Paediatrician threatening Failure to Thrive - Page 2

[lovelylisa]

Oh dear... I pray for the best for daughter.

[longbranchedmom]

Good luck tomorrow.  I sincerely hope that all is well with your DD.

My DD was smallish at birth, 10th percentile for weight.(2.8 kg).  At her 6th month appointment, she had dropped to 5th, she is now well below the 5th on the chart (at just under 8.5 kg in her 16th month).  A few times I have heard passing mention of failure to thrive, tests to be conducted at next visit etc, etc, BUT...only by the doctors and residents who were filling in for my doctor while she was on maternity leave.  My doctor (who saw her last visit) isn't worried.

My DD is very active.  She first pulled herself to standing at 5 months, she was cruising in her 8th month, and by the end of her 9th month she could get herself up to standing unaided in the middle of the room.  She is breast fed on demand (and refuses to drink cow's millk).  She has been eating solids (with varying degrees of interest and success) since 6ish months.  She is healthy and busy, and teeny.  You'd never know by looking at myself and husband and her brother, we are all tallish and slim (slim-ish for me), but we are the giants in our family, so she has obviously gotten the teeny genetic traits that are a part of our gene pool.

Now I must go to change said DD's arse, in the last couple of weeks she has FINALLY begun to poop everyday, something that hasn't happened since she was wee...

My thoughts are with you tomorrow.  Take care and I'll keep my fingers crossed!

[themammy]

Great News.

DD had her sweat test and it came back normal. She does not have cystic fibrosis.

The last week has been nuts though. DD decided she didn't want to wait until Thursday to go to hospital - she decided to have another acute bronchial episode and we ended up in A & E last Friday night. She was admitted immediately and put on oxygen.

It was a bank holiday weekend, so no specialist staff were available until Tuesday. But once they were all back from leave, they decided to run all the tests as she was in the hospital already. I have to say, the staff were great. THAT paediatrician was there and was over-the-top nice to me. I think she'd had her knuckles rapped for our previous run-in together.

So by lunch time on Tuesday, we had the good news about cystic fibrosis. They ran loads of tests - all her organ functions, inflammation markers, absorption levels, etc. Everything came back in or around normal.   So the conclusion is that she is a chesty baby, who is a bit tiny compared to how she was born - but is generally healthy.   They reckon she never really recovered from her January bout of illness and has been constantly fighting new viral chest infections for the past 4 months, which is why her weight has struggled. We had a physio and a dietician and they were really great. So now we just have to feed her little and often, and continue with the breastfeeding.

We were discharged this morning and the hope is that now we are coming into summer, she should have a proper chance to recover. The big test will come in the autumn.  All of us kind of expect her to end up back in hospital, but she's a little fighter - so hopefully she'll prove us all wrong.

Anyway - we are thrilled. She has been in the most amazing form since she got home to her brother, her dogs and her mammy and daddy. I'm exhausted after 6 nights in the hospital - but have a huge smile on my face.

Thanks for all you support through these last few weeks.

xx  the mammy

[lovelylisa]

Thats wonderful news! I hope she feels better soon and you get some rest.

[KristyDi]

I'm so glad to read all the good news!  

I hope someone did give the hosp. ped a talking too!  How awful would it have been if your DD had had a serious illness like CF and she ignored the signs because she was obsessed with your breastfeeding.  She could have sent a seriously ill baby home rather than starting treatment of the illness.  And on top of that, a mama other than you might have listen and weaned, taking away the babe's main source of nutrition!  She absolutely deserves a dressing down for letting her (ill-informed) personal opinions get in the way of doing her job.