18 May 2010 - Meeting A Dietitian

Today, 18 May 2010, we went for the rescheduled visit with the Dr at KK Nilai concerning Iman's weight.  The Dr's waiting room were packed with people and Iman and my husband went out for some air and because Iman didn't `like' it in there.  At last we went in to see the Dr (she).  She didn't commented on the BMI (when I brought up the subject) may be because they didn't record any height measurement.  She quickly emphasized on the weight graph which Iman had exceeded the `normal' curve and into the`red zone' but didn't comment anything about Iman's static weight for the past 2 visits.  She also told us that the government is trying to control the obesity in babies in order to reduce heart problem in the future.  I was not happy with her at all.  After hearing my explanation of Iman food intake, she told us to reduce her milk intake to twice a day and food to be increase to trice a day.  Then she refered us to the dietitian.  Luckily the dietitian was in and we went straight to see her or else we have to come back another day.
The dietitian was also hoping that the height reading was available for her to calculate BMI.  But it seemed that nothing could be done.  Hhhmm... she was quite surprised when told Iman's food intake pattern which shouldn't be the problem for her weight.  Except for her milk intake, the dietitian advice us to give her 3 times a day and 250 ml each time.  She couldn't give me the conversion from ml to oz when asked.  She did try to flip over her reference book on her table (the only one that she had !!) and couldn't find it.  She did agree with me that it was not fair to say that Iman was obese based on the weight graph only.  She also said that Iman didn't seem `chubby'.  From her birth weight, she said Iman can be considered as `big baby'.  Well, Iman is always `chubby' to us (and to most people who saw her) from the very beginning.  I remembered when my third sister's sister in law kept on saying that Iman was `big' when she first saw her  (Iman was 5 months at that time).
I conclude that from today's visit, Iman's so called obesity was still not confirmed. 
What a day !!
Tomorrow will be Iman's first visit to see the Occupational Therapist at Serdang Hospital, I wonder what will happen there ...