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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Were either you or your husband short and skinny as kids or were you both always tall and very thin? If you were short, skinny kids who ended up being tall adults I wouldn't worry as much. But if you were both always tall there is something seriously wrong. Have you really ruled out all medical conditions? I would visit specialists like gastroenterologist, endrocrinologists for another opinion. [/quote]

DH and I were both tall and painfully thin as kids. I remember getting letters home from the school nurse - my grandmother accused my mother of starving all her kids. This is different. Late puberty runs on DH’s side, and that’s one possible explanation but doesn’t tell the whole story. DD has been tested by endocrinologists who ran every kind of blood test, a radiologist who measured her growth plates, and a top gastroenterologist who performed an endoscopy and biopsy. All conclude there is no underlying illness.[/quote]

New poster here.

OP, do all the doctors know that both you and DH were "painfully thin" as children? Do they really take that on board when looking at your child?

I know you say "this is different" but OP, your situation sounds a lot like our goddaughter's. Tiny, couldn't gain weight--doctors, more doctors, dietitians and programs etc. Yet a healthy kid. And it took two years of stress and tests before yet another new doctor actually LOOKED at the two parents and said, "You're both quite a bit smaller than average and dad is especially lower in weight than average--this is genetics, not a disorder." The dad can eat and eat and doesn't gain weight. The parents were small kids, especially dad.

But until this one doctor asked things like, what are your eating habits and what were you built like as kids--no one ever connected the parents' childhood body types with the child's size and lack of weight gain. You'd think going so would be obvious but our friends found that it wasn't. Has any doctor truly delved into your and your spouse's childhood eating, weight gain and size? [/quote]

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