Hi everyone, I'm new to this. My son (ds) is 18 months. He suffers from severe reflux since birth.
Ds was kept in hospital for a week "under observation" to watch his food intake. He was having less than 500 cals a day and needs 900 at his age.
He is less than 20lbs and has been this weight since October.They only change they've made is to his milk. It's a high calorie milk 300 in 7oz. Pain to give him. Have to water it down but it's stopping him from losing weight when he doesn't eat. He has round about 1/2-3/4 meal a day. When we came back from hospital it was like he missed food and ate well but now it's going down again.the other day He ate a bit of coco pops in the morning, few strands of plain boiled spaghetti and a few bites of chicken. For tea the kids had mc Donalds but he just chucked most of it on the floor. He ate lil bits of kfc chicken last week so I went out and tried him with that. He would bite it and spit it out. I'm trying to giving him dinner in the morning as he tolerates food better then and breakfast at dinner. Few bites of toast in morning. Few bites of home made pizza, refused chicken and mash and few bites of bread.
Been such a pain to feed. Today he's been in a lot of pain.
If he did this once a week i wouldn't be too bothered but it's once a week he eats over a meal in the day. It's a long term problem that I can't see the end off. Before he was getting worse I wanted a few more kids but now no way. Not until he's 'better' and I'm just so scared that the next will be like him. The stress of your child constantly not eating, losing intrest in food is horrific. He knows it hurts to eat so he's happy hungry. He has loads of energy so what he eats he burns off quick.
Advice/support? Some one who understands?