Baby weighed incorrectly

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So we had our 8-12m review, and developmentally my Son is doing well. But there are issues with his length/weight/head circumference. Basically we have been recalled back to clinic in a few weeks for another review as the nurse that did his review believes he may not have been weighed and measured correctly. I have been taking him to be weighed monthly. They cannot be sure he was weighed correctly at birth, as at present they dont know when the inaccuracies crept in. Is there anything I can do about this? Obviously I'm not happy about it for my Son's health reasons, and from a more sentimental point, all his keepsake's could now have an incorrect weight on them and I've kept a baby record book which I have completed using the weight/length info I was given at the time. And now we cant ever go back and find out what he weighed at birth and other stages of his life. So where do I go from here??

Do you mean they're saying he's been weighed incorrectly once or every single time you've been for a weigh in? As I can't really see how absolutely every single time, multiple people will have measured him wrongly and it's not been picked up until now. My baby is 8 months and we've seen over a dozen people since he was born. I guess there's no way of knowing now if he was weighed wrong when he was born as you can't go back and check, but surely you'd have questioned it at the time if you felt it was miles off? (Eg they told you he weighed 10lbs but he looked really small, or when you talked to your mum friends and said my baby weighs X, if they looked surprised etc, or if your baby looks different to other babies of supposedly the same ish weight) Presumably your baby's weight etc was also recorded in his red book? What percentile has he been tracking, and have their been any concerns raised prior to this? At this stage you just need to go back to the next appointment and take it from there, and if you feel there is scope for a complaint then I'd probs take it up with the maternity unit initially (contact PALS) if they feel he was incorrectly weighed at birth.

Can you be more specific about what has happened? As the previous poster says, it would seem very odd for his measurements to be consistently recorded incorrectly on multiple occasions.

The length/height of babies is notoriously difficult to do accurately and I’d expect some possible variation or inconsistency there. However weight and head circumference should be much more consistent. I’d be very concerned about a potential health or developmental issue being brushed off as inexplicably measurement errors. Can you ask a senior person at the clinic to talk through it all with you and to ensure any necessary checks for whatever might be indicated by the measurements be carried out? Simply saying the data are wrong without a very clear reason why would not be acceptable, I think.

I don’t say this to worry you - there’s an overwhelming chance that everything is just fine - but from the rather confusing information you’ve given, I would not like to be brushed off by someone saying “all the other measurements were wrong”

A mistake was made when DD's weight was recorded at birth. DH was there at the weighing and told me the result. It was only later that we noticed that a '0' had been recorded as an '8'.

The problem started when DD was weighed at the HV clinic and it looked as though she'd lost almost 2lbs in a very short space of time. The only way to show that there wasn't a problem was to keep the appointments that were made for her so that they could see that she was in fact following a centile line - even if it wasn't the one that they thought she should be on(!).

I don't think there's much that you can do really.

No one will ever know as it’s been and gone. Why at this stage has it been decided an error has been made? Doesn’t make much sense