Food at nursery

[kittykat7210]

Hello,

So my husband has crohns so needs to eat a lot of food to maintain his weight, we think our daughter might have a similar issue but doctors won’t look at her because it’s not seriously affecting her BUT she needs to eat an awful lot to just maintain her weight, she eats constantly all day, we mix between healthy and high calorie foods and she’s gained a grand total of 6 lbs in 2 years with us desperately trying to up her weight (mostly achieved with full fat everything, limiting fruit and veg consumption until higher calorie foods have been eaten, adding cream to her milk to drink etc) So my worry is that they won’t let her eat very much/high calorie foods at nursery, she’s there 2 days a week, if I try and explain will they listen or will they not pay attention because she doesn’t have an official diagnosis? If they won’t listen what can I do to help her? We’ve only just managed to get her gaining again as she went a full year basically not gaining a thing! The nursery has policies on food (only 1 savoury snack a day, no chocolate or biscuits etc) which I do understand if for healthy eating purposes but I’m truly terrified she’ll stop gaining/start losing with these restrictions, especially if they don’t allow us to pack more than usual food/ if they won’t let her eat it!

Anyone have any experience with anything similar?

Thanks in advance!

When I worked in nurseries (until a year ago) if we had a letter from a Dr or dietician we would definitely give the foods that were needed and we would happily work with you to keep your child healthy.

@TheChippendenSpook

When I worked in nurseries (until a year ago) if we had a letter from a Dr or dietician we would definitely give the foods that were needed and we would happily work with you to keep your child healthy.

Problem is we won’t get a doctors note due to the fact she’s not been diagnosed with anything yet, we’ve mostly dealt with this ourselves after being told that children fluctuate blah blah blah but she’s gone from over 60th percentile at 9 months old to 12th percentile at 3 years, again this is with us monitoring her weight and stuffing her full of calories! With this covid situation doctors aren’t even allowing us to make an appointment as it’s not a medical emergency 😔

You would definitely need a doctors letter for this.

Discuss with the manager. There will definitely be room for some leeway on this but do explain the full situation.

Otherwise, two days a week isn't an enormous amount. Do they provide all meals and snacks?

In the nursery I work in, we follow exactly what the parents want, you don’t need a doctors note. All diet information gets put on an official form