Daniel is labeled moderately malnourished.
Since 9 months old, Daniel has been labeled failure the thrive or malnourished.
He looks healthy to me and he eats when he's hungry. Daniel doesn't want to eat most of the food our family eats for each meal of the day, so he eats different from the family.
He rarely will touch meat and the food has to be easy to eat.
We visited a doctor at Valley Children's Hospital yesterday , and the doctor wants to do blood work if he doesn't gain some weight in the next 2 months.
I can say his gastrointestinal doctor is very nice and understands that Daniel is a picky eater.
I was smaller than Daniel at his age and I'm a small man at 5'5". I don't care how big Daniel is going to be, but I want him healthy and happy.
I'm @runridefly, and I hate that a healthy boy like Daniel has to labeled moderately malnourished.
Try to give him his favorite food along with nutritious.
Labels are labels. If you see Daniel as a healthy boy and hes happy, don't change what you are doing for him. From what I see in the pictures you posted, hes loving life and looks pretty darn healthy to me. Chances are he is going to grow up as a strong and healthy kid like anyone else.
I was labelled as a kid as well. I was labelled with a learning disability, they said I don't understand everything as quickly as the other kids. They said I'll need special attention to succeed. They said I needed to be in a quiet room to do my school tests because I got distracted by it. But guess what? I graduated Highschool with everyone else I refused to be in the program that was suppose to benefit me. I had good grades. I was no different then the next student. I graduated college with my learning "disability" with no extra help that they said I needed.
I just want to say this here;
Here is a huge shout-out to the "different" kids. Heck here is a massive shout out to the kids that have to "go to the special room for tests" heres to the kids that are no different from the next kid in the room. No matter what you are labelled and no matter who labelled you, you are no less of a person. It makes you who you are. own it and kill it. As someone that got laughed at in school for being "special" or whispered about as they walked out to the "special room" to do their test. I know how it is I know the fight you are going to fight, but dont let anyone feel bad for you, show them you are normal and you are going to make it through life one step at a time just like everyone else. Everyone got their own story and their own fight. Conquer it.
Labels don't define you. You are who defines you.
Most of children in that age are picky eater. But as they get older you will see an improvement. Cuteboy BTW.
I hope it is just a different way of growing up for some kids.
Good health to Daniel and Harvey.
Do not worry Daniel will be okay, sometimes we need to know about his favorite food and then try to combine it with another food. Anyway he is a cute boy. Nice! :)
Labels suck. They try to categorize everything, as though people are meant to fit in either this box or that. Daniel looks healthy and alert enough to me. My boy is a picky eater too and I'm always getting told he's too skiny or he has worms or worse, insinuate I'm not feeding him enough 🙄
Hi! I have to say that I can relate to this post. My youngest son is a picky eater. He doesn't like meat unless it's a chicken strip from the deli, at the grocery store.
I try and make him smoothies with FAGE Greek yogurt, (protein) spinach and berries wth some honey. It's like he loves everything you're not supposed to have all the time. I keep saying to myself , his brothers were like this too and this will pass. I just want him healthy as well. I always pray that God will give him a healthy appetite. All of his older brothers are small framed as well. Anyway I just wanted to say that I understand the frustration. 😊
My kid doesn't eat either but she's still on formula. Kids just don't eat sometimes. I'd say get the bloodwork done to see if he's short on any vitamins just in case. If he's a picky eater it's possible.
Doctors have hemorrhages over the smallest thing. I have a child that is well beyond 99 percentile in height (and the weight to go along with it) and yet no mention of her "condition." She's just going to be a tall, stout woman.
And just because there are runts doesn't mean anything is wrong metabolically. I went to school with a family of short stature boys... they always got quite a ribbing because the big boys outweighed them by 80 pounds or so by the time they entered their Freshman year in high school. One of them was locked inside a school locker ... I would say probably three times every semester.
I don't tend to say that, to be honest. I say it's the most important thing I've ever done, and the most rewarding thing I've ever done, but I tend to avoid generalising that and assuming it must therefore be important to other people.
For me, creating a new human being and raising him to be a happy adult is likely to be the most important contribution I will make to the world. I have an interesting and challenging job I love, but I have no interest in becoming famous. I'm not a scientist so probably won't cure cancer. This is where I'm putting my energies, and I think I've chosen well.childrens are most imfortant thing in the worls..great post.nice one here..