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Rant about healthcare professionals who can’t plot a baby’s weight correctly.

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seaborgium · 11/02/2022 12:41

They never get it right.

DS’s red book got his birth weight wrong. At three weeks our health visitor plotted his weight at the four week mark. At 6 weeks the GP plotted his weight, length and head circumference at the 8 week mark. At 12 weeks another HV plotted his weight at the 15 week mark. At 28 weeks a third HV plotted his weight at the 26 week mark. At 44 weeks (10 months) the same HV recorded his age as 43 weeks and plotted his weight at the 43 week mark and his length and head circumference at the 11 month mark.

I should add that when he was weighed at 12 weeks it looked like he’d lost weight due to dodgy scales. Always take a 1kg bag of sugar with you when you take your baby to be weighed because sometimes those scales are way out.

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lucylucyapplejuicy · 11/02/2022 12:56

And here's me feeling bad because I've not had my DS weighed since he was 8 weeks (he's 15 months now haha) I saw a health visitor once

dannydyerismydad · 11/02/2022 13:31

As a toddler DS went to the HV for a weighing.

The same day he hurt himself and ended up in A&E where they also weighed him. There was more than a kg difference in weight between the 2 scales. It's insane.

If you're going to be fixated on weight at least double and triple check your data.

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