Faliure to Thrive, Please share this with your paed :)

[Early Kids]

I so agree, it's an awful term!

Brendan was a FTT bub in his early months, as if having him born so early wasnt enough of a stress to then have the CHN tell me if he didn't gain weight she would send us to the hospital!

I like the weight gain resistant term, much nicer.

[*Beema*]

I agree it is a terrible term, and very frightening for a parent, when I was told it was when DD started losing weight and was already nearly 1kg below the 1st %ile it was very upsetting, I was already worried anough let alone the sound of that term and what comes with it!

I can see why something like this can also lead to PND.

I also don't like the word syndrome as FTT or WGR is not a syndrome...

Weight Gain Resistant is good

[maz]

WGR....I like it. weight gain resistant yeah baby

As for that MCHN...she needs a slap in the face for that comment. maybe she should be labelled...slow on the uptake Biartch!

Doesnt it make you laugh though....that everything our babies do 'need's' a label to justify what 'stage' they are at at that present time.

What ever did they do in the 1800's without all these catagories

[Yael]

Yeh, i know i haven't failed as a mum - I advocate strongly so my DD will get the best medical care possible.. I'm so glad her FTT developed only past 6 months, imagine how much i would have doubted myself about my wonderful b/feeding abilities if she did have. I already felt like i was such a failure and it was my fault she was growth retarded a birth... I felt i couldn't grow and nourish her properally.... Now i think, gosh my milk was so great it kept the FTT at bay until she wasn't being exclusively breat fed - and so i have not failed!!

But surgery is tomorrow - we are hoping for a cause for our FTT!!!!

[danniellabella]

TBH, when I first heard "failure to thrive" I thought of a child on life support or worse, and when I was first told that my niece was a FTT baby, that was what was going through my mind and it terrified me, I thought she was about to die. Then I found out what it actually meant.
I think FTT is a very cruel term and scare tactics are not useful when you are dealing with a child, especially an infant. I know how bad it made my sister feel and I don't even want to think about how bad I would have felt if I had been told my DD (who is currently my only child) was a FTT.

So I agree, the term FTT MUST GO!
I like Weight Gain Resistant. I don't like SBS because as mentioned, it's too close to Shaken Baby Syndrome.

[TTCALoveChild]

I'm raising my FTT Nephew he was 9 months oldatthe time ( and now he is a active 5 yr old) but his FTT was caused by his mother for starving him and neglect, kept him in a closed room with windows shut and blankets on..This is what we was told that is why he got the FTT...But from what i hear in here that wouldnt be the case..

I wanted to say also I like Weight Gain Resistant. I don't like SBS because as mentioned, it's too close to Shaken Baby Syndrome.
and FTT is a term that scared me when we was first told.. Lil wade Jr was lifeflighted to a children hospital since he was in this FTT and his kidneys were shutting down. We almost lost him .. So that there was enough for me to fight custody for my brother and yes we did win.. so i been raising Alyse,wade jr and breanna They are 7,5 and 6 Very happy active children that love life!

anita