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12 month old - no weight gain for over 2 months...any ideas??

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Calico1 · 02/03/2010 09:35

Would be grateful for any thoughts / experience of this.

DD has just turned one and has always been quite tiny (9th centile). Her appetite has been good though and she'll pretty much eat anything she's given. She does look really thin though so I took her to the clinic yesterday for a weigh-in and was shocked to find that her weight was exactly the same as the last weight-in over two months ago.....so she has now dropped to the 0.4 centile line. She seems well and active as usual so not sure how worried I should be? HV has asked for her to return in a month for another weigh-in. I can't force feed her so not sure how to cram those calories in. Her height is 50th centile so she looks rather underfed and her tights are baggy on her little legs - bless her!

Anyone else experienced this?

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maxybrown · 02/03/2010 10:09

Hi my son was the same. I have just looked at his book (he is now coming up to 2 and a half and on the 9th percentile now)

but at your daughters age he was the same weight for about 10 months afterwards, but he grew and never stopped running (he walked at 10 months) but they were never worried about him.

Sometimes they put too much emphasis on things like this as I'm sure others will tell you. My son hardly eats at all now but seems fine, bright and breezy and lots of energy etc.

You will know your own child and unless she starts losing weight I wouldn't worry

maxybrown · 02/03/2010 10:10

Oh and my niece now at 14 is like a stick, but eats loads!!!

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Calico1 · 02/03/2010 10:51

Thanks for that MaxyB

I have tried not to be a worrier. I have always been told by HVs that as long as they stay on the same centile line then it isn't a worry whether it is the 9th or 91st but I have to admit to a little panic yesterday when she had dropped two centile bands. You are right though, probably too much emphasis on 'charts' these days.....

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maxybrown · 02/03/2010 10:57

Mine has dropped centiles all through his life so far, mainly from growing, not putting weight on etc . he has never lost weight though. He even got up to the 25th once!!! then eneded up nearly on 2nd.......just because of his age/height weight! you'd never know it to look at him though

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Calico1 · 02/03/2010 11:10

I guess as long as they are full of energy it is ok. I am getting fed up of people saying - oh isn't she tiny. One person recently asked me if I was sure she was 12 months old......er, yes!

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BooKangerooWonders · 02/03/2010 11:11

is she moving more than before? Toddling/ cruising/ walking? Buring off more calories than she's taking in?

I don't think you should be worried, but how about concentrating on foods which are quite dense - give her avocados, eggs, cheese, but stay off bread, rice cakes etc which are just air but might blunt her appetite.

maxybrown · 02/03/2010 11:16

I used to get told oh he's so tiny!! not now, everyone thinks he is much older, but he is still only on the 9th. But he holds himself well and is very confident.

Forget them, she is a dinky petite little girl, lovely! Are you small?

Ds weighed 6 8 born but all my family is tiny.

mememe30 · 02/03/2010 11:24

Hi, my son fell off the bottom of the charts between the ages of 10 months and 3 years. He is now 6 just on the bottom of the charts but its very well if anything too much veg but I can't help what he likes!!!! Try not to worry. My son is very happy always running around, doing very well at school and is just small. I used to worry a lot but now know thats just him. My main problem is that everyone feels they can make comment about how small he is (often to him too) which really annoys me as it usually comes from parents with overweight children. I would never say to someone'Gosh isn't your child huge'

TulipsInTheRain · 02/03/2010 11:28

Please don't panic but i had a similar situation with dd, except i let it go on for far too long before realising what the problem was.

dd was almost 10kgs at 10 months old, so a good sized baby. At 22 months she was still 10kgs and looked like a famine victim.

It wasn't until 22 months that i realised that she was wheat intolerant... within 2 months of cutting wheat out of her diet she had gained over 2kgs.... the consultant paediatrician and dieticians she saw believe that wheat damages her gut in such a way that she can no longer absorb food normally

Like i said, dd's situation is one of the worse case scenarios, and there were other signs such as constant loose stools and her mood but i'll never forgive myself for dismissing her weight issues for so long when the solution was so simple

maxybrown · 02/03/2010 11:32

Tulips, very interesting. I have wondered over Ds for some time now

He nearly always has loose stools too, thought I would get laughed at. But if he has cereals and bread then his bttom explodes

I have inflammatory bowel disease so does concern me anyway.

DS is 12kg and will be 2 and a half in 2 weeks.

maxybrown · 02/03/2010 11:33

he has never looked undernourished though i might add, but hardly eats anything

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Calico1 · 02/03/2010 11:43

That's interesting about the wheat, Tulips. She has problems with constipation though rather than the exploding bottom! Will ask HV about diet at next check up anyway. Going to stock up on avocados and cheese this morning.

I am small and her 2yr old brother is also only on the 9th centile so perhaps it is her destiny to be tiny. She doesn't look so bad in the winter as she is bundled up in lots of layers but come the summer she'll have to get her skinny little arms and legs out!

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maxybrown · 02/03/2010 12:17

At least she eats calico. I could never say that about DS but he still put on weight all be it slowly

dinkystinky · 02/03/2010 12:39

Calico - baby's weight gain tails off around 1 anyway - so it may just be that your DD is getting in early with her weight plateauing. Is she happy, healthy and active? She's always been petite and it sounds like you and her brother are petite, so hopefully its nothing sinister.

Is she still having lots of milk? Definitely go for the calorific choices where possible - hot cross buns with butter are a big hit with my DS2 when I feel like he hasnt been eating much of late. He sadly rejects avocado out of hand. Cheese sauces with pasta are good and full fat philadelphia on blinis great way to get more calories in too.

I agree with Tulips though - if she has digestion problems, get her checked out for intolerances if possible (go speak to your GP about it rather than HV if you're really worried)

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Calico1 · 02/03/2010 15:45

Hmm - she's never been too keen on milk and only drinks a few ounces a day at the moment.

Philadelphia blinis sound good though Dinky, I'll give that a try. Will check out the possible food allergy route too if increased calorie intake doesn't work out!

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radstar · 08/03/2010 15:07

tulipsintherain Can I ask you how the doctors discovered your child's wheat intolerance? I have wondered about ds for a while but don't really know how to go about addressing it as obviously many things could cause allergies. I was thinking about stopping wheat products for a few days but don't know whether I should or not.

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