Iron testing

consultants don’t recommended routine testing without a concern as lots of babies will be low x

sleep consultant is concerned and has asked we get her tested but GP isn’t wanting to

I think the guidelines are fairly set on testing babies, I doubt they will want to test based on sleep advice. Our boy has been on sytron since birth (he was prem) and in fairness his levels aren’t improving very quickly so they keep doubling his dose etc, I spoke to his consultant and they said it’s very common for this age group to be low and they are only treating him because of his prematurity, and it will self correct when he’s eating more varied diet etc. x