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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks PPs. Most days we have meat for dinner. She likes steak, chicken and pork. She eats eggs. Won’t eat fish. Last night we had fish and she chose her protein - cheese cubes. That happens once or twice a week. The hands off days won’t happen anymore. Those were at the advice of the dietician and psychologist and as you can see, did not work for us. It’s no wonder she didn’t make much progress last check up. She did grow, but not at a catch up rate. She clearly needs more intervention. This is why I think we haven’t exhausted our efforts at home. I appreciate all the recipe ideas.

I’m not discounting the feeding tube, but want to try what we know we need to do first. Examining the hands on days and hands off days was eye opening.[/quote]
I asked if your nutritionist is focusing on trying to do this the healthy way? If she is, you need a new nutritionist. Not advice often given, but I had to forget everything I did right and shut my eyes and feed my kid donuts and pizza and Five Guys. It worked and even that wasn't easy. No preteen wants mom nagging to eat hamburgers! Once my DS was gaining and growing a lot, we started going back to healthy options, which he loved. He was sick of fast and fatty and bready foods. I am not kidding, he gained 15 lbs which was a miracle(at 15...) and he grew 5 inches in 6 months. That is how much food matters for height. Imagine how hard it is for some people to lose weight? It was harder and I was told by the good nutritionist that for people like my DS it is harder to gain weight than for very heavy kids to lose weight. While feeding DS this, I gained weight, for the first time apart from pregnancy. It was worth it.[/quote]

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