**jennrs**

TeacherTiff

I may be mistaken, but at Neena's one year well-baby weren't you told that you needed to try to get her to gain some weight? If so, what did your doctor suggest?

At Nolan's 9 month the doctor said he had dropped from his curve and she wanted to see him back up by his 12 month. At his 12 month he was a tiny bit lower (13%ile instead of 15%ile) and she said "she needs to see a gain by his next appt" but I didn't even ask "how" to do that. 

He eats constantly, or so it seems. He is pretty picky but he (usually) at least tries new things. He loves healthy foods though- yogurt, fruit, etc. I obviously don't want to hype him up on sugar so what kinds of things did you try successfully?

morrigan08

I don't get it. He is so much more active now then he was at his 6 month visit, and he was an early crawler and walker. So of course he is working off the baby fat. Maybe he is settling into a new curve now that he is a  mover.

I am just saying if he is around the same percentile the next time, maybe this is his new curve since he is an active little boy.

Trying to justify you not worrying  

TeacherTiff

morrigan08:

I don't get it. He is so much more active now then he was at his 6 month visit, and he was an early crawler and walker. So of course he is working off the baby fat. Maybe he is settling into a new curve now that he is a  mover.

I am just saying if he is around the same percentile the next time, maybe this is his new curve since he is an active little boy.

Trying to justify you not worrying  

I agree with you. I'm not "worried" per say, as much as wondering if I'm just not feeding him the kinds of things he needs to grow. And I know that my supply has been dropping in the last few months so he's not getting as much nutrients as he needs from nursing either. So I guess I feel guilty that he's this little skinny thing when he "should" be so much bigger!  

heatherkj

Yeah, I'm not really sure what the concern is, since he's on the charts and all. Nora is in the 5th percentile--but I guess the difference is maybe that she has ALWAYS been in the 5th percentile. I would think that Morrigan is correct, though--his level of activity is so much greater now, it makes sense that he would drop in the percentiles a bit.

But, to fatten him up--I assume he is eating whole milk yogurt? If not, he should be for the extra fat. Does he like cheese? What about bread? If he likes bread, you could do grilled cheese, bread with butter, peanut butter, cream cheese, etc.

Jennrs

Well, yeah, Neena was negative on the charts at her one year appointment (16 lbs 5 oz) and our pedi. wanted to make sure she was able to gain weight so we put her on a high protein high healthy fats diet for a month and she gained about a pound, which put her back on the growth chart. Since then she has been lingering around 5%.

We fed her a lot of avocadoes, cottage cheese, yogurt, edamame, chicken, things cooked in olive oil and butter, venison, smoothies with yogurt, fruit, and whole milk, cheese, etc...

TeacherTiff

N eats all of those things (minus venison). It's not that he's NOT gaining... it's just that she doesn't think he's gaining enough.

Sigh. I just don't know. 

Thanks girls. 

Jennrs

TeacherTiff:

N eats all of those things (minus venison). It's not that he's NOT gaining... it's just that she doesn't think he's gaining enough.

Sigh. I just don't know. 

Thanks girls. 

I'm not a pedi. (obviously) but I honestly think Nolan is fine. Quite honestly, I think the current growth charts are ridiculous (that's a whole other post). Just keep doing what you're doing. He's an active and healthy boy. :-)

JNicMTek

We went through that too. Alex's pedi was concerned about her growth chart curve drop at 12months too. She was in the 95th percentile in weight since birth, then at 12 months she had dropped to 80, at 15 months she dropped again, and again at the next check. She is now somewhere closer to 55-60th on the charts for weight, and her heigh curve is slowly dropping as well. He wanted me to supplement her milk with powdered breakfasts, etc. I'm not very impressed with him to begin with, so I tried it but she hated flavored milks. In the end I just asked here for ideas, but tried to make sure she was eating good foods when she was eating and left it at that. She wasn't underweight by any stretch and she is super active, so eh.

Alex also was an early walker, running by 11months, so I think she was burning off a lot of calories sooner than what the charts are rated for.

TeacherTiff

My gut feeling is that he's probably fine too, but it's still hard when everyone comments on how little he is. I'm already feeling concerned about it, then to hear that from family, friends, perfect strangers... it gets to be a bit much.

Jill, Nolan is the same way. While he's only been walking since 11 months, he has honestly been active for what seems like his whole life. Even holding him as a little baby he was always bouncing on his legs, lol. I think that's probably a lot of it but it's hard not to worry. 

JNicMTek

TeacherTiff:

My gut feeling is that he's probably fine too, but it's still hard when everyone comments on how little he is. I'm already feeling concerned about it, then to hear that from family, friends, perfect strangers... it gets to be a bit much.  

It's hard, but try to ignore people, they are going to make comments no matter what. I get the other side of the comments. Just this week I've heard "she can't be 2, she's huge" (stranger), "She's solid, look at her compared to that other little girl" (step mother), "She's in 3T? My daughter (4 year old) is still wearing that size" (SIL). It's annoying, but you know what your child is doing as far as eating, growing, developing, etc. Try to ignore the comments.

amybyrd

I get them all the time, Elle is on the low side of the percentiles. My doc looks at her trendsand curve and isn't worried. But I get told all the time to feed het more, and that there is no way she is 14 months. People just have stuff to say I guess, I try not to worry.