LA's hospital journey part 1

As regular readers know LA has been diagnosed with a milk allergy and as a symptom of this her weight has always been very up and down. Since we started weaning her 2 months ago we thought her weight would even off and she'd start to steadily gain weight, alas no it didn't it instead it has rapidly dropped. 

On Tuesday 14th may 2013 I took her to be weighted at the baby clinic, I was shocked to discover that she had lost a lot of weight. When my health visitor asked what and how much she was eating I immediately thought I was doing something wrong, but my health visitor assured me that with what she was eating she should be putting on plenty of weight and she we'd be referred to a paediatrician but would have to wait a couple of months.

On the Thursday of that week LA had a paediatric dietician appointment, Cheryl our dietician again weighted LA and even though she'd eaten really really well she'd lost even more weight in the 2 days. Cheryl decided that we'd bypass the community paediatrician and phoned the hospitals children's ward to see if they were able to take a look at her,but warned them not to expect an ill looking child, they were very busy with surgical patients that day and requested that we came back as a day case the following day a 11am. 

At this point I asked Cheryl if there was any chance at all that LA would be kept in and we were told not to expect to be kept in, but expect to be there until late afternoon! 

Little did we know what would happen the following day.........

Have you been wondering why I've been quiet this week?

You may have noticed I've been a little quiet this last week on both my blog and social media. The reason for that is my gorgeous daughter LA is in hospital. Right to explain I think I'm going to do this in a few shorter posts rather than one long one. This is a tough time for me and my family so please bear with me 

Me and LA settling down for the night in ward C2 Russell's Hall Hospital 

LA's Dietician checkup

Today we took our gorgeous 7 month old daughter to the hospital for a paediatric dietician's appointment. She's been under a dietician since she was 8 weeks old as her can't sustain any weight gain, food is just a mystery to her she has never cried hungry ever!
We started weaning her at 6 months old using a mixture of baby led weaning (blw) and jars or homemade mush
Today we were told that she had lost weight since her last check up 2 months ago and is now back too monthly appointments at least until she is 1!
The dietician said we have to make her special formula more calorific by adding 9 scoops of powder to 7oz of water, and also prescribing her iron drops and multi vitamin drops.
The weaning is not going to plan she will only eat 1 solid meal a day and as also started refusing her formula as well the little monkey!
We have had a bit of success today with the blw she mullered a whole rusk in minutes hopefully that's the start of a healthy weight gain. I am sure she is trying to make certain she's the youngest sibling by causing as much worry as possible!