:smt039 Another FTT baby here, but mine is a boy!

First thing you should know is a health professional is bound by law to report any baby that falls below two percentile lines (Felix went from 90% to completely off the charts)

Our story is a little different, Felix was born 3.36 kgs and full term, was a very fast gainer and made it to 7 kgs by 3.5 months, and then stopped gaining anything at 4 months..between 4-6 months he gained 20 grams..we were sent to a peadiatrician who for reasons other than this ordered tests for his breathing issues..turns out 9 mths down the track he has a respiratory condition which makes his breathing arte highre than avarega and thuse burns up calories like no ones business, he also eats like a bird and all the calorie loaded things I give him don't make a dent.

We've had a NGT because he was losing, and gaining and never getting back above the "line"(I'm talking the bottom line) The NGT got him to the 10th percentile where he is staying now just we have monthly appointments with a peadiatric dietician, peadtrician, and specialists.

I have met many people with small kids and some part of me knows that even without his respiratory rate Felix would just be alean baby, even leaner with it..my advice is get yourself positive medical people around you, a peadiciation or health nurse who says the wrong things can make your life hell, I blamed myself for months, but finally because of my peadiactric dietician who understands kids like Felix, I feel like I am doing everything I can and I cannot force feed him..he is getting better and more interested in eating all the time..

FTT is a horrible term and I have felt like I have failed him at the one thing I thought I could do best,m provde him nourishment, I think this issue is why many many women stop breastfeeding (I am still breatsfeeding and supplimenting him with beeffed up formula) @ 15 months old he is 9 kgs..so only 2 kgs heavier than he was at 3.5 months .

The others are right..you CANNOT force feed a child who wont eat (except when you ahve one of those gastly NGT tubes..he pulled his out once a week in the month he had it)

Felix is happy and has SO much eneregy and life, despite his health issues, he is slightly advanced to normal developmentally and a happy boy! I know he is okay.

Please do not react the opposite way and start stressing about every single thing that goes in her mouths, at 7 months I was told by his paed to give him 5 meals of high caloie food a day..it was impossible, and he'd cry and hate it, I'd pull my hair out and hate it, he would poo it all out as it was high in dairy and so I stopped dairy and he lost weight..I realise now if id' just not stressed he may not ahve developed the issue he has surrounding food now..maybe they would have been the same maybe not!

Anyhiow HTH!!