I also ended up being stressed out about my DD's lack of weight gains, especially because she started out on the 95 percentile at birth and very quickly dropped below the 3rd percentile! Which is an absolute HUGE difference.

I had MCHN's telling me to feed her chocolate and cream to fatten her up. The first paediatrician I saw told me to put her on formula feeds, so I found a second paediatrician who ran all kinds of tests, which all came back completely normal and in fact showed that she was and is a completely healthy girl. Just much, much smaller than all of kids her age.

Like Kate07 I spent a period of time attempting to force feed, when all the other signs were good. I think there is too much emphasise placed on weight gains but you need to look at the whole picture:

  • Is the baby growing (even if it's small amounts and don't just look at the weight also look at height, width, head circumference, etc)?
  • Are they happy?
  • Are they healthy?
  • Number of wet and poo nappies.