Trapper John wrote:At the risk of boring people, some might know I had a granddaughter born 2 weeks ago tomorrow.
I am still over the moon but some of that elation has gone with news that she has not put on any weight since birth and in fact has lost quite a bit, relatively speaking, from a birth weight of 9lb 3 oz.
Now I'm not sure of all the facts and details but I think that at an 11% or more drop from birth weight initiates the midwife referring the baby to hospital, which has been done. Trying to be brief, this has resulted in several overnight stays in the past 10 days.
During these times lots of tests have been done, including bloods and even overseeing my daughter's feeding procedure and methods, these were fine and they can find no underlying medical problems. In fact they say she is a normal healthy baby in every other respect than this and are at a loss to explain it. Currently she is back at home.
At this point she has not lost any more weight but hasn't gained any either. Now Friday just gone, the health visitor turned up and within 10 minutes so did the midwife, as she is getting daily visits at present. There was some disagreement between these two ladies which wasn't resolved when they both eventually left.
An hour or so later, the health visitor returned saying she wasn't happy leaving things as they were and had made an appointment for that afternoon with a doctor at the children's unit at the hospital, all previous visits had been to the natal unit. He repeated the tests for his own peace of mind and found everything to be ok.
Baby is now under him as an outpatient and they are due back to see him on Monday.
What I'd like to know is how long they will let this carry on before someone does something about it, FFS? it just seems to me that because she hasn't lost any more weight they are sitting back waiting until she does before they decide to do anything else, whatever that might be?
The way I look at it, she may not be dangerously under weight at the moment and 'stabilised' but there has to be a reason as to why she isn't taking on calories or nutrients.....what are we supposed to wait until this affects her little body, possibly causing irreversible damage until they are prepared to delve into it further? FFS!
I'm more than a bit angry and really worried, do you think I'm 'overracting' and it's best to leave it in the hands of 'experts' or are my concerns valid?
PS. Does anyone else know of similar cases? ..... only a midwife at the hospital told my daughter's partner that she has only ever seen this loss of weight when a baby can't keep it's food down, for medical reasons or sometimes in premature births. None of these apply to my granddaughter.
