Podcasts about failure to thrive

We are recording Season 3 of the Resilient Birth podcast. Meanwhile we have selected our favorite episodes for you. In this episode Justine and Sarah explore the complexities of breastfeeding journeys. How do we support people navigating challenging emotional experiences while feeding their baby? Listen as Justine shares her story of breastfeeding challenges and what it was like to hear the words "Failure to Thrive." On the Resilient Birth podcast, Justine and Sarah explore the impact of trauma in the perinatal period. Through an inspirational quote that drives the weekly content, Justine and Sarah explore various trauma areas with vulnerability and compassion that support birthing people and birth professionals. Each week, listeners leave with takeaways to utilize in their lives and/or clients. Justine and Sarah hold the stories they share with honor and respect with the hope to impart knowledge, increase understanding, and bear witness to this challenging topic. Sarah is a licensed mental health counselor, educator, and mom of three. She walks with a story of trauma from before and as a result of her perinatal experience. Justine supports survivors of trauma through perinatal coaching and childbirth education. As well as being a mother of three, she holds a Ph.D. on representations of consent and sexual violence. Learn more about our course called Trauma Informed Fundamentals here: https://resilient-birth.mykajabi.com/traumainformedfundamentals

In this episode of the Milk Minute, we break down your baby's growth chart and what those numbers and percentiles really mean. Learn how to interpret and understand what's "normal" for breastfed babies. Whether you're a parent, provider, or lactation specialist, we'll help you feel confident in choosing the right intervention when needed. Tune in for a reassuring look at your baby's growth journey!Work With Us!Book a Lactation Consult with Heather! Click HERE for the deets.Book a Lactation Consult with Maureen! Click HERE to get started.THANK YOU TO THIS EPISODE'S SPONSOR:Brownie House: Experience pure joy with Brownie House—where every gourmet brownie is “happiness baked from scratch”!Listener question: What do you do when you have an open crater on your nipple?Mentioned in this Episode:Peditools.org for help with measuring baby's arm circumferencePrefer to read the transcript? Click Here Support the showCheck out Milk Minute Podcast's website here!Become a VIP Click here to get exclusive access and more!Send us an e-mail! MilkMinutePodcast@gmail.comFacebook | Instagram | TikTok

Are you a grandparent raising grandchildren and concerned about their health and diet? Struggling to navigate the complex relationship between food, emotional stress, and obesity in children? Do you wish you had a resource to guide you through fostering healthy eating habits amidst a turbulent past?I'm Laura Brazan, and on this episode of 'Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Nurturing Through Adversity,' we delve deep into the crucial topic, "What Everyone Ought to Know About Obesity." Join me and our insightful guest, Jason Stanley, an obesity researcher, as we unravel the sobering connection between childhood trauma and obesity. For more information about Jason Stanley, please visit https://nevergaintheweightback.com/With an empathetic lens, we explore groundbreaking research and practical strategies to cultivate a healthy diet, create positive mealtime environments, and manage emotional eating. Listen in to discover how the carnivore and ketogenic diets fit into the bigger picture, understand the latest techniques like havening and EMDR for addressing trauma, and learn to foster healthy eating habits without stress or compulsion.Whether you're dealing with a picky eater or worried about a grandchild's weight, this episode is packed with expert advice and real-life success stories. Join our community, strengthen your resolve, and find hope amidst adversity. Let's navigate this journey together and reshape a healthier future for you and your grandchildren.Tune in and discover the strength in collective wisdom and support—because you are not alone.Send us a textThank you for tuning into today's episode. It's been a journey of shared stories, insights, and invaluable advice from the heart of a community that knows the beauty and challenges of raising grandchildren. Your presence and engagement mean the world to us and to grandparents everywhere stepping up in ways they never imagined. Remember, you're not alone on this journey. For more resources, support, and stories, visit our website and follow us on our social media channels. If today's episode moved you, consider sharing it with someone who might find comfort and connection in our shared experiences. We look forward to bringing more stories and expert advice your way next week. Until then, take care of yourselves and each other.Liked this episode? Share it and tag us on Facebook @GrandparentsRaisingGrandchilden Love the show? Leave a review and let us know! CONNECT WITH US: Website | Facebook

