What does it take for a child to gain weight? The child is not gaining weight

In the modern world, there is an acute problem of increasing the number of children suffering from obesity. However, doctors note that the problem of underweight in children also remains relevant, and many children would benefit from gaining a few kilograms. However, this is not such a simple task: it is not enough to simply allow the child to eat whatever he wants. Instead, you should change your eating habits, include nutritious, high-calorie foods in your diet, and “secretly” add extra calories to your usual meals. If you think your child needs to gain weight, be sure to consult with a specialist before helping him gain weight.

Steps

Identifying causes

Try to establish the reasons. Just like adults, some children are simply thin and find it quite difficult to gain extra weight. However, you should rule out other possible reasons why your child looks too thin.

Children are quite picky eaters, but if your child constantly has a poor appetite, this may indicate some kind of physiological or psychological disorder. Sometimes excessive thinness is associated with hormonal problems or metabolic disorders, such as diabetes or hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid gland).
Eating may be associated with discomfort due to gastrointestinal disorders or allergies to any foods.
If your child is taking any medications, be aware that some medications may reduce appetite.
Unfortunately, factors such as peer pressure can also lead to digestive disorders even in children of preschool and primary school age.
Perhaps your child is simply very active and expends more calories than he or she takes in.

Consult your pediatrician. If you and your child have regular checkups, your pediatrician may advise your child to gain weight. Don't hesitate to ask your doctor for advice about your concerns.
- As noted, intolerance and allergies to certain foods, digestive problems and many other disorders can lead to excessive thinness in a child. The pediatrician will help establish the correct diagnosis and prescribe appropriate treatment.
- In most cases, the situation can be corrected by changes in everyday life and habits. However, expert advice never hurts.
Follow your doctor's instructions when feeding your baby. The methods for gaining weight as an infant are certainly different from those for older children. Serious illnesses are rare: underweight is mainly caused by improper feeding, insufficient breast milk or gastrointestinal disorders.
- If you think your baby is not gaining weight well, be sure to consult with your doctor. The pediatrician will examine your child, order the necessary tests, and refer you to a nutritionist who will instruct you on proper feeding, or to a pediatric gastroenterologist.
- Treatment will depend on the specific situation and may include the following measures: supplementary feeding with formula milk (in case of insufficient breast milk); feeding the child not according to a strict schedule, but when he wants; switching to another milk formula (if you are intolerant or allergic to the previous milk formula or switching to a higher-calorie formula); introducing complementary foods a little earlier than six months after birth. In some cases, your doctor may prescribe medications for acid reflux.
- Timely weight gain early in life is very important for subsequent health, so if you have the slightest problem, you should consult a doctor. Lack of weight can almost always be eliminated in time, and it will not affect the child’s health.
Changing eating habits
1. Feed your underweight baby more often. In many cases, the problem is not what the child eats, but the amount of food. Young children have a small stomach capacity, so they need to eat more often than adults.
  - It is often recommended that children eat five to seven times a day, not counting snacks between meals.
  - Feed your baby whenever he is hungry.
2. Give importance to meals. Without giving up light snacks, pay special attention to main meals. Teach your child not to be distracted while eating and to enjoy food.
  
