I don't feed my kid enough junk food

Liz4444 · October 2012

We went to the pedi for li's 1 year appointment today. He charted her weight and height and she is in the 50 for height but only the 5 for weight. He asked me what she eats, I told him her favorite foods are peas, edamame, olives and shrimp. He said, so, you give her all healthy foods. I told him not always, yesterday at lunch she had a hot dog, French fries, and chocolate pudding. He proceeds to tell me that she's not going to gain any weight on her favorite foods and she should be having the hot dog, French fries, pudding lunch 7 days a week!

A doctor who prescribes chocolate, who doesn't want that?

anasazi17 · October 2012

I wish my doctor would prescribe me chocolate!!

Get that girl some chocolate ice-cream and a hot dog stat!!

Liz4444 · October 2012

wishful thinkin:
Lucky Li! S loves carbs and eats them all the time and still doesn't gain weight. They are doing a lot of moving around to be gaining a lot of weight. Did he seem concerned about the lack of weight she is gaining? I am nervous about our 1yo check up.

He didn't seem concerned. He asked if she was eating, we told him she eats a ton. She looks proportional and it's how I was when I was her age. She just never sits still!

shediva1 · October 2012

Well then, I say buy a chocolate fountain and drench her favorite foods in that baby!

Sammy-Mae · October 2012

Score!!! I want that perscription!!!

aliciaroset · October 2012

are you serious?

If my pedi recommended that I'd seriously side eye him. Aside from all the preservatives and crap in hot dogs, what about the sodium?

I would have suggested giving her, you know, real fats, like avocado, butter (grass-fed if you can) whole milk dairy (E is obsessed with full fat cottage cheese right now) and stuff like that.

That's really weird advice. It's just not nutritionally sound.

DD has about a 40% difference between height and weight but nobody has cared. I don't think you should worry as long as you're offering her lots of food.
Also, a little one that eats peas and olives is pretty flippin awesome in my book!

leahandbuck · October 2012

H had her appt. today and she is in the 17th percent for height and 6th percent for weight. I think she looks proportionate and the doctor said babies generally don't gain a lot of weight at this age because they are learning to crawl and walk. I wonder if babies are becoming more obese like more adults and if that will impact these percentiles in the future.

lkm2006 · October 2012

Maybe I'll get a thumbs up at our appointment then!

I make sure he does eat a well balanced diet but the boy definitely has a sweet tooth!

Scramblersmom · October 2012

I am jealous of your 1 yo! If I look at chocolate I will gain an additional 10 lbs. Lucky DD!

Elsa1984 · October 2012

aliciaroset:
are you serious?
If my pedi recommended that I'd seriously side eye him. Aside from all the preservatives and crap in hot dogs, what about the sodium?
I would have suggested giving her, you know, real fats, like avocado, butter (grass-fed if you can) whole milk dairy (E is obsessed with full fat cottage cheese right now) and stuff like that.
That's really weird advice. It's just not nutritionally sound.
DD has about a 40% difference between height and weight but nobody has cared. I don't think you should worry as long as you're offering her lots of food.
Also, a little one that eats peas and olives is pretty flippin awesome in my book!

This! My Pedi would never suggest feeding Gator junk just to fatten her up. It is okay to have something every once in awhile....I am not going to pretend she eats 100 percent healthy 100 percent of the time. But our Pedi would have given us a list of healthier foods that have more fat like avocado. If she loves to eat, I wouldn't worry about being in a hurry to get her to gain more weight.....she may just be a tiny kid. If she was an awful eater, going down on the weigh charts, and looking malnurioushed....that it completely different. But if she is proportionate, eating like a champ, and active....I don't see the need in feeding junk to her seven days a week.

My friends son has always been tiny...he was a little over six pounds at birth and has always eaten good. Her brother in law has really fat kids around the same age and he is always telling her that her son doesn't look healthy because he isn't fat. But she feeds her son healthy foods and he feeds his kids unhealthy foods. They don't have to be fat to be considered "healthy". She asked her Pedi and he gave her a chart of foods to fatten him up. She fed him like normal and worried like crazy thinking he wasn't thriving. At the next appointment he was still in the steady weight/height climb but not higher in weight than he would have been if she would have fed him junky foods. He was still proportionate. He is now 16 months old and still a little guy....Gator is 11mo and she has passed him in weight. But she said she worried over nothing and wished the doctor would have just looked at the fact that he was still thriving and growing ,instead of acting like being small was bad.

