anyone else not quite trust their local baby clinic?

[Ktothema]

Very weird thing to post I know!

With Dd she always gained weight but her line never went along and she dropped 2 percentiles. My oh had to change his day at home working, so we started taking her to another clinic and her weight leapt up and has steadily tracked along a line. We thought it may have been down to her weaning rather than the clinic change, though there was a couple of incidents where everybody they weighed hadn't gained enough weight (at the old clinic) but they refused to acknowledge their scales may be off. Dd has always been off the chart tall and is slimmer than other kids but not massively so.

Anyway, ds comes along and he's doing fantastically for all the midwife visits. Then I had to go to the local clinic to get signed off and now ds has dropped over 2 percentiles since. I don't believe it is happening again, especially as ds is giant even in comparison with his sister though hes not as tall. This weekend we had to buy a birth to 4 car seat as he's totally outgrown his infant seat. He's in 9-12 clothes, though that's more of a length thing although they're not mega baggy. He downs 5 bottles of 270ml in a day as well as beginning to take a small amount of puree. He has those gorgeous rings of chubbiness around his wrists

Has this happened to anyone else? Or could I be right wondering if its my local centre and start taking him to the other clinic?

 

[Sproglet]

Easiest way to check would be to take him to one and the the other, even if it's on different days his weight shouldn't differ by more than a few oz. Or weigh him at home and compare to both clinics' scales.

Scales are often a litte bit out, in my red book it recommends taking them to the same clinic each time, but surely it shouldn't be much?

 

[Bex84]

Yes i had this happen. My lo suposidly lost weight when she was about 9 months they wanted me to get her checked a week later and i went to a different clinic who said she had put on over a pound, with the hvs at our clinic they dont always let the scales settle. I have taken to checking lo on scales at home

 

[Ktothema]

Thanks Sproglett. We used to weigh Dd at home also and there was a large difference until we went to the other clinic, when it was almost the same (sometimes a little up, sometimes a little down but about right).

Ds is showing he's over a pound higher on our scales which is similar to Dd. Think we may be better off trying ds at the other clinic too.

 

[Ju_bubbs]

I've always stuck to using my own scales at home, rather than different sets of scales at a clinic.

I had similar happen while I was pregnant with number 1! Was rushed to hospital after a routine midwife appt as she couldn't hear LO's heartbeat.. turned out her doppler was broken!

 

[Ktothema]

Thanks Bex! That makes me feel a lot better. I have friend who's moved and has found her kids suddenly gained weight too but she never got them weighed all that often and figured they'd just leapt.

 

[Ktothema]

Oh my god Ju, that must have been terrifying. Glad there was nothing wrong.

 

[Ktothema]

A long overdue update.

Finally got ds weighed again. We've been weighing him at home (and strangely in mother care as they have the same scales as the clinics), and made sure he's tracking along well. Weighed him today prior to going to a different centre.

They weighed him a little under but I sort of expected that, but up a percentile. Exactly the same thing as happened to Dd but this was a different centre too. Think I'm going to trust my judgement and avoid my local centre, and carry on making sure he's tracking well at home.

 

[rose.]

My baby was in hospital a couple of weeks ago with the winter vomiting bug and when he got weighed they said it was the equivalent of 8.5lbs. He was 8lb 4.5 oz when he was born and 9lb earlier in the week he went to hospital! I panicked and was horrified he had lost so much in a few days. He was weighed in hospital on the Saturday and then weighed the following Thursday - he was 9lb 11oz!! There is no way he could have gained a pound and a half in 5 days especially when he wasn't eating much on Sunday or Monday. So if the hospital got it that wrong, I'm sure your local clinic could! It's terrible, they cause so much unnecessary worry.

 

[Ktothema]

I'm sorry that happened to you Rose. You really didn't need that after all the stress you were already going through. Gkad lo is better

 

[rose.]

Thanks! They were very reassuring saying that weight loss is normal when babies are sick, but its just the fact that they were so wrong which is very worrying. Makes me wonder how many others it has happened to