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Failure to Thrive
Not sure if this is where I should post this, but I hope someon can help me out!
A little backstory... My name is Beth and my DH and I have just been approved as a foster home. We plan to adopt through the foster system as well.
We have one bio daughter (Sarah Beth) who is 2. She was born 3 months early, so we've dealt with a lot of doctors and therapies (still are).
At our second homestudy, just a few days after we finished our MAPP classes, the resource worker told us she had a boy she wanted to place with us. I just met him yesterday.
He's 15 months old, but developmentally a lot younger. He was diagnosised with failure to thrive after he came into care. He is SO skinny!! Current foster mom has had him since he was 5 months old. Birth mom has not been in the picture for almost as long as he's been in the system. In fact, they aren't really even sure where she is anymore.
Current foster mom has had him at tons of doctors and even spent a couple of weeks in two different hospitals to see if they could figure out why he doesn't gain weight. Nothing was found. He' s 16 lbs. He doesn't crawl or walk... but he is sitting up.
I was wondering if anyone has experienced failure to thrive or kids that never gain weight? He's only eating Pediasure right now... and a very little bit of baby food.
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