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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“You Just Have To Force Her To Drink The PediaSure.”
“You just have to force her to drink the PediaSure.” – Pedatrician to mother of a one year old who was not yet at the 50th percentile for height and weight.
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o.O My daughter still isn’t at 50th percentile for anything. And she’s perfectly healthy. She’s just smaller! It’s called a percentile because 50% of babies fall above the 50th and 50% fall below. It’s not that difficult a concept.
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Serene Reply:
February 16th, 2012 at 5:31 am (Quote)
Sounds like my youngest! At 15% for everything excep head circumference (she’s at 85% for that!), and one eejit doc freaked because my other 2 were in 95th for everything, so since she was so much smaller than her siblinds, something MUST be wrong with her (well, yeah, its called thyrotoxicosis Doc and its IN HER CHART and thats why Im here!)
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Then I guess I should be shoving it down my daughters throat then.. She’s been consistently in the 10th percentile her whole life. Clearly this doc doesn’t have kids! Has anyone ever successively forced a 1-year-old to do ANYTHING they didn’t want to do?
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at least for eating
If everyone were above average, they’d have to change the average. Someone has to be the smallest, and the biggest, thinnest, fattest, etc.
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Kristy Reply:
February 13th, 2012 at 6:59 pm (Quote)
No, no… don’t you see? It will still be the average if we are *all* at the 50%ile. Then *everyone* is the smallest, biggest, thinnest, fattest… because we don’t let anyone become a 51st %ile porker or a a 49th %ile weakling. *Same* is the only safe weight. Just ask the doctor.
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My son is underweight, and my doctor told me the same thing. I thought it was so stupid. My son doesn’t drink milk, so how am I supposed to get him to drink this toddler formula? I decided that I will just focus harder on solids and pump breastmilk to hide in his juice. Hopefully that will ensure that he gets enough nutrients, not weighs a magic number. I don’t want what happened to my little sister to happen to my son-the doctor said to give pediasure and let her have anything she wants. Now she’s obese.
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Veronica Reply:
February 13th, 2012 at 7:13 pm (Quote)
Yes doc, giving everything a toddler wants to them is always a good idea. My daughter would live off chocolate and lollipops if that were the case!
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Kasondra Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 5:50 am (Quote)
Like, I’ve been known to say “Sometimes calories are calories…” but I’m usually referring to when a kid is sick and won’t eat or when a mom has HE and pukes constantly. When my 2.5yo had a high fever all he wanted was popsicles…but after the fever subsided we went back to a normal diet.
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So does that mean that noone can be healthy and bellow the 50% percentile? Hmm doc, your logic is a FAIL.
If she was in the 10% percentile for weight, and at the previous check-up was 50th… and height had been 30th and went to 50th THEN it might signal a problem. That is what my pediatrician told me also.
As long as a baby/child is following THEIR curb, and growing, gaining weight hitting other milestones all is good. Also if they are on or near the same percentile for height and weight. (Meaning not 5th for height and 90th for weight… or vice versa!)
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Jessica Reply:
February 13th, 2012 at 7:22 pm (Quote)
“Also if they are on or near the same percentile for height and weight. (Meaning not 5th for height and 90th for weight… or vice versa!)”
Well, not necessarily. My first 2 kids were looooong and lean. My son was 5% for weight, but 75% for height. My daughter has always been off the charts tall, has her own line on the chart in fact, lol. But always 50% or so for weight. This just reinforces that every child is different, and going solely (or at all, for that matter!) by what some chart says is nonsense.
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Mama_de_Gabi_y_Mari Reply:
February 13th, 2012 at 11:03 pm (Quote)
My oldest has always been at or below the 25th percentile for weight (usually closer to 10th actually) and above the 75th for height (usually closer to the 90th). Our doctor always tells me that as long as she stays along the same curve, we don’t need to worry about it. She is just long and lean. She is 36″ and weighs 24 lbs at almost 2 years old.
My youngest is only 7 weeks old but so far she is between 25-50th percentile for weight and 75-90th for height. If she grows at a similiar rate as her sister she will end up at being around 25 for weight and 90 for height.
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I was 97th percentile in height and 4th percentile in weight until I was nearly 20!!! (at age 17, I was 5’10″, and 95lbs). Seriously! And I am a healthy, average weight adult now. Some kids are just skinny!!!
