H/V advising to start giving my, EBF 20 week old dd, solids due to slow weight gain, any advice?

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The H/V has been out every week/2 weeks since the begining of Jan to weigh my DD as she dropped to the 25th in Dec. She has continued to gain slowly since then. H/V has previously advised topping up with EBM/FF but DD won't take a bottle (whole other thread) so I've continued to EBF on demand and try and watch cues, feed her before she cries in hunger etc etc.

Any way H/V has just weighed her again DD has gained a bit and is just on the 25th centile H/V basically said if I wanted she would refer DD to a dietician or I could start her on solids now or just continue with EBF

I'm not sure what I should do, on the one hand H/V is saying not to worry too much about charts as long as DD is gaining she is ok, on the other she asked if I'm topping her up, do I want DD to be referred to a dietcian and is coming out to my home every 2 weeks to weigh DD.

So any advice about slow weight gain or starting solids earlier would be great!

Isn't the 'prob' with baby rice that as it takes longer to be digested it will in effect replace bm and therfore reduce the overall calorie intake? I may be wrong , I am about most things at the moment!

@ VeronicaCake

I don't understand why an HV would want to refer a 25th centile 20 w/o to a Dietitian unless she was on the 91st centile the week before or there was another problem.

My DS was born on 91st and 25-50th by 20 weeks - it was quite a gradual slide thru centiles but he was fine, healthy and happy - my family tends to give birth to HUGE babies that all end up a little skinnier than average - BF or FF.

The HV I saw today (at a baby gathering at the local children's centre rather than a specific HV visit IYSWIM) said that the weighing guidelines they're following now is even less often than monthly - just at immunisations, so I'm not "due" any more weigh-ins until DD is a year old (she's nearly 6 months old now)!! So I would certainly think the HV is weighing your baby too often when you consider that LO has been tracking a sensible centile.

PS my DD is on the 2nd centile so mch smaller than yours - but she's fine and dandy.