http://www.blisstree.com/babylune/baby-put-on-diet/ Adventures in post-partum recovery. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:58:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.blisstree.com/babylune/baby-put-on-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-15261 Minnie Thu, 07 May 2009 15:55:24 +0000 http://www.blisstree.com/babylune/?p=3277#comment-15261 A high fat high cal diet will most likely not work for her if her reflux isn't completely under control. The high cal/fat diet will actually make her reflux worse, and cause her to have more of a delay in emptying the contents from her stomach. More food/cals/fat = more reflux, and in turn more weight loss, or lack of weight gain. Lot's of babies with GERD are advised to go on a diet like this, but it's usually not successful at all. If her underlying problem (GERD or possibly something causing her GERD and/or her other medical problems) aren't properly treated, she will continue to to be bellow the charts and not grow properly, regardless what her diet consists of. A high fat high cal diet will most likely not work for her if her reflux isn’t completely under control. The high cal/fat diet will actually make her reflux worse, and cause her to have more of a delay in emptying the contents from her stomach. More food/cals/fat = more reflux, and in turn more weight loss, or lack of weight gain.
Lot’s of babies with GERD are advised to go on a diet like this, but it’s usually not successful at all. If her underlying problem (GERD or possibly something causing her GERD and/or her other medical problems) aren’t properly treated, she will continue to to be bellow the charts and not grow properly, regardless what her diet consists of.

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