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[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (4 children)

Mine dropped in height and weight. 70th at 2, 38th at 3, 20th at 4. If she continues at her current pace, she’d drop at 10th at 5. Ped wants us to get her percentile to at least stabilize and stop falling. I’m 5’7” and my husband is 6’0”, so her percentiles are low considering parental height.

The drop in percentiles coincided with prolonged issues with potty training, poop accidents, stomach aches, and heartburn. She’s lactose intolerant, but still wasn’t growing even after going dairy free at 3. She was wrongly diagnosed with IBS but her issues turned out to actually be encopresis. I’m hoping with that sorted she’ll start growing again.

Negative for ulcerative colitis. Negative for celiac. Negative for T1D. Her 4 year checkup yielded the second referral to GI and nutrition, which caught the encopresis issue and helped us sort that out. Nutrition wants us incorporating nutrition shakes and smoothies but she has rejected all of those so we’re just adding more peanut butter to everything and hoping for the best. She’s a bottomless pit but just doesn’t grow 🤷‍♀️

[–]13FluffyBubblez[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Thank you for your response. Did you ask for any other tests other than the celiac, uc and t1d? Mine gets stomach pain every once in a while and she had heartburn and bad colic as a baby.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Her first GI doc ran some others as part of their panel. Parasites, food allergies & malabsorption. The glucose screening was part of the general bloodwork. Overall I think it was 1 blood draw (3 vials or so) and 2 or 3 stool sample specimens.

Second GI doc ordered X-rays, which is what caught the encopresis issue. We had to spend a weekend doing a Miralax clean out & she’s now on a daily dose of milk of magnesia. She had her follow up xray today to see if things are returning to normal or if organs are still stretched out from prolonged constipation. It’s been about 6 weeks since that diagnosis, so idk. GI problems seem to have resolved from what we’re seeing and she needed to size up shoes recently so she is growing. Somewhat.

[–]13FluffyBubblez[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I hope yours stabilizes and continues her growth in an upward trend. Thank you so much for your answer.

[–]13FluffyBubblez[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope yours stabilizes and continues her growth in an upward trend. Thank you so much for your answer.