Trying to Gain: Tween
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Underweight
Asked by C.C. from Dallas
on May 30, 2007
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So here's my dilemma. I need help with my 11 month old's nutrition because he's underweight and he's allergic to milk. I know soy milk doesn't have all the fat babie...
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- i give my son next step soy formula. similac makes it and lipil does as well. he loves it and it has all it needs.
- There's a great book called "Super Baby Food" that has lots of great ideas for how to pack a lot of nutrition into small amounts of food. For good fats, try mixing in...
- Hi C., Has Ty dropped centiles on the growth chart? The reason I ask is because it is very normal for babies to be under the 5th percentile. In pediatrics, we sus...
Worried About My Son's Weight Gain
Asked by S.K. from Minneapolis
on May 12, 2011
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My son will be 13 months old next week and weighs almost 19 pounds and is 31 inches long. He is only 5th percentile for weight. My worry is that he hasn't put on much ...
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- All 3 of my kiddos stopped gaining as much weight as they started becoming more and more active. As long as he's not losing weight he should be fine. As you have tal...
- I had a similar issue with my first son, except he was always super chubby (95th percentile for weight until 9 months old). Once he reached 9 months and to 18 months ...
- My daughter was in the 5-10% until she was 5-6 yrs old. I'm sure it's fine. My doc always told me as long as she said within her normal area on the chart and didn't ...
How to Lose Weight While Helping Her Gain?
Asked by S.E. from Philadelphia
on January 27, 2012
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Ok Moms heres is the problem. I have an underweight tween. We've seen the doctor as she has been under weight her whole life, she's just tiny and skinny. Which I o...
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- The key is keeping things separate in your mind. I have an eight-year-old who hates to eat. It's a battle to get him to eat at all and that's even with high-fat foods ...
- The good news is that if you also eat 6 times a day, it'll HELP you lose weight. :) That's the #1 trick to boosting metabolism. You just have to make sure that you're...
- If you find your metabolism, will you see if it eloped with mine? Mine has been gone for years and no matter how many milk cartons I advertise on, I haven't seemed to...
Weight Gain
Asked by S.M. from San Francisco
on January 3, 2008
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I have a 14 year old son. He's on asthma meds. He has difficulty gaining weight. He's 5'3 and only weighs 87 pounds. He eats constantly but still gains like a pound a ...
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- depending on what medications he is on, this may be affecting his ability to gain weight. Steroids, in particular, can affect the body differently and can CERTAINLY c...
- Hi S., I'm sorry- I don't know much about asthma, but I would agree to look into the Singulair. I certainly respect that you don't want him on more meds (antidepres...
- Hi S., Take a look at "The Makers Diet" by Jordan Rubin. In it he tells his story about bringing himself back from deaths door by changing his diet. He couldn't gain...
Toddler Weight Gain Question
Asked by A.M. from Lakeland
on December 26, 2010
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Hi Everyone! I have a question about how much weight a toddler should gain from age 2 to 3. The last time my toddler was weighed was at his 2 year old well checkup a...
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- I agree with Molly. You also need to consider the fact that the scales your mother in law used are different than the scales he was weighed on in the doctor's office....
- You can ask at the next check up but my son did not gain more than a few pounds at that age. Kids grow very fast as babies, slow down between 12 months and 24 and the...
- My daughter is always considered skinny, but so was I. She's healthy, hardly ever sick, cold once a year and that's it. She has lots of energy, eats and sleeps well ...
Seeking Advice About Weight Gain Problem
Asked by A.L. from Spokane
on November 20, 2008
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Hi moms, my daughter is 9.5 months old. She has a very poor weight gain since 4 months. She would gain only 1.5 ounces every week. She was 6.8 lbs at birth and is 14.4...
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- I feel your pain. My daughter was actualy turned in to CPS by our childcare provider because they didn't think we were feeding her enough because she was so small. She...
- As long as you are getting all the nutrients that you need, then she will be getting them from you. Both my boys were small. I came to the conclusion that a 2T was...
- There is a really good book called Super Baby Food which has all sorts of good stuff. I have raised 3 children with info from this book, and although we eat eggs now,...
Baby Weight Gain and Something Else...
Asked by K.C. from Dallas
on August 19, 2010
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Okay...please forgive my ignorance...I'm a first time mom and I'd ask my sister, but she likes to exagerate everything and scare me. My two questions are:
1) My son i...
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- If you are exclusively breastfeeding, any bleeding in the first 48 (or 50? or 56?) days postpartum is considered lochia and not menstruation. Even if you stopped ble...
- My kiddo gained weight like that too, but the reason she couldn't be satisfied is because she had reflux, and the eating soothed her esophagus, so keep an eye out for ...
- My son did that, so what i did was give him rice cereal and he kept it down, his body was trying to tell me he needed something with more substance. I .know many of yo...
Weight Gain in My 9yoG
Asked by J.S. from San Antonio
on February 5, 2011
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My husband and I have noticed that my 9 y.o. daughter has been gaining weight lately. She is also starting to look really flabby. We don't say anything to her about it...
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- I agree with Julia and Mallory's post re: food intake. My two cents... My 12daughter is a couch potato but we just got her the game Just Dance and Just Dance 2 for ...
- I would just like to add that I remember being that age and I was always hungry! I was also a very active kid, though, always riding bikes, playing outside, going on w...
- Just a suggestion, in our house we have a 30 minute rule (wait 30 minutes before taking seconds) Often times it takes that much time for the signal that you are full ...
Excess Weight Gain in Children
Asked by D.B. from Wichita
on March 22, 2010
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Ok. I know this is going to spark a real debate and I'm ready for all feedback, positive or otherwise. My sister and I disagree on this subject. My 10 year old daug...
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- So, I agree with both, I wouldn't tell your daughter shes fat/chubby, etc unless it's really bad, because you risk sending her the other way and neither is okay. What...
- I honestly believe that it's not so much what you eat, but how much kids get out and play. We had quite a bit of junk food in our house and none of us kids (there were...
- I was an over weight child who would not of been if my mother had not put me on diets and constantly told me how fat I was. I know this because when my now 17 year old...
Small 3-Year Old Needs to Gain Weight
Asked by G.Z. from Charleston
on July 6, 2010
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Please help! Our 3-year old boy hasn't gained any weight in the last year since his 2-year checkup. He still weighs 24 pounds. He's always been small and low on the ch...
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- Hi G., I'm sorry you are having to go through this worry...I went through all of those same tests, including a "bone growth" test when my oldest son was four. (He, b...
- Perhaps you could seek help from a nutritionist. I have a friend who is an occupational therapist who specializes in eating issues. Perhaps he doesn't like the texture...
- I'd only be worried if he wasn't growing in height either. I would do as the other mammas have suggested and ask for some simple allergy tests but past that, let him ...
