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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You and your DH do eat healthily but you are modeling basically dieting behaviors to your DD. Here is how you start the day for your dd.
Huge breakfast:
several rashers of bacon
3 eggs
bagel with nutella or cream cheese on.
Juice and ensure if possible.
You wake her up early and you make it and she starts by eating more and more, if you need you eat the same. She won't eat all of it the first week, but you do this. 
I hate to say this, but your eating is modeling your DD's eating. Sounds like you and your DH are very healthy food conscious, which would normally be awesome! but not for your DD, not in her case. Go to Texas Road House and you and your DH model eating a whole steak and baked potatoes and bread and a salad. I answered in earnest but your menu posting makes me wonder, if you are serious about your DD's issue or maybe a troll?[/quote]

I'm not the OP, but I have a question about this. I have three thin kids, one of whom is very, very thin, and he would NEVER eat all this. This isn't a normal breakfast. Very thin kid doesn't eat eggs. He'll have bacon or sausage on the weekend, but during the week, both because of time and because of what his body wants, he usually has cereal or a bagel or waffles with peanut butter for breakfast. For OP's child, who is under medical watch, of course a *bigger* breakfast is in order, but this amount of food doesn't seem reasonable for anyone, least of all a tiny girl. What is reasonable, yet also convenient and caloric? [/quote]
Mom of under 1% teen who ended up 5'11" here. I wrote this. No, this is not reasonable and her and your kid won't eat this much. There is a huge difference between failure to thrive and thin kids. We were all thin in the 80s, more or less. This is how I started with DS, he ate what he could and I would beg for just one more bite, slowly, slowly he started to eat more. You have to think of it as medicine, and hope it works. I said, this is how to start, offer it. This is exactly the opposite advice of what you would do for overweight kids. It worked for my DS, if your kids are just thin but not failure to thrive and tall enough, they are probably getting enough calories to grow. Start like this, then pray it works over the course of a month or two for OP.  OP's kid eat like a bird according to her hands off days. I am not happy to recommend this, but it worked for my DS. Heck his estimate height was 5'8" plus minus 2 inches. It is not like I failed, I did what I had to based on advice of awesome ped endo and nutritionst. That is why I keep asking which endo is she seeing if she is here.[/quote]

True, and thanks for your nice response. My kids are definitely not failing to thrive. [/quote]

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