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I'm happy to see this thread is still going. I'm learning so much.
Yesturday I found out our baby is asthmatic. Yippy...more breathing treatments. I also went over his food issues with the Pediatrician (a different one) and was told again to let him eat as much as he wants. I don't think they get it-he will eat until he spits up. Also he was 19 pounds 4 weeks ago he is now almost 23 pounds. I do not think that kind of weight gain is healthy and it has been since he was transitioned into our home so it is essentially our situation causing such a drastic weight gain.
Joschild I think we have a similar situation with our foster/adopt baby that you had with your foster son. Only he was 3 months old when he entered care and his only form of comfort was a bottle propped to his face. You would think that at 3 months he could recover but his foster mom struggled with it for 8 months until he moved to our home. He was obsessed with the bottle now it is transferred to food. I think his foster mom may have limited his food a little too much, okay its hard to say because the poor lady had to deal with what I'm dealing with and when do you say enough is enough? He was only 19 pounds at 12 months and only gained one pound from 3 months to 12 months old. I think that is strange. I'm frustrated because I know he 's being manipulative about food and I feel I am feeding the manipulation by giving in to his screams for more food as instructed. I also do not feel it is healthy to let him eat until he is spitting up.
So I called his SW today to get her take on it, thank goodness for good Social Workers! She told me that often Pediatricians do not get that the magnitude of these issues. She told me to feed him an appropriate healthy amount and then tell him he is full no matter how much he screams. To try before he starts to scream to redirect him to something fun that has nothing to do with food. She said if this is not resolved within a month she will get us into a specialist. I also wonder if allergies are not a part of this since we know he is asthmatic for sure now and we know his mom gave him cereal from birth????
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