And so it began......

Everything was fine until, at about 6 weeks her slow weight gain became non-existent and the HV asked me to wake her and feed more often. Despite this she began to lose weight and I changed to mixed breast/bottle feeding to see if it helped. All that did was prove just how little she took and within a few days she began to vomit back most of that. At about the same time she also began to get breathless and sweaty at feeds. My HV wasn’t happy and at the next baby clinic we saw the paed who did a monthly clinic. She did a full exam and took some bloods. A few days later she rang me at home with the results (why didn’t alarm bells ring at this point?) and asked me to take Emily to the GP and give him the results. Our GP didn’t seem concerned at all but at my insistence referred her to our local children’s ward.