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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. Thanks so much pp.

It sounds like this could be where my ds is headed. He is easily distracted (but common in 6 month olds!). He is a bad nurser - bad latch and slow transfer. We use a slow nipple in the bottle so he doesn't chug and gulp then choke.

When I put food on the tray he just plays with it. Doesn't brig his hands to his mouth. The closest I get to self feeding is those pouches and when he notices it has flavor he takes it out of his mouth. Spoon feeding involves making him laugh enough to open his mouth to get food in.

Sound familiar?

We will have our 9 month check up and see then if we need the referral - did you read anything about it that you would recommend?[/quote]

I am PP, put a link to a book by Dr. Chatoor, that I recommend. It is in a previous link.  That book or the other book were not published when my child was in the middle of this.  I still think 7 months is pretty young to go to the feeding clinic.  We noticed my son would rather do anything else but eat.  He is not the worst case by far, but if has been very stressful.  It was NOT our pediatrician who saw the problem. We went to the pediatrician's office (probably for problems with eating) but our pediatrician was not there and we saw one of the other partners who was familiar with Dr. Chatoor and infantile anorexia and thought we needed to be seen in the feeding clinic ASAP.  The ped. office helped us get an expedited appointment first in gastroenterology and then the feeding clinic.

Our pediatrician, first sent us to a nutritionist.  And she didn't have a good one to recommend.  I ended up with someone who thought my child needed more "POUND CAKE" and to take high calorie nutritional supplements to gain weight that cause as a side effect diarrhea.

Our pediatrician first gave us a week to get some weight on him, and I did get some weight on him after a week, but the following week, he could not sustain it.  I also recommend getting that scale so you have better records if you need it.  I sold my on craigslist afterward, so you end up making back half your money. [/quote]

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