  Set the right example. It may turn out that your child would benefit from gaining a couple of kilograms, while you, on the contrary, would benefit from losing weight. However, even in this situation, your diet and your baby's diet should not be very different. Nutrient-rich foods are good for everyone, including thin and overweight people.
  - Looking at adults, children take their example from them. If your diet is varied and includes healthy, natural foods such as vegetables, fruits and whole grains, your children will adopt your healthy eating habits.
  - Try to eliminate unhealthy foods from the family diet, regardless of whether any family members need to gain or lose weight.
3. Get your child into the habit of regular physical exercise. Like eating healthy, exercise is more often associated with weight loss rather than gain. However, if you combine exercise with proper nutrition, it will help you gain weight.
  - Typically, increased muscle mass promotes weight gain, especially in older children; This method is certainly more beneficial than the accumulation of fatty tissue.
  - Exercise generally stimulates the appetite, so encourage exercise before meals and see what happens.
Choosing nutritious, high-calorie foods
1. Avoid junk food. Yes, cakes, pastries, cookies, sugary drinks and fast food do contain a lot of calories that contribute to weight gain. However, consuming them can lead to a variety of health problems (including even diabetes and heart disease in children) that far outweigh the minor benefits of mild weight gain.
  - High-calorie but nutrient-poor foods, such as sugary drinks, do not promote healthy weight gain. It is better to eat food rich in both calories and nutrients: helping to gain weight, it provides the body with essential vitamins and minerals.
  - Don't tell your child that he should “get fat” or “put meat on his bones”—instead, tell him that you both need to eat healthier foods.
2. Compose your diet with a variety of nutrient-rich foods. Variety is important not only because it provides the body with all the necessary vitamins and minerals: it also maintains interest in food and helps you enjoy it. The monotony of food can discourage a child from eating.
  - A high-calorie, nutritious diet for weight gain in children should include foods rich in starchy carbohydrates (bread, pasta, cereals), at least five servings of vegetables and fruits daily, proteins (meat, fish, eggs, legumes) and dairy products (milk, cheese, etc.).
  - All children under two years of age need whole milk products, and your child's doctor may recommend giving your child these products later in life to help with weight gain.
  - Although a healthy diet should include foods rich in dietary fiber, you should not give too much of it to a child who is trying to gain weight. After a large portion of a dish made from brown rice or whole grain pasta, the child will feel full for too long and even overeat.
3. Give your child healthy fats. We tend to think of fat as something bad, but this is not always the case. Many fats, especially plant-based ones, are essential for a healthy diet. These fats also help you gain weight because they contain about nine calories per gram, while there are only about four calories per gram of carbohydrates or proteins.
  - Flaxseed and coconut oils are good options and can be added to many dishes. Flaxseed oil is almost odorless, while coconut oil is often added for a pleasant aroma; They can be used to season a variety of dishes, from vegetable salads to smoothies.
  - Olives and olive oil also work well.
  - Nuts and seeds, such as almonds and pistachios, will provide your baby with plenty of healthy fats.
  - Avocado will add a creamy consistency to dishes and also provide the body with healthy fats.
4. Choose the right snacks. Children who are gaining weight need to snack from time to time. As with main meals, choose healthy foods rather than high-calorie, nutrient-poor foods.
  - Opt for nutritious, high-calorie meals that are easy to prepare and serve as snacks. For example, you can make sandwiches with peanut butter and jelly and whole grain bread, make a nutritious trail mix with nuts and dried fruits, apples and cheese, or fill pancakes with sliced avocado.
  - As a treat, you can first use bran muffins, oatmeal cookies with nuts and honey, or yogurt, and only then offer your guests regular cookies, cakes and ice cream.
5. Monitor what and when your child drinks. It is important for children not to lack water, but too much liquid creates a feeling of fullness and suppresses the appetite.
Increasing the number of calories in food
1. Don't forget the milk. Dairy products can be added to a wide variety of dishes. This will increase the number of calories and nutritional value of your food.
  - Milk smoothies and shakes are a great way to get in extra calories. By adding fresh fruit to them, you will improve the taste and provide the child's body with the necessary nutrients.
  - Melted or grated cheese can be added to almost any dish, from scrambled eggs to fresh salads or baked vegetables.
  - Try cooking soups with milk instead of water. If you give your child chopped vegetables or fruits, encourage him to dip them in a sauce made from sour cream, cream cheese, or yogurt.
  - If your child has a milk allergy or you don't want to use dairy products for any other reason, you have an alternative. Soy and almond milk also contain quite a few calories and a variety of nutrients, and you can add soft (silken) tofu to a variety of smoothies.

Which parent doesn't want their child to be healthy? Health is always associated with the weight and appearance of the baby. After all, healthy children should not look emaciated, but those who suffer from chronic illnesses or simply often get colds are often thin. The role of weight in assessing the general condition of children in the first year of life is especially great: here, literally by grams, the baby’s weight gain is assessed monthly, and any deviations make parents worry.

The anxiety of young mothers is further aggravated by questions and jokes from “kind-hearted” relatives and friends (“Oh, how thin you are, your mother probably doesn’t feed you well”) and comparisons of their own child with the chubby babies of friends. At this point, even mothers who are not prone to excessive anxiety begin to doubt: maybe he really is thin? And how to fatten him up? Really, what?

But before we move on to this issue, I would like to remind you that your child is not a pig, and there is no need to “fatten” him for the joy of others. And the fact of lack of mass should be established by a doctor (ideally, not even one), and not by the parents, relatives and friends themselves. When assessing the weight of children, not only age is taken into account, but also other parameters (height, constitutional features, mobility of the child, etc.), which will be difficult for a non-specialist to correctly correlate with each other. If the mass is insufficient, then during measures to restore it (special nutrition, sometimes biological supplements, vitamins and medications are required), it is imperative to find out the reason.

