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Weighing LO & health visitors
Hello all,
Hope you and lo are all well. How often to you weigh your lo, and how often do you see your hv?
Esme was last weighed at 6 weeks at her check-up with the dr, the last time we saw the HV was at 5 weeks, when she said she wouldn't be visiting again until E was 12 weeks. There are open sessions at the health centre where I can get her weighed, but I've just missed the closest one (only every 2nd and 4th Thursdays), so it will be another 3 weeks. I'm not particularly concerned - she's out-growing her clothes so quickly and is eating well - but wondered what others were doing?
Thanks, E & E
Hope you and lo are all well. How often to you weigh your lo, and how often do you see your hv?
Esme was last weighed at 6 weeks at her check-up with the dr, the last time we saw the HV was at 5 weeks, when she said she wouldn't be visiting again until E was 12 weeks. There are open sessions at the health centre where I can get her weighed, but I've just missed the closest one (only every 2nd and 4th Thursdays), so it will be another 3 weeks. I'm not particularly concerned - she's out-growing her clothes so quickly and is eating well - but wondered what others were doing?
Thanks, E & E
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Lovely choice of name by the way my LO is called Esme Lola X
We have a clinic every tuesday between 2-3.30 so i'll most probably take him to his 6wk check then he'll have jabs and weighted at 8weeks and then take him once a month after that.
I think I did that with DD till eventually i kept forgetting to go and they then only saw DD at her 18month and 3 year check. The health vistor did weight Isobel today though and she's below centile and she shuv's food away so i duno where she's putting it. She weights 2stone 4lbs and she is coming up to 4years she's quiet leggie though so she's probably just gonna be tall an slender.
HV didnt really give me any insite either though as Marley keeps coughing after feeds doesnt do it any time but sometimes u see it catching his breath. She just said give him a drink of cool boiled water after his feed which i cnt see doing nething...
Zowen - will they weigh lo a her immunisations?
Out of both pregnancys it was my cwm that spent the most time with us during and after she come see us every week up until discharghe at 4 wks and each time wud stay 4 half hour. On her first visit she was hear nearly an hour admiring Marley. Even at the weekly clinic viits she would always want a catch up she was so luvly. We even checked to see when she was going back into labour ward an how long for. As I couldnt imagine havin to use a dif midwife nw she was wicked
The health visitor came out to see Evie at home when she was 2 weeks and 4 weeks old. I think that's it for home visits now unless I specifically request one. I had Evie weighed yesterday at the post natal group that's run by health visitors. She has gained just over a pound each time she's been weighed and is now 11lbs 12oz at 6 and a half weeks old
Hope evryones doing well x
He does get weighed every 4 weeks by his research midwife as he is part of a milk study run by the institute of child health.
She will have her jabs in about 2 and a half weeks so I guess she'll get weighed then.
Not sure if it will help, but when E was born the MV recommended making sure she was never completely naked when changing her - so always a nappy or vest on.
If it's any consolation E wasn't weighed before her injections this morning, I just had to take her bottoms off. It does mean I now need to take her to a clinic to be weigh. It's been about a month and i'd like an idea of how she's doing, esp. as the nurse who gave her injections kept saying how small she was and has got me worried!
Hope you find a solution ,
E x
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