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Is she meeting her milestones? Walking, has a few words?

Not gaining weight within a few months wouldn’t be of concern to me as long as there wasn’t anything else going on. She is probably super active now, too. If she’d lost weight I’d be more concerned. Was she a bigger baby at 12 months? Maybe she is getting taller and “slimming out” a bit??

@snowjewelz: never hurts to get a second opinion but honestly if she is getting taller, she is growing! Weight gain slows down so much when they are super active. My daughter is super tiny too, so I know the stress. She’ll be 3 in July and I think she is about 22 or 23 lbs now. There are kids on either side of the percentiles, that’s why the graphs look the way they do!

I would try not to worry - that's such an active age, I feel like they don't gain very much! My youngest (11 months now) had some weight loss (ugh) when he had pneumonia a few months ago and I got super freaked out. So he got lots more avocado, peanut butter, etc. and he has jumped back up a little. I'm sorry mama, I know it's hard not to worry!

@snowjewelz: DD has not gained since her 12 month appt. She's just over 14 months now. I only know her weight because I took her in for an ear check today and asked them to weigh her because I felt like her diapers had gotten looser. The doctor wasn't crazy concerned, and DD had been sick recently with a bad cold, but she said we can try upping the fat content in her solids and we will re-evaluate at her 15 month appt.

I am making her oatmeal in the morning with whole milk and peanut butter. She doesn't like plain avocado but she'll eat guacomole with crackers, or Beech Nut organic makes a pouch that's avocado, green beans and peas (tastes awful) that I mix with applesauce. She does eat whole milk yogurt for lunch. She absolutely will not tolerate drinking whole milk, even if it's mixed with breastmilk, but we are going to keep offering. She only nurses twice a day now but I might start offering a third session in the afternoon again just to help her out till the next weight check. I think maybe Gingerbebe is the poster who always has great tips for adding fat to kid's foods so hopefully she'll chime in!

@snowjewelz: Lick her. If her skin is salty tasty it can be a sign of Cystic Fibrosis. It's weird I know but I've heard it's pretty accurate. Plus as long as you did her PKU blood tests as a newborn that's one of the diseases they test for - but false positive are possible.

Hopefully you get a answer soon!

And don't worry about being a mama bear for your daughter. Sometimes it hard to get doctors to listen to you but you know your daughter best. And don't be afraid to get second opinions if you feel it's needed.

How much do you trust your doctor? When I took my younger son to his 18 month appointment my doctor weighed him and said he hadn’t gained any weight or gotten any taller, and referred us to a paediatrician, who weighed him and had him 1.5 lbs heavier and 3cm taller than our GP.

@snowjewelz: I know, right? Apparently it has to do with switching from the lay-down scales to the stand-up scales, which can affect the outcome. Plus her height measurements have always been super inconsistent and approximate.

I believe my son plateaued at 12m in weight. He started walking and stopped nursing so it made the weight gain REALLY slow down.

I've seen at least 3 to 4 threads on the same topic in the past year, because I always click on them, because the same thing happened to my son around one year.

My son was in the 95th+ percentile ages 0-6m, then 70-90 for months 6-12, and since then has barely made the 50th percentile for the past 2.25 years. It all had to do with less breastmilk and preferring playing over eating once he became more mobile.

@snowjewelz: Geesh not til like 16 months (I just looked at his chart 21 lbs at 10 months, 26lbs at 18 months).
His Doctor (PA) was not concerned but I have learned long ago that they do not provide the oversight a worried mom provides. AKA she barely examines him and unless I bring something up it's never a concern