ds is rather unsettled and screaming/crying a lot atm. he is still feeding loads and loads, with his usual longer couple of stretches (up to 5 hrs) at night/in the morning, and often hourly late afternoon/early eve. he does seem pretty hungry right now - and he seems to be a poor sleeper - in the day he hardly naps. . anyway, we suspected some type of trapped wind/colic, so have popped to the paediatrician (not our usual one as we are staying with sil and family for a couple of weeks). anyway, he weighed him, averaged the gain over the last three weeks since his check-up and declared it wasn't enough. on the size to weight chart he's still nearly on 50th centile and has actually moved up a bit, but he's dropped just below the third on size to age (now measures 53cm). we have been given lefax and told to go back in a week and if the gain hasn't improved he wants me to supplement with formula. of course i'm adamantly against it because of all the hard work i did to establish exclusive bf. also something he said puzzled me - i asked him if the charts were based on bf or bottlefed babies and he didn't answer the question but just said bf babies tend to be bigger! than bottlefed! thought it was the other way round?! anyway, i'm 5'1 and weighed 49kg pre-pg and dh is 5'2 and was very small as a child, how can he expect us to have an averagely big baby!
he is 7w 5d, born at 38+0, weighed 3850g today with nappy, 2820 at birth, lost over 10%, released from hosp with 2650, weighed 3480g just under 3 weeks ago without nappy, 3770 on scales borrowed from chemist on fri without nappy. he is weeing fine, pooing loads with mustard yellow poo, has good skin etc - just rather a lot of crying atm. he is feeding now - just now was really gulping it down desperately and then it looked like he burped/spit a bit up mid feed.
this is part rant, part plea for reassurance - how i hate these damn charts!