripling her birth weight. Just under 7lb. I had awful worries about her weight for the first 18 months (and to be honest i still fret now) and watched and counted and stressed over every bite she did or didn't take, so i know how it feels. She's always been tall, and such a skinny bean!

She point blank refuses so many normal easy foods, like cheese, egg, beans, spagetti, peanut butter, banana, all breakfast cereal, fish, potato, anything creamy except yog and fromage frais .... sigh. She will eat what she will eat and it makes for a very boring menu, and i'm so afraid of turning anything into a fight i let it go and just push plenty of what i know she will eat and bump up the calories where poss. When she tries, eats and enjoys something new it's like mardi gras here!

I mean DD was born at just under 7lb, obvs :)

Oh god so glad to here these things! In our house it's causing bickering because it's literally all I think about and it's been this way every day for 7 months, daily counting the ounces of milk and the food, I can remember ounces of milk she had days ago because it's always on my mind. And the food! If DD decides she likes something I'm buying shares in it. At the moment she loves baby biscuits, she has one bite and throws it on the floor but I'll happily let her burn through a whole pack as a snack if it means she gets some food in her!

Get a copy of My Child Won't Eat. It might help.

I know you said she doesn't sleep through but when she's asleep how is it? Is she snoring or anything?

I ask because DS2 dropped through the centiles from 91st down to 9th. Quite slowly at first and then more rapidly when he was older than your DD. he had massive adenoids, snored and had sleep apnoea. The GP explained it as his body was working so hard and burning so many calories just to breathe when he was asleep that there was nothing left for him to grow. He had his tonsils and adenoids out although he hasn't climbed up the centiles he has dropped any further either.

Sorry - although he hasn't climbed up the centiles again he hasn't dropped any further either.

Get gp to make peds appt. Only they can advise you really!

If DD decides she likes something I'm buying shares in it.

God i know that feeling. Your whole mood lifts and the day seems good when they've eaten.

I find that as soon as i start happily thinking i've introduced a new food she'll bloody go of it! Arrggh.

Ds1 slide from the 75th percentile (height and weight) at birth to the 25 percentile (height) and 9th (weight) by 9 months. He put on no weight at all b/w 9 months and 12 months, just got very slightly taller.

Because he was allergic to CMP we were referred to a pediatric dietician who pronounced him fine. He was/is fine - just small and light. She gave me some good advice - if they are well, energetic and growing then don't worry too much.

Netflix. DD and her DH were bickering about it all the time too. DD dreading each feed and worrying and worrying and DH saying, well there's nothing else that can be done and we can't keep talking about it, we're going round in circles getting nowhere. DD felt very isolated and alone with the situation before they saw someone. It was just horrible. I knew from the minute dd started to speak to me how bad the last feed had been - I could hear the despondency and worry in her voice :( The consultant they saw said that feeding/weight issues are incredibly worrying and stressful, so thankfully DD felt less bad about being so upset. Like you, she couldn't think of anything else and every conversation revolved round how bad it was, what it could be, what they should do etc etc. I really hope you at least know you're not alone and that you don't keep getting brushed off by your GP.