(Here’s a calculator for older kids:
http://pediatrics.about.com/cs/usefultools/l/bl_kids_centils.htm )
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Wow. My son’s a bohemeth then. Maybe I should bind his legs so he won’t grow and starve him too since his height and weight have always been above the 85th percentile.
At his last physical, his height was 87th percentile, weight was 92nd percentile. I got told by his doc that he needed to go on a diet and stop getting so much junk food. I think they saw obese momma and assumed I always fed him junk food. Um, no, sorry. Kid eats better than I do and I eat junk so he can eat healthy (we were that broke at the time). Turns out he was about to go through a growth spurt. A month later at his WIC appointment his height had jumped to 89th percentile and weight down to 90th percentile. Yeah, doc. He’s just fine.
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Jenny Islander Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 11:14 am (Quote)
I am also a fat momma with a big husky boy. Luckily our family practice recognizes that a very tall boy with broad shoulders who lifts things that most kids his age can’t even push does not need a restricted diet. He had a checkup after he had puke-itis and the doctor even told me to feed him bacon and eggs because he had fallen off his personal growth curve! So there are non-fat-phobic doctors out there. I wish there were more of them.
Back on topic: Force-feeding? So you want this little girl to develop an aversion to eating and drinking? Perhaps anorexia?
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Ness had this to say,
Feb 13, 2012 @ 8:45 pm (Quote)
Neither of my bids have ever been below the 90th percentile, and rarely below the 95th, for both height and weight. Should I just stop feeding them?! This whole “normal” thing drives me crazy. I thought we were all taught “every one is different” as children.
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Wow, and I was annoyed with my pediatrician for pushing hard for my 5th percentile baby to gain weight. She was consistent in that her first two years, born at 5 lb 9 oz and full term, but ate a lot and was very active. She finally hit the 20th percentile at about 2.5 years, so I don’t hear so much about her weight now.
Most annoying part was that the ped kept insisting that the slow weight gain was due to breastfeeding, even after solids were started, and kept trying to get me to quit. The ped never bothered to ask about activity, other eating habits, etc, and never paid attention to the fact that my daughter was in the 20th percentile for height most that time, so not that skinny for her size. Nope, all about that number.
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This is pretty much why I don’t even do ‘well baby’ checks. When baby is well they want to meddle even if there’s no sign, other than some chart or numbers, that anything is wrong. They believe all babies must do exactly the same things at the same time (except for milestones of course, because we should never check anything out if a baby is late on any milestones, it might worry the mother. If they just checked when my mum told them a child was unusually behind they would have found my blindness early enough for early intervention therapies, and my sisters ear problems early enough that they could have taught her to speak properly before she could read!) But no, babies always develop very differently when it comes to milestones, just not when it comes to weight and height!!!
On the other hand, if baby is sick they don’t want to know, all my doctors will ever say is that she’s teething, so obviously nothing else could ever be wrong, ever. (I’ve had to self diagnose and self treat any issue she’s had since birth, which thankfully was just mild silent reflux, and one cold with high fever that had her rather lethargic, and an awful periodic nappy rash that seems to be an allergy I can’t identify the cause of but, of course, is ‘just teething’ <_<.) But that's no suprise, I can't think of a single time in my entire adult life where the doctor has figured out what's wrong before I have, and the one time I couldn't work out what was wrong, the doctor gave up looking when the symptoms disapeared! (If it happens again I have my suspicions due to symptoms that have come up since.)
Well, at least I know doctors are consistent in their bad care!
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Bonita Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 2:50 am (Quote)
I had a ped like that for my son. DS was 6 months old, had only grown 3 oz in two months, had eczema all over his body and had blood in his stool. The dr had just finished his half hour harassment over vaccines and I finally got a word in edgewise and mentioned that I was worried about the symptoms my DS was showing. He said “what am I supposed to do about that?! You wont’ listen to anything I have to say. You want my advice?! Give him formula!”.
I reported him and got ds into a different dr the next day who diagnosed him with a milk protein intolerance. I stopped eating dairy, ds started gaining weight.
I also had a different ped try to diagnose my oldest daughter’s rash on her face as eczema when she was 4 months old. I took her to another dr the next day and she was diagnosed with impetigo.
My BS meter when it comes to drs is very low after watching my mother get sent to inpatient psch evals for years before someone finally diagnosed her with fibromyalgia and told her that she wasn’t crazy.
