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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue is that the ped is talking to you but not making it clear whether she is identifying a real medical concern that requires action or whether she's just observing his size and saying well, you might try to goose him up the chart by doing XYZ if you want to try it but no harm either way.

It's really a shame that she doesn't know how to be clear because you shouldn't have to exist in a state of uncertainty and resultant anxiety about this.

That would be the reason why I'd think about a different ped. You want someone whose cues to you are not equivocal. [/quote]

If someone is genetically destined to be thin and small, isn't shovelling in extra calories actually harmful? In a nation with rising obesity rates I'm surprised people are still leaning towards pushing more calories. [/quote]

Nope. The baby will spit up what is not needed. The end.

Keep your obesity fears out of this. [/quote]

This is dismissive and not accurate. We don’t need to concern troll about obesity, sure, but respecting a baby’s hunger and fullness teaches them to moderate their eating and is respectful. Over feeding a baby to the point they vomit is not necessary to do intentionally and regularly.[/quote]

DP but the gradual shifting of the Overton window of size of Americans is making people who were “small to average” a few decades ago “oh my god tiny” now. I am the poster who was monitored for IUGR and had a small-but-on-the-charts baby. She’s roughly the same weight I was at birth but while no one said anything to my mom, nurses in the hospital and the younger docs at our pediatric practice (not our doc who is older and remembers when babies were smaller) constantly said how small she was. Over-feeding a baby so they spit up—intentionally!— is cruel.[/quote]

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