Nutrition of low birth weight babies in the first half of life

At the age of up to 6 months, there are several main reasons for underweight, according to which nutrition selection will be carried out:

Premature babies and children born with IUGR (intrauterine growth retardation)

Breast milk will help your newborn gain weight well.

Immediately after birth, such babies have a low (less than 2500 g) body weight; they are often transferred to the intensive care unit, where they immediately begin feeding with artificial formula. However, mother's milk will be optimal for them, so the mother needs to maintain and stimulate lactation even if she is separated from the child. It is breast milk, even if obtained from a bottle after pumping, that is best absorbed and will help the baby gain weight. Well, when there is not enough milk or there is no milk at all, babies are prescribed special medicinal formulas for premature infants, the name of which contains the prefix “pre” (“Friso Pre”, “Pre Nan”, “Pregestimil”, etc.). In addition, artificial formulas for premature infants are divided according to the weight of the child (“Nutrilon Pre” - for feeding children weighing up to 1800 g, “Nutrilon Pre 1” - for children weighing from 1800 g).

Special formulas for premature babies, compared to regular formulas, contain more protein, fat and carbohydrates, and therefore are higher in calories. They also contain more vitamins, macro- and microelements. Some manufacturers produce mixtures with partially digested protein (“Nan Pre”). The enriched protein-fat and carbohydrate composition helps the child gain weight faster, the additional introduction of vitamins, macro- and microelements helps prevent the development of rickets and iron deficiency anemia, and partial hydrolysis facilitates the absorption of the mixture in the immature gastrointestinal tract of the premature baby.

If the newborn tolerated the formula prescribed to him in the maternity hospital normally, then after discharge no experiments are carried out and this same mixture is left either until the child reaches the age of 1 month or until he gains weight of 3 kg. Then the question is decided individually (in each case by a doctor): is formula needed (for mixed feeding) or will breast milk be sufficient? If necessary, a subsequent formula is selected.

False hypogalactia

They talk about false hypogalactia when the mother (or pediatrician) for some reason believes that the baby does not have enough milk, but in reality the child receives enough. Advice: do not immediately rush to supplement your child’s feeding, first understand the problem: carry out repeated weighings on the same scales, control weighing after feeding, consult another doctor if necessary, rule out pathology (primarily diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, enzymatic deficiency). Premature introduction of supplementary feeding will lead to a gradual decline in lactation and the development of true hypogalactia.

True hypogalactia

When the fact of insufficient breast milk production is established, and no measures to stimulate lactation have an effect, we can talk about true hypogalactia. In such a situation, the baby constantly lacks mother's milk and either additional introduction of artificial milk substitutes - supplementary feeding (mixed feeding) is required, or, in the complete absence of milk, a transition to completely artificial feeding.

Remember that supplementary feeding of a child under the age of 6 months is possible only with specially designed formulas for artificial feeding (usually marked with the number 1 next to the name: “NAN-1”, “Nutrilon-1”). The selection of the mixture should be carried out on the recommendation and under the supervision of a pediatrician.

Do not listen to the advice of all-knowing grandmothers and neighbors and other “natural and healthy” foods. The gastrointestinal tract of a baby up to six months is not able to cope with the digestion of any food other than human milk (or at least adapted mixtures that imitate this milk). Otherwise, you risk not only not getting the desired result (weight gain), but also providing your baby with such unpleasant conditions as functional digestive disorders, gastritis, etc.

What and how to feed a child from 6 months to a year for weight gain

Complementary feeding for underweight children usually starts with porridge.

From 6 months onwards, complementary foods begin to appear on babies' menus. But the principles of introducing complementary foods for children with malnutrition (lack of weight) are exactly the same as for children with normal weight - there is no need to rush to include new types of food in the diet.

