Hi there
DD2 is currently being treated for slow weight gain and is seeing a pediatrician. She's on the 4% with weight, down from 50% at birth. One issue is that she was a month early and the whole charting of her weight has been weird - people may have been accounting for the early birth differently each time. Developmentally she is otherwise absolutely fine - perky, interested, babbling, has been maybe a bit ahead of her peers in some areas like crawling and pulling herself up, but doesn't have any teeth whereas they do, the normal mixed bag sort of thing that comes with most babies. She's now 9 mo.
Anyway, she was poorly last week and we saw the pediatrician again, not for the weight gain but for the fever. Our GP sent us to her - I should emphasize we are in the UK. The ped sidestepped the fever issue and went back to the weight - turns out she had lost a bit(I'm talking a few ounces), which she has never done before. Always before she'd gained but just not that much. She'd been poorly with the cold for about six days.
Now the ped is suddenly on about feeding tubes in four weeks if we don't turn things around.
The next day there is a letter from our previous appt 3 wks ago and some of the information is wrong.
I am also going back to work tomorrow - yikes - and wanted her support for work so that I could work from home with the nanny there to make sure we could track what's she's eating and she had enough one on one attention to eat. The nursery we've booked I don't think will be able to cope. She won't write a letter or anything like that to help me negotiate this with work, she thinks the baby should go to nursery and we should 'see how they get on' and 'get the baby away from the boob.' (I am still breast feeding - DD2 is also allergic to cow's milk and hasn't taken to the the nutramigen.) If it doesn't work, she says, then feeding tube.
I think this is nonsense. But I am quite scared about what might happen if I refuse to go down this route.
Has anyone sorted out a second opinion or does anyone know what mgith happen if we decide not to go with the doctor's recommendations?
I am from the US and have had various consultations over the phone with a ped there who has seen her. She suggested some other routes. One of them the ped we are seeing her said no, the others I haven't run by her yet. I believe it is possible that this ped is missing some underlying problems and just focusing on getting her on the bottle. I would like to have someone else look over her notes afresh and tell me what they think. How possible is this???]
Sorry for long post, thanks so much in advance.
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