Hi there, my baby will be 11 weeks old tomorrow and is EBF. As far as I am concerned she's fed well from Day 1 and we've had no problems (first baby had tongue tie so feeding was really hard so it really uplifted me how much easier it has been this time).
The health visitor came last month and expressed some concern that baby had dropped a percentile since birth 75th at birth (birthweight gained back within 2 weeks), down to 50th. She said she would arrange to see me again to check up on this. I've always fed on demand and had made a passing comment that a couple of nights prior she'd gone 5 hours through the night between feeds instead of 2-3 so I'd had a better night's sleep. I got a rather negative reaction to that and told I shouldn't let her go that long. Incidentally it didn't happen again.
She's producing plenty of wees and poos and is bright eyed and healthy looking. I've been really mindful to keep feeding on demand and have been making sure she feeds long enough to get the hind milk.
Health visitor is coming tomorrow so I weighed baby myself today to see if she'd maintained at 50th percentile and although she's gained since her last weigh in, she's now dropped to 25th percentile.
I've got myself worked up a bit about this
and to be honest it's been playing on my mind this past month like I'm doing something wrong.
My husband was a small baby, my toddler is at 50th percentile for weight and 25th for height. I really think my baby is ok. Has anyone had a similar experience, what is the Health Visitor likely to say?