I am posting here in the hope that someone will have some advice/experience that they can give me, as I seem to have exhausted all profesional/Google avenues! My DS was born 2 weeks early at 6lbs 15oz and has never really fed well. We had to go back into hospital a week after birth as he dropped 15% of his body weight, then everything went well (I was breastfeeding) then he developed severe sebhoerric (?) dermatitis at about 2 months old when his weight basically stalled. Since then, it has been a constant struggle to get him to gain weight. He is now on Infatrini and weaning with perfect skin but is only 10lbs 6oz - completely off the centiles. We have had all the tests done - thyroid, liver, allergies - and are now waiting for a sweat test and various choromosomal tests. Things are made much worse by the fact that he seems to have no appetite. We have to really force feeds down him sometimes, with him crying and fighting it - but then other times he will take 120ml in 15 minutes. Does anyone have any experience with similar difficult children? Or advice? It's beginning to affect our family life - we have DD (perfectly healthy, BF till 1) age 3 and can't do days out etc as the feeding takes precedent above everything. HELP!!!
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My very low weight, no appetite, seemingly normal son!
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girlfromwales · 09/04/2010 18:46
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