What helps you gain weight:

Feeding on schedule. After six months, it is recommended to accustom the child to a certain daily routine; even breastfeeding can no longer be given on demand, but “according to a schedule.” Complementary foods are even more important - feed the baby at the same time, which will normalize the processes of separation of digestive juices and, in general, will have a positive effect on the condition of the child’s gastrointestinal tract, the percentage of digestible food will increase, which means there will be an increase in body weight.
Feedings should be frequent - at least every 4 hours. Night break – 6 hours.
Increasing the daily calorie intake is carried out only after consultation with a doctor. It is recommended to primarily increase the intake of carbohydrates (through cereals - they can be given twice a day, sweet fruits and vegetables) and proteins (mainly through infant formula). Be sure to give your child meat, cottage cheese, kefir every day - they are introduced according to age. The fat content in the menu is usually not increased.

What to avoid:

Overfeeding. Overfeeding leads to overload of the gastrointestinal tract. With frequent overfeeding, digestive disruptions with episodes of diarrhea and vomiting are possible - as a result, the child will lose, rather than gain, weight.
Force feeding. Force feeding often causes the baby to vomit after eating. In addition, with this approach to nutrition, children develop an aversion to the very process of eating, and each time it will be more and more difficult to persuade the child to eat.
Introducing fatty foods and easily digestible carbohydrates (sugar, pasta). An excess of fats and refined carbohydrates disrupts metabolic processes and creates the preconditions for further developments. And getting rid of extra pounds will be much harder than gaining them. Fats are poorly digested and lead to digestive problems.

What and how to feed a child over one year old to gain weight

Which will help your child gain weight:

Regularity of feeding – we feed according to a schedule and at least 4 times a day.
A varied diet. Children often refuse monotonous, boring dishes, but willingly agree to new types of food. Experiment, select new products and dishes (in accordance with your age, of course).
Pay attention to the presentation of dishes. A plate of porridge decorated with berries or jam in the shape of a smiling face, cutlets with “eyes” and a “tail” made from pieces of boiled vegetables and herbs, a figuratively laid out side dish and other decorations sharply increase the child’s interest in food.
If possible, feed your baby at the same time as other children - friends, cousins or siblings. As you know, kids eat much better with company.
Avoid snacking, especially buns and sweets between meals - they create a false sense of fullness.
Before meals, it is good to give sweet and sour fruits and berries (cherries, apples), which stimulate the secretion of gastric juice and increase appetite. In addition, salted fish (herring, mackerel), pickled vegetables, and salads from fresh vegetables have a juice-containing effect.
Enriching the diet with fermented milk products, pre- and probiotics, since underweight children often have problems with stool and intestinal dysbiosis.
Additionally, after a year, you can use special formulas for children with low weight - “Pediashur”, “Clinutren Junior”, “Peptamen Junior” - these are high-calorie, protein-enriched mixtures with a rather pleasant taste.

Please note that all of the above recommendations are intended for relatively healthy children who have a moderate decrease in body weight compared to the age norm. In the case of severe retardation in physical development and severe weight loss, it is necessary, after identifying the causes of malnutrition, to carry out full treatment, including the prescription of medications. And therapeutic nutrition for children with severe malnutrition is built only under the constant supervision of a pediatrician, with a daily calculation of the daily calorie intake and determination of the need for basic nutritional components.

Lack or excess weight in the first year of life becomes the subject of close attention of the pediatrician. It is not for nothing that the child is weighed by a doctor every month or every week after birth. This is necessary to determine the correct development and condition of the baby.

It is generally accepted that excess weight is always bad; obesity is always given more attention. However, being underweight or poor weight gain can have an even worse impact on a child’s development and health than being overweight.

Dangers

Lack of weight is fraught with dangerous diseases for the child, retarded growth and development. After birth, the baby begins to rapidly grow and develop the body as a whole. Therefore, it is so important to monitor weight, as well as how the child eats: good or bad, a lot or a little. If the body does not receive enough energy sources, it begins to use up its own reserves of fat or glycogen. This leads to harmful consequences.

If a child gains little weight, he becomes prone to:

to frequent ARVI and colds;
to dysbacteriosis;
to anemia;
to rickets;
to many other dangerous diseases.

A child who eats and drinks only breast milk reacts particularly acutely to a lack of minerals, nutrients, and vitamins. Due to lack of weight, a child may have neuropsychic abnormalities; vital organs, hearing, vision, and the musculoskeletal system may not develop properly.

Methods for determining lack of mass

Low weight is not always evidence of malnutrition in a child. Sometimes the reason for this may be the baby’s constitution caused by heredity. That is, if his mother or father, grandmother or grandfather were or are underweight. This is also possible because the child is not eating enough. Less often there are discrepancies with real indicators and tabulated ones, those presented in textbooks.