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Mama Wrench Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 8:29 am (Quote)
Your poor boy! Thank you for listening to your Mommy Metre and getting a second opinion — and for reporting Doctor Neglect!
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Kat Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 8:11 pm (Quote)
“He said “what am I supposed to do about that?! You wont’ listen to anything I have to say. You want my advice?! Give him formula!”.
I reported him and got ds into a different dr the next day who diagnosed him with a milk protein intolerance.”
Geez! Can you imagine how sick your baby would have gotten if you followed that awful advice?!
Milk protein allergy/intolerance is also a good reason to selectively vaccinate if you vaccinate at all, due to certain shots having casein in them.
My 4th child was covered in a really icky looking rash (that’s a technical term) at 6 weeks old. Milk protein sensitivity. I avoided all dairy, his rash went away.
Doctors don’t know everything! The best ones are the ones who acknowledge this, and don’t act like all medical knowledge begins and ends at the end of their nose.
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Jane Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 3:55 am (Quote)
Some doctors take the easy way out and just don’t bother doctoring because 95% of their patients will be *just fine* even if they do nothing at all.
My first baby, only one day old, had HORRIBLE swelling in his eye, thick yellow pus coming from the corner of his eye, and the eyelid and side of his head were hot to the touch with the skin bright red. The side of his face was distended with what was obviously an infection. The other eye was fine. The pediatrician and nurses kept telling me he was FINE and that was NORMAL and I was just a neurotic new mom. I kept kicking up a fuss until the pediatrician said, “Fine, we’ll culture it just to make you feel better.”
Result? Three day NICU stay on IV antibiotics for a staph infection in his eye.
So I totally see what you mean: some doctors like to argue about weight and height when they’re slightly off the growth curve, but when presented with an actual, real problem, those same doctors will tell you it’s normal, normal, normal. And the problem is, you don’t know you have one of those doctors until you need medical help and they start blowing you off. 
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Michelle Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 7:26 am (Quote)
I am always very suspicious when a doctor finds something wrong and the mother had *no idea* anything was wrong. As a mom, I don’t know very much about medicine. What I know is *my child*, and I know if something is strange or out of the ordinary for my child.
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Stephanie P Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 10:43 am (Quote)
Just a thought on the diaper rash… If it’s a yeast infection, any sort of pH imbalance can cause it to act up. I’d also read that disposable diaper wipes actually feed the yeast and cause the infection to flourish in some babies. If you haven’t done this already, perhaps consider using baby facecloths with a little water (and maybe baby soap) to clean at each diaper change, and then let baby go diaper free. If it clears up that way, chances are it’s not an allergy. If after a few days of trying that it’s as bad (or worse) I wonder if you could insist on an allergy test. Sounds like your doc isn’t keen on ordering any meaningful testing for your child, which I can imagine is so frustrating!
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Lizzie K Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 8:39 pm (Quote)
All three of my boys get what a doctor diagnosed as “yeast infections” when they drink lemonade or orange juice, anything that has a high acid content. We actually only have to worry about it with the youngest, since the other two are out of diapers, but it worried the heck out of me when my oldest developed it the first time. He went from no sign of any rash to completely red bottom with sores (sorry if TMI) overnight. We took him to the ER where, luckily, they didn’t just dismiss our fears or accuse us of being horrible parents (which I felt like I was anyway) and told us to keep acidic drinks away. The Desitin Creamy also helped. (nothing else, it had to be that exact one) So when it showed up in our second boys, I knew what it was and was able to get it cleared pretty easy. We decided to be safe and not give our youngest any acidic drinks, but gave him pink lemonade one day without thinking and found out he suffers from it, too.
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road2vba2c had this to say,
Feb 14, 2012 @ 4:36 am (Quote)
I don’t think anyone else has pointed out one important thing. You can bring a child to Pediasure, but you can’t make them drink. In my mind’s eye, I see this coming from a very young, male, single, childless pediatrician.
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karen had this to say,
Feb 14, 2012 @ 8:23 am (Quote)
One of my children *did* have a growth disorder. You know what the specialists said? Unless she was completely off the chart for her age (she was about the 5th%) they really weren’t concerned as long as she was hitting all her developmental milestones. You can have a well nourished developmentally appropriate child who is tiny and a malnourished, developmentally delayed child who is of average height and weight. Growth charts are nothing more than a very general guideline.
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lilmrsmchenry had this to say,
Feb 14, 2012 @ 8:32 am (Quote)
Pfffft. Are you or my insurance going to pay for it?
