Failure to Thrive
Research Paper
On Infant Bonding Disorders
The first few years of life are a time when most children gain weight and grow much more rapidly than they will later on. Sometimes, however, babies and children don't meet the expected standards of growth. Although most of these children are merely following a variation of the normal patterns and are not at risk, some children are actually considered to have "failure to thrive".
This diagnosis is a general consequence of many possible causes. Every case, however, has one thing in common. That is the failure to gain weight as expected, which is usually accompanied by poor height growth as well. The process of diagnosing and treating a child who fails to thrive is focusing on identifying an underlying problem. Failure to thrive has been recognized for more than a century, but it does not have a specific definition, partly because it describes a condition, not a specific disease. The condition involves children who......
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