That said, hearing the term “failure to thrive” can be jarring. My baby boy was just a few days old when I learned there may be a problem, and I was scared, for his health and well-being.

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Failure to thrive is a condition characterized by low growth markers in height, weight and head circumference, along with signs that the child is behind developmentally as compared to other ...

Before long, adult “failure to thrive” had become an official diagnosis and a research priority for the Institute of Medicine. Like a virus jumping from species to species, it had made the ...

My newborn at two days old was labeled "at risk of failure to thrive" after losing 12% of his birth weight. The stress following a C-section was already overwhelming, and this diagnosis added another ...

My cousin Kasey took the baby home from the Child Crisis Arizona nursery with a pink-and-blue blanket, a folder of medical records and a pamphlet titled, “How to Grieve the Loss of a Child ...

There is no concrete definition for failure to thrive, simply because it isn’t a disorder or disease. Rather, it is when a child is undernourished and doesn’t meet expected standards ...

Failure to thrive is a known cause of infant mortality when a baby is not cuddled, caressed, and cherished. By many indicators, our children are failing to thrive. Suicide, gun violence, anxiety ...

I heard “failure to thrive” as “failure to feed.” My life became an endless cycle of chopping, sifting and mixing in the service of keeping my tiny daughter from disappearing.