nikkilcotie
Assistant Cook
- Joined
- Feb 9, 2007
- Messages
- 12
I guess I've been pent up prior to joining DC! I hope nobody gets annoyed at how much I plan on sharing with everyone! LOL. I have a 3 year old (turns 4 in August) daughter. She is currently at 62 lbs and her height is 42 1/2 inches (which is past the height of a 4 toddler I think). Since birth to 15 mo., her doctors would tell me feed her (formula, cereal, etc) on demand. She was ALWAYS eating! My mother in law wasn't happy. My daughter was gaining weight FAST! Doctors still said nothing. She was 4 months old when she got RSV (had NO idea what this was at the time) and the DR's said it was a good thing she was chubby, because she lost more weight than she should have. And they still said it was ok for her to eat the way she did. Finally at 15 months, I found a doctor who said we had a problem. She was too big. She's 3 now and wearing size 8-10 GIRLS pants. She doesn't eat enough to explain her size and she's quite active. I've been to 7 pediatricians. I dread when she goes to school, if she's still big. She's already really tall for her age, and kids can be SOOO cruel. Since I'm pregnant again, I've been told I can't even pick her up because she's too big. Do toddler's go on diets? Is it safe? What foods are best for them? And is OJ (Sunny D) really good for them? It's getting harder to trust Doctors when I've already been to 7 and a specialist. Their opinions are so scattered in different directions I don't know what to do. I just want her to be happy and healthy and complex free.