Weighing a child alone is not enough to detect malnutrition. Additionally, the following procedures must be applied:

inspection;
growth fixation;
lab tests;
survey of parents, including questions about what the child eats.

Weight standards and other indicators

In infants, as a rule, not only body weight is assessed, but also its monthly increase. A child who was of normal weight at birth should normally gain 600 g or from 500 to 1000 g during the first 6 months of life. And then - on average 300 g.

Normal weight is inextricably linked with height. The combination of these values will give accurate information about whether your baby is getting enough nutrients.

Examination of the child and interview of parents

When interviewing parents, the pediatrician will find out how the child previously gained weight and whether he or she has any chronic diseases. Have you had a recent acute respiratory viral infection or cold? The doctor asks what kind of appetite the baby has and what he eats, about the child’s behavioral characteristics and whether he sleeps a lot or little.

Children with malnutrition are distinguished by the absence of a fat layer, their folds and cheeks disappear, and the child looks very thin. The skin of a sick baby is dry, flaky, and the turgor is reduced. When pressed, the skin does not return to its original position so quickly. Symptoms of nervous system dysfunction may also occur. The baby does not hold his head up at all or poorly, does not sit down, does not eat, and so on.

Laboratory research data will help the doctor clarify the picture and make an accurate diagnosis. For this purpose, a general blood test is used. It reveals signs of anemia, a decrease in the level of lymphocytes and red blood cells.

Main sources of the problem

The main reason for underweight in infants is a lack of mother's milk. In this case, pediatricians advise supplementing the child with artificial formula. However, you should not rush to transfer your baby to artificial feeding.

Causes of weight loss during breastfeeding can also be:

Chronic diseases.
Teething and associated loss of appetite.
Summer period, heat.
Taking certain medications.
Measurement error.

Nutritional and internal

The causes of underweight in breastfed children are conventionally divided into two groups – nutritional and internal. Nutritional reasons, or in other words - external, are associated with an incomplete supply of nutrients, as well as with the fact that the baby does not eat well. Internal ones talk about excessive consumption of these substances or their improper absorption.

Currently, it is believed that external causes are practically never encountered. After all, it is difficult to imagine that the reason that the baby is not gaining weight well could be parental negligence or deliberate underfeeding of the baby. However, sometimes there is a mother's inattention to how the baby eats.

It is imperative to accustom the child to a feeding schedule. After six months, be sure to introduce new foods into your diet. But it is also impossible to give children food that is not appropriate for their age. Their digestive system simply cannot digest many foods.

In addition to the nutritional cause described above, it is worth mentioning congenital anomalies, esophageal defects, regurgitation, and mental disorders. All these are physiological signs of underweight.

Internal reasons include:

Nutrient requirements are too high. This is due to the accelerated growth of the body and its need for additional energy, as well as diseases. A premature baby often has trouble gaining weight.
Impaired absorption of nutrients. This reason is associated with various diseases: lack of enzymes, allergies, chronic diseases of the digestive tract. The child may have intestinal malabsorption syndrome, etc.

Treatment for underweight

Only a pediatrician can make a diagnosis of hypotrophy based on observations and tests. Treatment is also carried out under his supervision.

With a mild degree of malnutrition, that is, with a deviation from the norm of no more than 20%, it is enough just to normalize the diet and introduce a feeding regimen, which is especially important for newborns. When breastfeeding, it is advisable to put the baby to the breast every three hours. In this case, the mother will have the required amount of milk.

It may be necessary to introduce artificial formula if the mother does not produce enough milk. In some cases, when the baby is not gaining weight well, the doctor prescribes enzymes, special mixtures, and vitamins that help and improve weight gain. It is important to eliminate all possible causes of malnutrition in a timely manner.

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After the baby is born, he begins to grow rapidly and in the first year of his life gains about 7 kilograms in weight. But these indicators are purely individual for each child and primarily depend on the characteristics of the body. Then what should be the normal weight of a newborn?

Based on some statistical data, experts have long deduced the basic patterns that the baby should comply to, to a lesser or greater extent.

How much can a newborn baby weigh?

On average, the weight of a baby born at term can range from 2,600 to 4,500 grams. Only in the first days the newborn loses about 10% of its original body weight. He begins to adapt to the environment, loses a lot of fluid, and the feeding process is just getting established. The mother begins to produce milk only on the 3rd day after birth; before this time, a small amount of colostrum is produced. If the child’s health is in perfect order and he receives adequate nutrition, then starting from the 4-5th day, his weight increases by 20 grams daily.

