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Weight of 13 wk DD. I'm not worried but hv is. What do you think?

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ABow · 31/08/2005 08:12

Dd is just over 13 weeks old. Yesterday she went for her 2nd lot of jabs and was weighed. We've not been in to see hv since last lot of jabs at 9 weeks. Dd weighed in at just over 10lb. She had been on the 25th centile on the girls growth charts. At 9 weeks her weight was a little below the 25th centile line. And yesterday her weightgain had dropped so that she now appears to be on the 9th centile. Hv was a bit freaked and wanted me to go in weekly to get her weighed. But I declined. She'll get weighed again in 4 weeks at her next jabs and I felt more frequent visits would invite unnecessary intervention.

I'm not worried about her weight because
she feeds well
she is bright and alert
even though not crawling (of course) she is really active (arms and legs constantly on the go)
and
it could be a weight aberation.

But I wondered what Mners thought? Just checking that I'm not being blase I suppose!

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lockets · 31/08/2005 08:16

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sassy · 31/08/2005 08:20

If she seems well, and poos/wees frequently, no bother!

if you are bfing, she's likely to be slimmer anyway.

(Speaking as the mother of a 7mo who weighs about 15lb, if that, but is fabulously healthy.Some people are just small!)

ggglimpopo · 31/08/2005 08:24

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ABow · 31/08/2005 08:31

Thats what I figured. Scales bad! Smily happy baby good! I am bf-ing too.

She's just petite like her mum. Though of course that means she'll get all the horrible nicknames that go with it. When I was about 15 I was the only girl in my chemistry class at school. I got lots of (friendly) jibes from the boys about being small. Then one day my chemistry teacher (a man and I really liked him) asked me to go to the front of the class and then said 'boys one day you'll realise that small ones are more juicy' and gave me a jaffa orange badge (the adverts were on the telly at the time).

Of course now he'd be sued for sexual harrassment for saying such a thing but it wasn't meant like that at all.

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lockets · 31/08/2005 08:32

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Twiglett · 31/08/2005 08:50

also if she's breast fed then HV will be using the wrong chart anyway

moondog · 31/08/2005 08:54

ABow,sounds absolutely fine.Don't worry. (Who are all these weird HVs? Could we work out a time frame to ascertain when exactly their training reached its nadir???? How many British babies have died of starvation in the last 10 years?)

I don't like the teacher comment.My mother told me that when young and pregnant (20) the doctor wanted to give her an internal examination and asked her to open her legs. As she did,he sniggered and said top the nurse with him'Wish they were all as easy as that!'
She says more than 40 years' later it still rankles.

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ABow · 31/08/2005 09:11

Moondog and Lockets. Thats awful! I don't know why exactly but I don't see the teacher comment as bad as those experiences. When health professionals say things like that, you are already very vulnerable.

And the teacher was one of my favorites and he was really (really!) short himself and therefore he was taking the mikey out of himself too. The double entrendre went completely over my head at the time and I really don't think he meant that.

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ABow · 31/08/2005 09:15

And going back to Dd's weight! I get a bit irritated that we have to conform to charts and protocols all the time. It just stresses people out. It was the same when I was pg and my bump was smaller than it 'should' have been. And when in labour and I wasn't progressing as quickly as I 'should' have been.

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moondog · 31/08/2005 09:52

Yes,it's all bollocks isn't it?

hunkermunker · 31/08/2005 09:55

She sounds fine to me. HVs are often mental, it helps to remember that.

piffle · 31/08/2005 09:58

yep I have a tiny dd who tooks 3 weeks to regain birthweight after being born on 50th centile she went to the very bottom of the 0.4 and further down.
but she ate well, slept well, was happy alert etc
So I avoided tohe hv on the say of the paediatric consultant who hv referred us to, he said, look at the baby not the scales and you wo't go far wrong.
I later figured dd has stolen my metabolism, she can eat cakes and not get fat, but I can't anymore. But seriously if the weight and height stays pretty much on the same centiles then you are not to get too worried...

ggglimpopo · 31/08/2005 09:59

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moondog · 31/08/2005 10:01

Gawd,you learn something knew every day!
ggg was an hv,hunker is writing a book......
(What's it about hm or is it all Top Secret??)

hunkermunker · 31/08/2005 10:36

LOL! Yes, GGG, I meant you and you alone PMSL!

MD...is top secret...and not going very well atm Need motivating!

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ABow · 31/08/2005 10:41

Hunker - give us a hint and we'll tell you how wonderful it is. Will that motivate you??

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hunkermunker · 31/08/2005 10:45

LOL! Can't hint really (is an idea that could be done many ways)...but anybody who wants to tell me it's wonderful is very welcome

bobbybob · 01/09/2005 10:02

Hunker - it's wonderful.

Abow - ignore weekly weigh ins, and just get her done next time you are there.

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ABow · 01/09/2005 20:01

Hunker of course its wonderful - go make millions girl!

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Aragon · 01/09/2005 20:17

ABow - as a HV myself I'd say not to worry. She's gone from the 25th centile to the 9th - so what? Would your HV be worried if she'd gone from the 25th to the 50th?
Hang on in there - she's a happy and healthy sounding baby - go with your instincts.

Wallace · 01/09/2005 20:18

My dd's weight did the same thing at the same age. We were told not to worry, but that babies take a couple of months to find their centile

PeachyClair · 01/09/2005 20:57

HV's (IME and i've had three do this!) do tend to panic. My last baby went from 50th centile to 2nd in a few weeks. The best thing I ever did was to ask to get refered to Paeds as an emergency- just so i could hear ot from them that there was no problem!. The HV's seemed calmer then as well.

I had DS3 weighed yesterday actually, and in last few minths has gone onto 25th centile. Yay.

babies who are BF, or who have genetic histories of low weights (both in my case- DH's family are all small) don't necessarily gain at the usual centile rates, but try telling that to a HV!

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ABow · 02/09/2005 09:03

Thanks everyone. Thats really good to hear

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