Any other mothers deal beside the "dud to thrive" sign?

My daughter is 21 months old, and she's other been smaller than the growth charts want her to be. Yesterday we took her for a shipment check and now she's so far rotten the chart that my doctor wants to distribute her to a specialist. She is healthy looking, not undernourished, very busy, and she eats resembling a normal toddler. Also, developmentally she's model in every road except for her weight gain. So she's specifically not autistic or anything like that. My mother have celiac disease, so I wonder if that could be what's going on. Anyway, I'm kind of freaking out, and starting to quality like I've slipshod as a mother. Anyone got some wisdom/advice/suggestions for me?

Answers:    I'm not a mother, but my daughter have that label as okay. She was a premie and even at 7 years behind the times, she's a little bringing up the rear. If there be one piece of advice that I yearning someone told me, it would be to try to pin the doctors down to a diagnosis. They will want to run tons and tons of tests on her, in need ever reaching a diagnosis. Some of the tests are unproblematic, some are pretty nasty. The stand up against is to know when to push back on the doctors, and when to hold them go forward beside the testing. If the doctor desires to do a test, ask them if the question paper will reach a diagnosis. Also, listen to your gut when it comes to running too few or too various tests. You're the parent and doctors are not infallible.
If you suspect celiac disease, you should acquire a test for it, as all right as other genetic anomalies. They can run various test on a single blood sample.
More importantly, you are not a one-time Mom. It's common for Moms to grain that way surrounded by this situation. You're in a tough position. You want to do everything you can for your child, but this must be temper by the pragmatism on the medical front. Believe me, there are parents close to you out there struggling near a similar situation.
I am fortunate in that I have a big nine pounder though weight learned she was alway pretty petite. But I own a very apt friend at church and for the first three years of her daughter's life they go though countless tests. Krystal be a tiny, tiny baby. Like your daughter she be perfect within every other way but so tiny. At three she not quite looked like a 12 month behind the times. They never really found a diagnoses. Today she is 15 years old, unquestionably beautiful, smart and a artistic soccer player. She is however, still very, petite. The smallest on her troop. The smallest in her Sunday college class. But... dynomite comes in small packages.

Keep giving her tons of love and affection and gentle for her. I wouldn't worry unless she clearly become distressed health prudent.
I didn't run into this, but my best friend did. Her son was diagnosed downfall to thrive very precipitate on. I'll admit he be a very highly skinny looking baby. The doctors submitted him to a million test... blood tests, urine test, etc... occasionally something would come back wacky, they'd go back over the test, afterwards it would be fine. Anyways, he's now four and without blemish healthy and regular. He's definitely still on the diaphanous side, but all throughout this he met every milestone, be very glowing, etc. Just was impressively thin kid I guess!

trust your instinct... it wouldn't hurt to see a specialist, but as long as your daughter is interview her milestones, eating healthily, and growing and thriving - which it sounds similar to she is to me - then I wouldn't measure yourself up. I don't understand what they remains these growth charts off anyways. I know my daughter dropped from the 80th percentile for weightiness down to 10th percentile between ages 2-3 years..... but she eats resembling a horse and is very hearty!

I wish you the best of luck!!

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