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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you get these nasty responses because people are just simply jealous that you have a tall and thin child. They are themselves fat or have weight issues and cannot stand the fact that someone has good genetics or that you have self control and do not feed your child junk food. I am not American and can tell you that your daughter is not considered underweight in my country. Good luck and be prepared for a lot of jealous people along the way who would tell you to “ fatten your child up”. [/quote]

I'm 5'9" and 120 lbs on a heavy day. My kids are 99th for height and 50th for weight. I was one of the responders you're talking about. OP sounds like she has some weird feelings towards food and weight and she's projecting that on her kid.

And let me guess, you're the French poster? Enough said. [/quote]

I'm 5'6, 115 and most certainly not jealous of a random internet poster asking for advice. My kids are banana babies (especially one of them, who was a stick as an infant and toddler). I'm the "let them eat ice cream" poster.

OP, you are concerned, otherwise why would you post. [b]You may have to let up on sugar/salt limits a bit. [/b]I hear you, I try to limit those too, but you gotta look at each individual kid and made decisions for them, not for the average pre-diabetic overweight child. [/quote]

Yes, I have a child who has always been around <1% for weight and in the 70th-ish percentile for height. Feeding him is a major time commitment and has caused me to have to rethink my ideas about food and what is good to eat. At the end of the day, the more calories the better. He has a malaborption disorder and some eating aversions (he never wanted to eat much until he became a teen). I buy a lot of "junk" food like peanut butter cups from Trader Joe's that he will eat, in addition to providing healthy but extremely high calorie meals. But it it is difficult and stressful. I am not clear on whether your daughter just had one-time off measurements or whether she likely has an underlying issue, but it isn't generally normal to be "off the charts" in weight if you are so tall. The easiest thing would be to give her more calories and see if she is able to gain. You might want to see a specialist if this trajectory continues.

OP here. [b]Again[/b], I would love to see some [b]resources[/b] on whether giving junk food is a healthy/effective way to increase a toddler's BMI. Or are you just here to diagnose an internet poster with food issues? Because that's just bizarre.[/quote]

It's not givign "junk food" to offer ice cream as a dessert or add cream/butter to vegetables or let your child have sweet or salty foods that are appealing so he/she eats more. These are normal strategies for increasing calorie intake. It's hard to get out of the adult low-cal mindset and feed underweight kids, but it's a totally different ballgame.[/quote]

You sound like you have some experience with this. Can you share more details about your specific experience?[/quote][/quote]

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