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[quote=Anonymous]OP, another voice to say hang in there. My DD (now 16 months) was doing the same thing and we went through the same medical rounds -- ped, Sondheimer at Gtown and the feeding clinic at Children's. We did not like Sondheimer at all -- she basically made us feel like it was all our fault -- but she did recommend the switch to Pediasure, which helped to start some weight gain. Our ped got us into Children's and we found the clinic coordinator there -- a nurse practitioner -- to be much more helpful and reassuring. She prescribed Prevacid, which has done nothing, but also made some good suggestions about changing up the schedule to try and help her come to meals hungry. (She was on solids by then, but the majority of the time refused to eat more than a bite or two.) Two things I am hoping it will help you to hear: 1) five months on from our first visit to Children's, things look and feel much better. She is still getting at least half of her calories from pediasure, but both bottles and meals have become far less of a battle. (It helped, I think, when she learned to hold her own bottle, around a year -- an independence thing I guess.) She is around 20th percentile and is eating more like a normal toddler -- some meals are terrible, but some are okay. 2) like you, I was in tears pretty much all the time. I finally decided to try an antidepressant, and it has been incredibly helpful. I think perhaps it was delayed postpartum depression, which had been lurking in the background until the feeding issues sent me over the edge. Whatever the science, the drug (I have Wellbutrin) has helped me feel like myself again and not a weepy mess obsessing over DD's eating and weight. Anyway, you are not alone. And it will get better. [/quote]
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