Liz4444 · October 2012

aliciaroset:
are you serious?nbsp;If my pedi recommended that I'd seriously side eye him. Aside from all the preservatives and crap in hot dogs, what about the sodium? nbsp;I would have suggested giving her, you know, real fats, like avocado, butter grassfed if you can whole milk dairy E is obsessed with full fat cottage cheese right now and stuff like that. That's really weird advice. It's just not nutritionally sound.DD has about a 40 difference between height and weight but nobody has cared. I don't think you should worry as long as you're offering her lots of food.Also, a little one that eats peas and olives is pretty flippin awesome in my book!nbsp;

I took what he said as she needs more fat calories, I didn't take him literally as give her hot dogs and French fries every day.

morsey2011 · October 2012

Liz4444:
aliciaroset:
are you serious?nbsp;If my pedi recommended that I'd seriously side eye him. Aside from all the preservatives and crap in hot dogs, what about the sodium? nbsp;I would have suggested giving her, you know, real fats, like avocado, butter grassfed if you can whole milk dairy E is obsessed with full fat cottage cheese right now and stuff like that. That's really weird advice. It's just not nutritionally sound.DD has about a 40 difference between height and weight but nobody has cared. I don't think you should worry as long as you're offering her lots of food.Also, a little one that eats peas and olives is pretty flippin awesome in my book!nbsp;
I took what he said as she needs more fat calories, I didn't take him literally as give her hot dogs and French fries every day.

That is how I would have taken it, Liz. Sounds like your doctor has a sense of humor.

HappyAardvark · October 2012

Liz4444:
aliciaroset:
are you serious?nbsp;If my pedi recommended that I'd seriously side eye him. Aside from all the preservatives and crap in hot dogs, what about the sodium? nbsp;I would have suggested giving her, you know, real fats, like avocado, butter grassfed if you can whole milk dairy E is obsessed with full fat cottage cheese right now and stuff like that. That's really weird advice. It's just not nutritionally sound.DD has about a 40 difference between height and weight but nobody has cared. I don't think you should worry as long as you're offering her lots of food.Also, a little one that eats peas and olives is pretty flippin awesome in my book!nbsp;

I took what he said as she needs more fat calories, I didn't take him literally as give her hot dogs and French fries every day.

stop lying. You know you were about to start gutloading her with cheez whiz and kozy shack.

thetheisens · October 2012

Besides, everyone knows Liz raises her own chickens organically to make the nuggets, the fries were baked sweet potato fries, and the pudding was all natural and made with Greek yogurt. Geeze.

Liz4444 · October 2012

HappyAardvark:
Liz4444:
aliciaroset:
are you serious?nbsp;If my pedi recommended that I'd seriously side eye him. Aside from all the preservatives and crap in hot dogs, what about the sodium? nbsp;I would have suggested giving her, you know, real fats, like avocado, butter grassfed if you can whole milk dairy E is obsessed with full fat cottage cheese right now and stuff like that. That's really weird advice. It's just not nutritionally sound.DD has about a 40 difference between height and weight but nobody has cared. I don't think you should worry as long as you're offering her lots of food.Also, a little one that eats peas and olives is pretty flippin awesome in my book!nbsp;

I took what he said as she needs more fat calories, I didn't take him literally as give her hot dogs and French fries every day.
stop lying. You know you were about to start gutloading her with cheez whiz and kozy shack.

I did give her some kozy shack rice pudding tonight after her chicken ravioli and peas...

Mrs. Mo · October 2012

wishful thinkin:

Lucky Li! S loves carbs and eats them all the time and still doesn't gain weight. They are doing a lot of moving around to be gaining a lot of weight. Did he seem concerned about the lack of weight she is gaining? I am nervous about our 1yo check up.

G loves her carbs as well (must be an Italian thing Stick out tongue ) and is still hovering around the 20-25 percentile. Her doc isn't all that concerned, though, since her height/weight % has always been consistant (20/25 weight & 75/80 height)

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