Growth Assessments

I've been worried that Dom is losing weight so the nurse at our family doctor did a growth assessment on Dominic today. He is 93cm tall, his head is 51cm around (massive is what she said!) but his weight is only 13.2kg. He is well under weight for his height even though he has a three good and balanced meals a day and morning and afternoon tea. I pretty much feed him when ever he is hungry, he is not eating as much as he used to though. I weighed him a couple of weeks a go and he was 14kg so in 2 weeks he has lost 800grms . He has also been complaining that he has a sore tummy and a sore penis and is often very tired but the dr found nothing obviously wrong with him so he is getting blood and stool tests tomorrow.
My instincts are telling me there is something not right with my little boy but I don't know what. I just hope and pray its nothing serious. I'm so worried.

Lets hope your scales are just inaccurate.  I know my weight can fluctuate that much depending on when I've been to the loo etc

 

Also, dont appetites often reduce as the growth slows?

Hugs Saffron. Hopefully nothing is wrong - it is always worrying when kiddies lose weight. If he has been complaining of being sore, it is good that they are checking it out, particularly if your gut is telling you something isn't quite right.

Having said that, his stats aren't too bad. I use this site as a point of reference - all the measurements are based on the WHO growth charts. He might just be tall for his age.

http://www.infantrefluxdisease.com/infant-growth-percentile-calculator.php

hopefully its nothing at all, or maybe a bug or something thats given him a sore belly - has he been going to the loo a lot.

Fingers crossed all the tests go ok!!

I used the plunket scales. I have been looking at his weight measurements and he was 12kgs at 16months old and is only 13.2kgs now. He has lost 800grms but even without losing that it would have only been a 2kg weight gain in 7months. The practice nurse and plunket nurse both are using the phrase 'failure to thrive', gives me such a sick feeling, I feel like a terrible mum.
He had his blood tests this morning and he was so brave, didn't even cry but spent the rest of the morning holding his arm out from his body. Also had to do a stool sample this morning, yuck!.
Should have the results next week.

Failure to thrive is such a horrible term. I had a boss who hated it (I work in health) b/c she thought it made mums feel guilty. At the time I didn't understand why the term would make them feel that way (pre-baby). The moment the GP wrote Daniel's referral for FTT I immediately understood what my boss was on about.