Recognizing a Baby's Failure to Thrive | Infant Care

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You'll often hear your doctor say words "failure to thrive," and failure to thrive really means your baby is not putting on weight, and that can be extremely dangerous in a newborn.

The way to spot it at home is to notice if your baby is not eating, not finishing feeds, and really not gaining weight. If you're concerned, you can buy a scale and measure your baby, or you can take your baby to your doctor as many times as you want to figure out if they are gaining the appropriate weight they should from the hospital.

Typically, babies will be born at their birth weight, drop a little bit of weight when they leave the hospital, and then gain weight at a rapid pace. If you're noticing that your baby is not gaining weight and not finishing their feeds, you really need to go to your doctor and check them out and figure out why they're not thriving.

Is it they can't tolerate the food, they can't keep the food down, or they don't want to eat? So it's really important to monitor that and be in close contact with your doctor.

[Wheighjcher]

"you really need to go to your doctor"
Dutch doctors: she's fine

The tough reality of an expat parent 😢

[YW]

I had a failure to thrive when I was born as well. 😮....

[cu]

She was really good at given that information, all in just a minute. Thank you. 

[GrimmNightIsYoung]

When I was born i had a failure to thrive I ended up having a feeding tube and didn't take food in through my mouth (and actually kept it down) until I was 5 months and even with the feeding tube I almost never kept anything down.

[DuvAngel]

I failed to thrive in the basement in Minot North Dakota in 1958.

[Volleyball_Chess_and_Geoguessr]

"finishing their feeds" - what does that even mean? If they're done breastfeeding, they're done breastfeeding. Or do you use a clock to determine when they're done? That can actually result in failure to thrive because higher fat breast milk is at the end of a feed.

[Phantominfernox]

My baby failed to thrive in the wilderness.

[HackerActivist]

I had a failure to thrive baby but I fed her every two ounces. They made me use a special formula with 22 cal instead of 20.

Once I switched her from the extra calorie premie formula to happy baby organics she started growing. Mind you every baby is different. But I believe the heavy calories made her more drowsy and then in turn she missed feedings and would not wake up even when you undressed her and put her in slightly cool water.
I fed her every two hours on happy baby organics and she is slowly but steadily thriving

[tsunamieyes]

I'm confused do these people think you wouldn't notice if your newborn wasn't eating or picking up weight..I think Howcast is running out of idea's

[kotosqopos]

What's the point with all these stupid comments?

[hazelanwar]

so sorry this video doesn't help at all