Dear Parents,
Need help regarding my second boy. He just turned one but is only about 7.3 kgs. He is very under weight for his age and most strangers who see him think he is only 6-mths old.
I think the reason is because since ever since he was born premature at 36 weeks, he cannot sleep through out the night, waking up every 2 to 4 hours. We trired everything that we know, changing milk bottles, formulae, having air-cond, no air-cond, fan, changing the mattress but still, is 2 am, then at 6 am. This is made worse by sometimes when he wakes up at night, he refuses to drink milk and wants water only.
He also cannot sleep more than 4-hours even during the day at the Babysitter.
We normally take him to see 2 paeds and both agree that he is very underweight but just ask us to be patient and feed him more.
It has come to a point that as I parent, I feel that I will be negilient if I don't do something more. Hence, I would like to send my son for some 'medical test'. Google shows a couple of reasons from 'Lead Poisoning' though this is unlikely as my older boy who will be 3 is normal and we live in the same house.
As a comparison, my older boy was close to 10kg when he turned one.
Sleep Apnea a condition whereby the body cannot go into deep sleep but this normally does not affect babies. I have finally pushed my paed that I want to do some test and the paed needs to consult some of her medical colleagues will revert back to me after Raya.
Appreciate any recommendation of good paeds in KL/Sgor area or any parents have experience to share.
Many thanks and happy holidays.