My Tiny Princess

Rien Rae Armstrong is a little girl. It's obvious to anybody who looks at her and knows how old she is. At almost 8 months old she weighs 13 lbs and is 22.25 inches long. At Rien's 6th month appointment instead of making progress she had lost weight and gotten slightly shorter. So he asked that we come back at 7 months and we did. Her length didn't change and she gained a few ounces. He referred us to a pediatric gastroenterologist. We went on Wednesday and I expected to him to blow it off and say some kids are just small. But...that was not the case. Turns out Rien is in the 3% for weight and 2% for height. He is more concerned with her height than her weight. He had me take a stool stample of Rie's to the lab and scheduled her an upper GI for Thursday, April 15th. I don't know if any of you have ever had to see an upper GI done on an infant but I asked the process and it sounds like utter hell. She won't remember it but I know years from now she'll ask for a $60 dress when I'm trying to get her the $30 dress and I will think of that moment and by her the more expensive one. In additional to being small, she can't crawl and can't sit up unsupported. Her brother was terrorizing my home by Christmas (5.5 months old). At almost 8 months old those things are the norm. He said due to her not growing her muscles aren't growing therfore for while mentally she can, physically she can't. Her muscles are too weak. Right now he is having me up my protein so my breastmilk can help her and during the weekdays while she is in childcare her formula is supposed to have a higher powder to water ratio. He hopes that pushing calories will make all the difference. We will see.

Her possible diagnosis are Failure to Thrive and Short Stature. The way the doctor wrote it....FTT, short stature? So he isn't sure yet.