Should I be worried about her weight?

I’ve been logging my daughter’s weight on huckleberry and it looks like the percentile is slightly going down. Should I be worried?
Struggling with breastfeeding atm and mostly feeding her formula.

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I would reach out to your health provider rather than using the app. If in the UK there will be a clinic bearby you can pop in and check/discuss if you don't want to wait for your next appointment.

Where are you getting her weighed? The health visitors should pick up on this. For help with breastfeeding, contact your hospital to see if they have infant feeding support, otherwise I would highly recommend seeing an ibclc...it's worth the money.

I wouldn't be worried per se but I would definitely keep tracking it, as mentioned above you can visit weighing clinics locally.
What aspects of breastfeeding are you struggling with? There is a lot of support out there (for both bottle and breastfeeding) and you may be able to receive some good advice. Both my children lost weight and were slow to gain with breastfeeding. It took me a lot of basically sitting down and doing nothing but feeding some days! I also added a bedtime bottle for cals.

thank you! Where can I find the list of the clinics for help? In general I’m struggling as I breastfeed for every feed but she needs a bottle just after. I believe I have very low supply and I tried pumping and supplements too. Not sure what else to try.

The health visitors should point you in the direction of the clinics, so ask them. Please do really consider seeing an IBCLC...it is unlikely that you have a low supply that isn't related to something like latch, tongue tie, etc...which can be fixed with good support (health visitors aren't always the best with lactation support I have found so don't rely on that). It really will be worth the money. You shouldn't need to top up after a breastfeed. ..and if you do top up you should pump to increase your supply. Breastfeeding is a supply and demand process...for example if you feed 50ml extra from a bottle you need to tell your breast by pumping that your baby needed that extra milk. There are also some great Instagram accounts to follow like Lyndsey hookway, the breastfeeding doctor.

Also, if you are weighing baby yourself this could be inaccurate. With my first I tried this and the results were always different to the official weight. FYI I talk from experience...with my first, I had low supply due to tongue tie. currently I'm having to pump with every feed to maintain my supply to support my premature baby as he gets strong enough to feed properly.

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