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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I am really glad to hear this news!

The recommendation to feed your child three meals and three snacks a day, increasing the calories and keeping an eye on her caloric needs considering her exercise and other activities, sounds like a really good one.  (Incidentally, it would also be the recommended treatment if your child were to turn out to have anorexia so you are covering all bases here with this approach!  However if the child had anorexia usually she would resist the extra meals to some extent.)

The initial advice you got from your child's psychologist to just back off on the food pushing, presumably allowing your child to just eat whatever she wanted and how much she wanted, didn't sound like good advice to me.  It sounds like you are able to give gentle encouragement and reminders, but your child is willing to eat and wants to eat, and hopefully is putting on some weight!

I think this new pediatrician is a good one and seems to have more of a sense of what treatment is needed than your old experts did.  I wish you the best![/quote]

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