Hi, some might remember that I posted a while back on advice hv had given me about getting my then 10 month old ds3 to put on weight.
So now same health visitor has just been to do his 12 month check.
She weighs him and he is on very low centile, can't remember which, but he stated off on 91st.
He loves boob and still feeds every 1-2 hours, has 6floz of formula a day and very little solid food.
Now I don't much care about his size. What does concern me is some things that hv said and I would like advice from sage people! She said:
My milk dies not contain nearly enough iron or calories, he will become anaemic and it will affect internal organ development.
I should be feeding him milk a maximum of 3x per day, the rest should be other liquids.
His constant request for boob will affect his general development, he will not be able to develop fine motor skills because he is still acting like a little baby basically.
That I should be offering him some solid food every hour.
I said I didn't want to stop feeding him, that he had been poorly these last two weeks and had only wanted my milk, fair enough surely?
She said he should be coming to me for love and cuddles that was NOT associated with milk/food. That when he comes to me whimpering and pawing for boob that I should distract him.
Basically that I was not doing him any favours physically or developmentally and that it was up to me to change the behaviour patterns.
I feel a bit
Am I SO very wrong here? If I am I would rather hear it from those whose advice I trust, i.e wise m'netters, then from my hv who, however well meaning, I think is grossly misinformed.