That stuff is expensive!I should know, my 3 year old is going through an “I will only eat about 10 bites of food in a day.” phase. Instead of fighting with him and forcing him to eat we compromise on him drinking a “special chocolate milk” when he is not eating enough. I can’t wait until he grows out of this because it is killing my grocery budget.
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christine Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 2:50 pm (Quote)
buy slimfast or boost or any other “meal replacement” drink, you get more for less money, especially if you get generic. My 10 yr old is a pretty picky eater, luckily I can get him to drink a can a day to boost his calorie intake. It’s not “real” food, but it helps.
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RM Reply:
February 15th, 2012 at 11:21 am (Quote)
Save yourself some pennies and check out introducing green smoothies. You’ll get much more nutritional bang for you buck than some crappy processed drink. Plus, the whole family will enjoy them. I like greensmoothiegirl.com to start. There’s even a video on there from one mother who introduced them into her child’s diet after she was diagnose with failure to thrive. Ultimate success because these greens are just packed full of all of the building blocks our bodies need!
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Mama Wrench Reply:
February 15th, 2012 at 11:26 am (Quote)
I second that, but they’re not so great for added caloric intake. My son likes smoothies for extra calories: whole raw milk, full fat yogurt, peanut butter and frozen bananas. Not the healthiest thing he could eat but better than processed crap.
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RM Reply:
February 15th, 2012 at 11:29 am (Quote)
I think the greens are REALLY important here; especially for closing nutrient gaps. If you want to add calories, you could certainly add any of those items to the smoothie without omitting greens; full fat yogurt, peanut butter, whole raw milk (preferably GOAT’s), Coconut milk… etc.
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RM Reply:
February 15th, 2012 at 11:31 am (Quote)
There are even some recipes that include avocado, which are also great for added calories and still carry quite a nutritional punch; much more so than any dairy product.
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Mama Wrench Reply:
February 15th, 2012 at 11:40 am (Quote)
We do veggie juice for breakfast (carrots, kale, beets, cucumber, spinach and an apple) I prefer juice over smoothies for vegetables for better absorption 
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RM Reply:
February 15th, 2012 at 11:47 am (Quote)
I think juicing can be a great addition to diet as well. However, the green tops of some of the veggies you mention (carrots, beets) have many times over the nutritional value of the root. Plus, when juicing, you miss out on the fiber which is absolutely essential to our well-being. If we’re not clearing our organs of elimination properly, our other organs cannot function properly. On top of that, fiber slows the absorption of sugars, and those root vegetables and apple definitely pack a sugar high without the fiber. A really great book that goes over this in detail with nutrient charts is ‘Green For Life’ by Victoria Boutenko. She thought juicing was enough in and of itself to be healthy and absorb nutrients until she learned more about what fiber actually does for us. Very great read. I also like ‘The Green Smoothies Diet’ by Robyn Openshaw who also provides some great information in more detail than I am able to go into here.
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lilmrsmchenry Reply:
February 15th, 2012 at 7:08 pm (Quote)
I love green smoothies and made them frequently until my juicer broke about a month ago. I even grew my own sprouts and wheat grass for them. Little guy would not touch them with a 10 foot pole though. He would tolerate a carrot/celery/cucumber/aloe/strawberry mix but not a green mix. The only green thing that he will swallow is salad. He is a great fruit eater though, I normally make him fruit and plain homemade yogurt smoothies. I make the yogurt for my 2 youngest with cream-top milk from a local dairy. It helps to fill in the calorie gap.
I wish that raw milk was more widely available here,in order to get it you have to “own” part of the cow.
I kind of wish I could find a recipe for a meal replacement drink because it is pretty much the only processed food item in my house. It kind of provides a buffer on his extra picky days.
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sounds like the dr we had for our oldest. at a year she was 3rd% for weight and in the 90′s for height. dr insisted that we keep a record of everything she ate for a month (and then did nothing with said record), and also insisted that we needed to be giving her snacks. that the kid was nursing every 2 hours throughout the day and a few times at night in addition to her solids didn’t matter. btw, dr had no kids of her own and was far from supportive of breastfeeding anyways.
dd is now 6 and still a very tall but lean and healthy little girl!
thankfully we changed drs because both her brothers were 3rd % in weight at a year too …including our “big” boy who started off at 8lb10oz and is now a 21lb 4oz 15mo.this dr recognizes that we just tend to make tall skinny kiddos and that they are perfectly healthy and are at or well beyond where they should be milestone-wise.
