Well, this was something I really didn't see coming. Wren is having trouble gaining weight. When he was just released from hospital I was so proud of his ability to gain weight. He went to the 90th percentile and stayed there till 6 months. By nine months he had fallen back to 75th. He was 48th percentile at 12 months which I put down to lots of recent physical activity and made an effort to feed him more.
He does not want to eat! He just likes nursing in little snacks a few times a day and during the night. I took him to the doctor for a check on his chest since he has had a cold for 2 weeks and was up all last night coughing. The doctor was concerned that he has gained only 3oz in a month. He is now 35th percentile.
He has to go back in a month for another weight check and the pediatrician recommended that we tell cardiology if it continues as this can be an indication of his heart having problems.
Great.
My sense is that the relative weight decline negatively correlates with his increased walking. He walks around the block, climbs and chases cats all day. Still, I have to admit that he has very little appetite for solid foods. Today, he ate the following:
A few bites of dry cereal
Banana
3/4 tub of baby yoghurt
5 raspberries
1/2 cracker
5 spoons of cream & delicata squash puree
Nursed 4 times
I have no idea how to encourage him to eat more. I lay a lot of little bites of good food on his tray and he throws off everything except broccoli and raspberries... oh, and cookies.
Tomorrow I am going to make a rich cream/egg yolk custard and offer that with steamed apple. But why won't he eat if he is not getting the calories he needs? Or is he getting what he thinks he needs nursing but just not building up an appetite. This is what our other ped insinuated... that I should offer butter and creamy foods instead of breastmilk.
Josh is not concerned.
1 comment:
Izzy goes through cycles one day she will eat and then for aa week it seams that she won't eat anything but a scrap of food. it is frustrating isn't it! Will wren eat raw pealed apples? I give izzy juice all day but use the veggie friut ones adn watered down apple juice or dark grape juice and I think if she did not drink that she would fall of the charts! Today she ate a small
2 tablespoons? amount of yogert
2 blueberries
bird seed bite of grilled cheese
two tablesspoons of tomatoe soup
and a couple black beans and couple goldfish crackers she weights 23.8 lbs now (down from 24.5 she was 24.6 for the last five mths thoght with out gaining any and no one ws worried, they say tolddlers do this, but she is older than Wren. She was on steriods when she was his age and was puffy from the drugs, but I think about 20lbs at 12 mths. she will however eat ranch dressing and any suace even hot sauce but will only lick it of the food so it is a waste to offer it to her because then she won't even eat a bit! She lived off corn on the cobb yesterday! Monday she refused food until dinner adn than ate a huge amount of spinage pasta and red sauce and some salmon!! I almost fell over, now though she is nto eating gain! and running wild! did you call adn talk with the cardioligy nurses? if you are concerned or if the doctor raised some concern then maybe calling and discussing it with the nurses will help ease worries and help you decide if you want or need to wrorry ? ok wrote you a book sorry!
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