What would u do?

Question

So my daughter just turn 2 a few weeks ago and she had her 2 year old check up and her doctor is concerned about her weight but shes a healthy weight for her height she is small for her age but her BMI is 15.5 which is healthy, she eats good and she runs and plays like a normal 2 year old but there still "concerned" I participate in the WIC program and she had her 2 year old check up there and the nurse said she was fine and healthy that she is just small for her age. I've been considering switching doctors bc they've been concerned for a while about her weight and some of the doctors there have been so rude to me about it and now they're considering giving her PediaSure which I'm completely against bc she's perfectly healthy and I feel like there's no reason to give her something like that if she's healthy, but I am curious on how some of u guys would handle the situation and what would u do

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I would get a second opinion for sure. I was always a small child, but perfectly healthy and a doctor tried to tell my mom that I must have some sort of rare anorexic type eating disorder, at the age of like 4 or 5 🙄
Thankfully she didn't listen. Some kids are just smaller. If you're thinking you want to try a new doctor, then try a new doctor. Underfed kids usually show more symptoms than just being small as well. So if your child is running around and acting like a normal 2 year old, then they're more than likely just fine.

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Get a second opinion. My son’s doctor was concerned about his weight for a bit and she referred him to a nutrition doctor who knows more than she does about that specific stuff. The nutrition doctor told us he’s small but perfectly healthy, which we knew, but it made his primary doctor feel better that she wasn’t missing anything.

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Definitely get a second opinion. I took my daughter in and saw a dr we had never seen before and he insisted my daughter had cystic fibrosis. Basically freaked us out for no reason because neither my husband nor I carry it. The nurse there treated me like crap because I argued back and switched to another doctor. She’s still being monitored closely but my husband and I are both small people so our new doctor said that has a lot to do with it. Our son is small for his age too but they’re both super healthy and not sickly. My kids love pediasure though so they’d be pumped if the doctor said they needed it! 😂

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Get a second opinion. There’s nothing wrong with disagreeing with your doctor but before you don’t do something you should get a second opinion, honestly you know your baby best and you know what’s best for them! 😀

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