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Melissa Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 1:51 pm (Quote)
Yeah. My boy started out at 9lbs 5 oz. and 22+ inches…a big kid, but *even*, statistically speaking. Then he grew. And grew. Ate like a horse…and used it all to grow up rather than out. He is now 5 and a half, maybe 37 pounds, and wearing a size 7. So, basically, he weighs about as much as the mythical average kid two years younger, and he’s as tall as the average kid two years older. Healthy as can be, active, way ahead on milestones since day 1. He doesn’t even look skinny/scrawny…just slim, though he’s been barely 25th percentile weight and 95th height since six months old.
His ped finally stopped fussing at me when my husband came to one of the appointments. He’s 6ft3in, and a beanpole. Huh, genetics? Who’d a thunk?
The important data is the kid’s own data (history, growth curve, diet, activity, milestones) and secondarily, genetics (mom/dad/family). The darn charts are a way distant third, as far as I’m concerned. Especially with a doc like this who doesn’t understand a *thing* about statistics.
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Amelia Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 2:05 pm (Quote)
This is us! I’m looking at size tags at Old Navy (I know, not official, but bear with me) and I realized my daughter’s weight and height put her two or three sizes apart. So her plot points on the chart are–you got it–kind of wonky. And yet she’s perfectly healthy.
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Shavahn Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 7:31 pm (Quote)
I guess that I am lucky… My daughter is also tall and skinny, but she’s so far off the chart for height that she’s typically at 70th percentile for weight. She’s only around 3% for BMI, but I’ve NEVER had a doctor give me any trouble about her weight.
She’s actually 52″ tall and 46 lbs at 5 1/2 years, so very tall and very skinny.
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Pediasure, yuck! Even if the child was truly too little (and hovering around the 50th percentile is not too little), there are much healthier foods a child can eat to gain weight. Corn syrup… uhm no thanks.
This gem of a doc reminds me of the local Air Force pediatrician, who advises every mother of a child below the 50th percentile to wean and switch to formula. I can’t say how much I despise is medical un-knowledge and how many moms weaned because of that moron (sorry, but he surely is one in regards to his nutritional infant advise). That office also yelled at me for not giving my 12 months old juice every day. I felt fresh organic fruit was much healthier, but the nurses disagreed. One truly wonders where those people get their degrees and who sponsors their 2 hour seminar on nutrition (juice and formula manufacturers?).
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Do we have to quote Pirates of the Caribbean? “They’re really just guidelines”
and how do Dr’s not understand that PediaSure is a BREASTMILK replacement… they never prescribe extended nursing! of course, it does say “contains choline (or another ingredient) which is found in breastmilk” because ITS A BREASTMILK REPLACEMENT.
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Mandie Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 3:25 pm (Quote)
I actually DID have a resident mention that I could start breast feeding again to make sure my child was getting enough nutrients! I totally forgot about that!
But I was young and dumb and didn’t do it….
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jenni Reply:
February 15th, 2012 at 5:55 pm (Quote)
One resident mentioning it is a little different than every Dr prescribing that the first time around ….. plus i know many extended nursing moms getting the 3rd degree from their child’s Dr because they STILL are not far enough up the growth chart, or like my daughters Dr who first told me i had to wean while i was pregnant because it would certainly cause premature labor, and now is telling me that she needs the vitamin D in cow’s milk and thats why she should drink that instead of breastmilk. so i bought her some gummy vitamins that i plan on giving her a couple times a week and telling them to f-off. seriously considering changing Drs at this point, there’s only so much misleading medical advice you can take…
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Wait… With all the hooplah about eating disorders, emotional eating, healthy relationships with food, and obesity, you are seriously telling me to attempt to force my child to consume a liquid filled with artificial colorants, artificial flavors, manufactured nutrients, and high fructose corn syrup? The only way I know of to force a toddler to consume a liquid is to hold them down, pinch their nose, and pour it into their mouth. At that point, they either swallow or drown. Are you advocating that I torture my child because s/he isn’t above normal in weight? You seriously expect me to torture my child until s/he’s heavier than half the kids her/his age?
Wow.
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Jadzia@Toddlerisms had this to say,
Feb 15, 2012 @ 4:05 am (Quote)
Or you could just be like my mother-in-law and feed the “tiny” child six times a day until she fattens up like a pate goose.
