What Causes Difficulty In Gaining Weight In An Infant?

Posted on Wed, 4 May 2016

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Question : Hi Doc,
I am a mother of a 8 month old baby girl, her weight when she completed 6 months is 7 KG, and now her weight is 7.5 kg after 2 months, she was exclusively breastfed for complete six months and after that I started giving her solid food like fruits and vegetable purees, mashed dal rice and banana and breast milk all the time I am at home, whenever she needs. she eats very little quantity like 30-40 ml at a time. She is not gaining weight properly, what should I do?

Answered by Dr. Deepak Patel (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
Multivitamin drops and vitamin d drops

Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Welcome to this forum.
Can understand your concerns.

Weight of child at 1 year of age is around 9.5 kg, at 8 months weight should be around 8 kg.

At 7 months of age, there is eruption of teeth and length increases as a result the weight gain is slow as compared to before 6 month of age.

I suggest you to give vitamin d drops, and multivitamin drops till 1 year of age.

Diet should be modified like give full cream milk, one egg daily, add little butter in every meal. Give mashed banana, mashed apple, oats, ceralac.

I hope this will help you.
Wishing your child good health.
Take care.

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