
Don't go crazy on the solids -- your milk has a higher calorie content per oz than almost anything you could feed him. Avocado is great. |
Yes, this! But for the solids that you ARE doing: my pediatrician told us to use butter on everything - put it into purees, even. (Unsalted, of course). She also suggested olive oil. Turns out, though, that my son did not like his food loaded up with fat and actually ate more of it when it was "naked." We did the percentile worry thing as well, and actually fell off the charts for a while, but we knew our son was okay. If your DS was really sick (pneumonia) and dropped weight because of it, your doctor will take that into account. |
Maybe I am not understanding correctly... your 3 year old has an eating disorder? Did you mean to word it differently? Is it even possible for children who are so young to have eating disorders? |
Eating disorders aren't necessarily psychological. Anorexia for instance is not. Anorexia nervosa is. Anyway, sorry I can't help here-- my DD is a chubster but I think it's mainly because she demands tons and tons of breastmilk and eats very few solids, most of which probably have lower calorie density than formula or bm. |
I truly don't understand--if baby is growing in all other ways and is eating well, thriving in fact, what does it matter what percentile he is in, even if he is dropping a bit?
If the cause of weight loss has been identified (sickness), and he is just not gaining a lot, but is doing well in other ways, why do we want to fatten up our babies? I think healthy fats like avocado and olive oil are good for brain and development, but I see no need to drench our babies' food in butter and cream and cheese (eating disorders aside), just to out pounds on the baby. You run the risk of developing another problem you have to undo later--getting your child used to high fat, not so healthy foods. Fat rolls are not an indicator of good health in a young child (nor are they an indicator of bad health). Growing well, being developmentally on target, and being over all well-nourished ARE. |
http://wholesomebabyfood.com/
This site has great ideas....as a PP said, butter helps the body to absorb some of the vitamins in veggies/fruit. Whole milk greek yogurt, again as another PP mentioned, is also quite good for the lil ones. |
I agree with you on everything, except what is bolded. Seriously? Are you a mom? Why do a few posters feel the burning desire to belittle the OPs concern for her child? We ALL have things that worry us about our kids, some warranted, some just unecessary anxiety. However, the OP is asking for suggestions to add fat into her baby's diet, she is not asking you to invalidate her worries as a mom. I'm sure you have had some concerns about your children that other posters would think you are wrong about, yours just is not around food, or maybe you are just perfectly rational about everything-if so great for you and the few other perfet moms posting here. |
My child has Infantile Anorexia. We are first time parents. We knew something was wrong at about 11 months, but our doctor just told us to fatten him up. She recommended a nutritionist who was absolutely worthless when or child was refusing food. I could smell acetone on his breath, we took him in to see if he was diabetic. Finally we got our doctor's associate who was familiar with the symptoms for in Infantile Anorexia and got us an appt. with a gastroenterologist to rule out a physical reason for food refusal. That is the entrance to the multidisiplinary feeding team at Children's hospital. Finally at around 14-15 months we got the diagnosis and some help with this disorder. It is a regulation disorder. It turns out the acetone smell on his breath is the smell of ketones which are excreted from the body when you are starving. He kept failing a urine test he was given which said he was starving, but could also mean he has a metabolic disorder (of which there are 1000's). Metabolic specialist confirmed that no metabolic disorder. A mom just set up a yahoo group to help our children: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Infantil...orum-OneBiteAtATime/ Dr. Chatoor at Children's hospital first described this disorder about 20 years ago. They used to be children who were listed as Failure to Thrive, unknown origin. Now she was able to find that some of them had the same symptoms in common. Dr. Chatoor is a child psychiatrist. These children are treated by child psychiatrist. |
To the PP questioning you (and questioning parents who are worried about food) what they do not realize is that babies used to die, now we thankfully have infomation, research, doctors, and treatment. I concern about your child's eating is not unwarranted. |
Mom with child with Infantile Anorexia here again. Sorry for all the typos in other posts.
Other things to feed child included: full fat cottage cheese with pancake syrup in it. That is the way my child likes it, that is OK with me. cheerios with a little bit of cream cheese spread on the top or cheerios with a little bit of butter on it. You can add vegetable oil to baby food (along with rice cereal to maintain texture). But that didn't work for our child. Made him have diarrhea. The heavy cream worked the best. (There is light cream and heavy cream at the stores, look for the highest calorie cream.) During the baby food days, cream was like a drone in our child's diet. There was cream in everything he ate. We also discovered he liked food that had more flavor that the boring stuff that came out of baby jars. So in the pureed meat, we put in the cream, rice cereal combo plus salt and (this is real) curry powder. I would search the baby food jars to see which ones looked like they had more flavor. Gerber had very few kinds with flavor, Beech-nut, which was hard to find in our area had more jars of baby food which actually had flavor. I reported that we knew something was wrong with our child at 11 months, but really it was much earlier. He would take a bottle and just suck down an ounce or two, just enough to take the edge off. He never actually filled his tummy up. He would be too busy to eat, wanting to play. He didn't want to sleep at night because he also wanted to play. That is what these children are like. No internal regulation, so the regulation needs to be external until the child can learn for themselves. Our child dropped from 50% on weight scale to 0 percent. He was 50% to begin with because he was force fed in the orphanage he was in until 7 months. From then on he didn't gain any weight for about 6 months. He just kept growing taller and taller and skinnier and skinnier, still always happy and full of energy. He also had a problem with strength of sucking. We put in cereal into milk plus bigger opening to help him develop strength in his suck. This was at the suggestion of the speech therapist. What he did was just not suck his bottle, because it was too much trouble. So we had to go back to plain formula (no cereal) since he wouldn't eat if it was that much trouble. I'm OK with the orphanage force feeding my child, now that I understand the problems. He would have otherwise died at the orphanage. That is how serious this eating disorder is. |
If your ped isn't worried, you should try not to worry so much. DD was 16.5 lbs at 1 year, and 3 (as of next month), I'd be surprised if she's 26 lbs. Some kids are just lightweight. |
DS is 12 pounds at 8 months. He was born tiny and is well on his way to triple his weight by one year. He is incredibly active--not quite crawling yet, but rolling and scooting and kicking--nonstop. I basically feed him around the clock. But he is still tiny and people always comment on his size. So, I can understand OP's concern...
That said, I do think there's an overemphasis on fat babies...thinner babies are actually healthier--at least from what I've read in some places. Fattening up too fast can lead to heart diseases later on. I think as long as our babies are growing and gaining on their own curve, they are in good shape. |
My DD was off the charts underweight at her 1 yr check up. Her ped wasn't overly concerned but suggested adding butter to all her food. She also LOVED buttery mashed potatoes with salmon mashed into it. |
Seriously? I wAs not belittling, just suggesting she may not need to be as concerned as she seems.
I am in fact a mom with a child who dropped from 20th to 5th percentile in his first year. It was posts similar to mine that reinforced for me that I needn't worry. Perhaps though I am less sensitive And prone to take offense when people use reason.
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What's the obsession with numbers? I just don't get it.
If the child is healthy why worry about a number on a chart that assumes that every child is the same? |