Guest guest Posted January 20, 2005 Report Share Posted January 20, 2005 I just wanted to celebrate a wonderful well child visit. My son wasn't as little as some kids we read about, but he was smaller than he should have been. He was 27 pounds at 12 months (pretty big)...and then I stopped nursing him, and he stopped growing. By the time he was diagnosed in July with gluten intolerance, he was actually losing some of the weight we'd managed to foist off on him. His pre-diagnosis nutritionist had given us all kinds of ideas on fattening him up. It isn't normal for a toddler to not gain weight for two years, or to grow any taller. We got him up to 34 pounds at 4.5 years last July. Now, at his well-child visit Tuesday, he was 42.8 pounds, and he'd grown 2.5 inches! He went from the 10th percentile to the 50th! I know there are lots of kids who are even smaller (my daughter was only 19 pounds at 3 years due to chronic infections), but he wasn't supposed to be tiny. He was such a butter ball before we fed him solid foods. It is so gratifying to watch this diet work. It can be stressful, but it's all worth it when he is too big to fit into slim pants! And he's so accustomed to the diet now that if people ask him why he can't eat a bun, he calmly tells them that he'll puke...on them. Kids! Becki in FL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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