(She’s still ridiculously adorable, of course.)
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This is mine, My daughter is now 6 and is a whopping 35.8lbs and 40in tall still under the 5th percentile. Healthy happy little girl just tiny!!
After the Pedi told me that, and would not listen to my concerns about her throwing up the Pedisure and not eating food because I was filling her up with the pedisure, I told him never mind, picked up my kids and walked out of the office in the middle of the exam, I found a new Pedi who ran a couple of test decided that she was just small, and said she will grow at her own pace.
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Kristy Reply:
February 15th, 2012 at 7:11 am (Quote)
I have a tiny 7 yr old (3rd %ile) and *very* tiny 4 yr old (below the charts). My doc was never the least bit worried about the 7 yr old and only sent the 4 yr old for some extra testing as a ‘just in case’.
The only folks to flip out and insist the 4yr old needed Pedisure were the WIC folks… but then my doc didn’t fill out the right form when ‘requesting’ it (since he didn’t think it could hurt) so suddenly it wasn’t so important to get the gunk *now* after all.
It is aaaaall about making things look good in the paperwork for some ‘professionals’. Forget what is best for *this* kid.
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Jen Reply:
February 15th, 2012 at 3:36 pm (Quote)
I have small kids, too. My 8yo is 43lb (.75%ile) and my 5yo is 28lb (.5%ile). Our former ped insisted everything was fine when I was worried, and had a panic attack about it when I wasn’t. He refused to do any testing, just insisted that I add butter and cheese to everything they ate and make them drink half and half. Our current doctor ran several tests and, when nothing came up, concluded that everything is fine. I’m still not sure everything is fine, especially for the 5yo, but the 8yo finally started eating better this past summer and gained 7lb in 10 months.
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jenni Reply:
February 15th, 2012 at 5:59 pm (Quote)
OMG, just turned 3 yr old is 36.5 lbs and 37.5 inches tall….. but she can share a carseat (no adjusting!) with her almost 6 yr old friend…. their Dr ran tests on one cousin when she was 3 and not growing fast and decided it was small genetics… seriously, mom is 5’1″ and dad is 5’5″ … you can’t expect professional basket ball players out of them…
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I am glad we have a great doc when it comes to this. My son was born at 10% for weight and 90% for height and has pretty much stayed there his whole life (now 6.5 years old). Our doc was happy as long as he stayed plus or minus 10% of where he was born so basically 0-20%. He is 6.5 years old and just hit 42 lbs a week ago! My second child was born 40% for weight and 55% for height and the doc says the same thing for her. At 4.5 years old she is 38lbs! Both are happy and healthy and were never force fed Pediasure though WIC would have liked that with my oldest.
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Only 1 of my 5 boys has ever been near 50%, the others are all tiny. My 7.5yr old is 44lbs, 5.5yr old is 36lbs, 3yr old is 32lbs (my 50%-er), and my twins are only around 18lbs at over a year (3%). And all of them are shorter than average. Our pediatricians have always just seen me and DH, being on the small-average side, and said they were fine since they stay around the same growth curve and have always been pretty healthy. The only time I’ve ever needed to supplement (decided by me, not the dr) was when one of my twins was still only 11 lbs at 6 months (born at 7lbs), and hardly gaining.
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So my almost 19 month old is under 5% for weight, under 10% for height… and somewhere between 75-90% for head. (I have a walking talking lollipop.) She has blown away all of her “Milestones” and TBH, I kinda think it’s funny when people (strangers) are blown away when she busts out a 3-4 word sentence. (This tiny person who says “Bess Oooh!” to strangers that sneeze at Target. Cracks me up) But trying to force her to eat anything that isn’t yogurt? Good luck.
My 6 year old was 95%+ in everything until she turned 3, and is still crazy tall for her age.
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Arrrrg! Math major in pain because mr doctor man does not understand the concept of ‘percentiles’! “Not at the average spot on the chart” does not equal “Not at a normal/safe spot” on the chart!!!
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Kasondra Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 5:45 am Kasondra(Quote)
THANK YOU!!! I explained this to a friend with one daughter in the 95th and one in the 5th. If everyone was the 80th IT WOULDN’T BE A FREAKING PERCENTILE. *Someone* has to be 1% and someone has to be 99%.
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Ellen Reply:
February 15th, 2012 at 5:12 pm Ellen(Quote)
You two beat me to it
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