Curious if anyone has an overweight child and has taken them to the GP?
May I ask what happened?
DSD is on the 99th centile. Husband and his ex spoke last April regarding weight and she agreed it was an issue so they came up with a plan to get their dd more active/eating well etc.
This isn't an issue at ours, we are all healthy and healthy weight. Unfortunately, it is from dsd mum and eating habits. They are both very overweight.
Husband has tried again to speak to his ex but she's very hostile and won't communicate regarding their daughter and is now ignoring him.
Due to the distance, we only see dsd in school half terms and holidays.
We are now planning on taking dsd to the GP re her health when she is with us in Easter and wondering what they will do? If anything?
The kick in the teeth part is, that the last few weeks she's been back home, her mum has been transferring money into her go Henry which we set up for her, and she's bought numerous McDonald's and other junk food with it. It's almost like she's doing it on purpose but surely not..
This isn't an isolated issue unfortunately. There are other things going on such as 82% attendance at school, frequently poorly, sleeping on the floor etc etc.
But we really want to address the weight issue as we know that it will cause mental and physical problems if not sorted! She starts senior school in September.