Table of weight gain and height for children under 1 year

This table contains information about the norm for height and weight gain in children in the first year of their life. But, despite this, we must not forget that all newborns are different and the values presented may differ from the actual weight and height of your child.

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The table is not the only way to determine the norm and weight of a newborn. In addition to it, there is another calculation formula. According to it, during the first 5 months the baby gains an average of 800 grams, and from 6 months - 400 grams monthly. For the first 3 months, the child’s height increases by 3 cm, in subsequent months by 2.5 cm, then by 1.5 cm and 1 cm per quarter. Thanks to this formula, you can more accurately find out how much weight the baby has gained and how much his height has increased, and whether this corresponds to the norm.

But relying on these indicators, as noted above, is not completely recommended, since all children have different appetites, and accordingly, each eats differently.

Reasons for slow baby growth

Most young mothers mistakenly believe that normal weight gain in a newborn is only evidence of good nutrition. But this is completely wrong! So what then determines a child’s weight gain in the first year of his life?

In the first few days after birth, almost all children lose 8-10% of their body weight, which is due to birth stress and adaptation to the world around them.

Throughout this time, the newborn eats only colostrum, which is produced in small quantities, which has a bad effect on the child’s weight. After discharge from the hospital, the lost mass begins to gradually recover. But in the case of a difficult birth, stress in a newborn can last up to 4 weeks, and therefore the baby will gain weight much more slowly.

Therefore, the rate of weight gain must be assessed not over a few days, but over a whole month. We must not forget that the body weight of a newborn begins to increase only 7-10 days after its birth.

According to the norm, over the next three weeks the child should gain about 400 grams. Now we need to observe how much he recovers in the 5th week of his life - if the weight gain is more than 150-200 grams, then this is an excellent indicator.

So how can you determine how much weight your newborn is gaining each week? There is nothing complicated about this: weigh him on the same day, at the same time, on the same scales and in the same clothes, every week.

For example, you weighed your baby on Wednesday at 13:00. Therefore, the next weigh-in should take place 7 days later at the same time - 13 o'clock in the afternoon. The difference in these indicators will be your weekly weight gain.

How to determine how much milk your baby eats and whether it is enough?

This is very easy to do. The norm for a one-week-old baby to urinate 12 times or more per day. But this indicator cannot be considered accurate, since their number may increase due to the fact that the newborn was given water very often. At the same time, he will recover poorly due to lack of nutrients.
Weight loss can also occur due to the fact that the newborn does not suckle properly and does not receive the fatty milk necessary for nutrition.
Weight gain rates may decrease due to the use of bottles and pacifiers. If a child eats milk less than 12 times a day, and the duration of sucking is limited, then this can also have a bad effect on the child’s body weight.
There is no need to change breasts very often during the feeding process.

After eliminating such feeding errors, the baby’s weight will begin to recover without additional feeding.

Why might my milk supply decrease?

Weight loss in a newborn may occur due to lack of breast milk. What could affect this?

Taking birth control pills. If they really have a negative impact on your milk, then you should stop using them and choose another method of contraception. After all, now there are a huge number of ways to protect against unwanted conception.
Onset of pregnancy.
Loss of milk could also occur due to the fact that a lot of time passed between feedings. Due to the fact that the young mother tried to teach her child to sleep at night, which is fundamentally wrong. It is necessary to feed the baby when he is really hungry or begins to intensively suck his fist.
Emotional shock.
Your milk supply may decrease due to frequent bottle use.
A disease that occurs at elevated temperatures.
Medicines: pseudoephedrine, antihistamines.

Why does my baby gain weight too quickly?

The table of norms for weight gain in a newborn is designed to a greater extent for children on artificial nutrition. After all, it is much easier to predict how much a child will gain or lose in this case. If he is breastfed and is gaining weight very quickly, then the mother should reconsider her diet.
Rapid weight gain may indicate the presence of a disease.
During the first months of his life, the baby can recover rapidly, but then everything returns to normal, and weight is gained gradually.

As you can see, everything is done individually, and it is simply impossible to determine exactly how much weight a particular baby should gain. But, if your child is always in a good mood and full of health, and at the same time does not have a special appetite, then this is not a reason for concern! But, if he is whiny and does not sleep at night, while eating practically nothing, then there is a reason to urgently consult a doctor!