Are you feeling stuck, afraid, or unsure about launching into your ministry? You're not alone! In this interactive discussion, we will explore the common barriers that hinder us from embracing our calling, including fear of rejection, self-doubt, and the weight of responsibility. Don't let fear hold you back any longer! This is your opportunity to ignite your passion for ministry and take that bold step forward. Whether you're a seasoned leader or just starting out, this session will equip you to launch with purpose and confidence. To join the waitlist for our future webinar and group coaching program, download my free guide 10 Ways to Set Healthy Boundaries God's Way as a Christian Leader. https://www.empoweredpurposeacademy.c...

#442: Is my baby eating enough and what if they start falling off their growth curve? Dietitian Kat Mikelaites talks about failure to thrive, growth faltering and helping babies get enough nutrition, iron and energy to thrive. Listen to this episode to learn: What parents accidentally do to compromise growth and how you can avoid this stress How to interpret a growth chart…and what to do if your baby falls off their growth path Why Kat uses the term Failure to Thrive vs. Growth Faltering in her program and content Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/442 Links from this episode: Follow Kat on Instagram @failure.to.thrive.dietitian Check out Kat's resources online Other Episodes Related to this Topic Episode 266 - Infant Weight Loss: What to Do When the Doctor Says Your Baby Isn't Gaining Weight with Rosan Meyer, PhD, RD  Episode 73 - HELP! My Baby Has NO Interest in Food at First Episode 110 - Catch-Up Weight: Why Starting Solids Early Will Not Help Your Baby Gain Weight with Rosan Meyer, PhD, RD

#442: Is my baby eating enough and what if they start falling off their growth curve? Dietitian Kat Mikelaites talks about failure to thrive, growth faltering and helping babies get enough nutrition, iron and energy to thrive. Listen to this episode to learn: What parents accidentally do to compromise growth and how you can avoid this stress How to interpret a growth chart…and what to do if your baby falls off their growth path Why Kat uses the term Failure to Thrive vs. Growth Faltering in her program and content Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/442 Links from this episode: Follow Kat on Instagram @failure.to.thrive.dietitian Check out Kat's resources online Other Episodes Related to this Topic Episode 266 - Infant Weight Loss: What to Do When the Doctor Says Your Baby Isn't Gaining Weight with Rosan Meyer, PhD, RD  Episode 73 - HELP! My Baby Has NO Interest in Food at First Episode 110 - Catch-Up Weight: Why Starting Solids Early Will Not Help Your Baby Gain Weight with Rosan Meyer, PhD, RD

In this episode Justine and Sarah explore the complexities of breastfeeding journeys. How do we support people navigating challenging emotional experiences while feeding their baby? Listen as Justine shares her story of breastfeeding challenges and what it was like to hear the words "Failure to Thrive." On the Resilient Birth podcast, Justine and Sarah explore the impact of trauma in the perinatal period. Through an inspirational quote that drives the weekly content, Justine and Sarah explore various trauma areas with vulnerability and compassion that support birthing people and birth professionals. Each week, listeners leave with takeaways to utilize in their lives and/or clients. Justine and Sarah hold the stories they share with honor and respect with the hope to impart knowledge, increase understanding, and bear witness to this challenging topic. Sarah is a licensed mental health counselor, educator, and mom of three. She walks with a story of trauma from before and as a result of her perinatal experience. Justine supports survivors of trauma through perinatal coaching and childbirth education. As well as being a mother of three, she holds a Ph.D. on representations of consent and sexual violence. Learn more about our course called Trauma Informed Fundamentals here: https://resilient-birth.mykajabi.com/traumainformedfundamentals

In the heart of the Health Sciences Building, Dr. Amanda Hall studies a tray of organoids under a microscope. “They do need a lot of attention and a lot of feeding,” she said, pointing to dot-like points in a gel solution.  The pediatric surgeon and assistant professor of pediatric general surgery will use those dots to identify factors that help infants overcome short gut syndrome. The rare condition affects roughly 24 in every 100,000 babies born in Canada, presenting a profound challenge for infants born with insufficient intestinal length or compromised absorptive capacity. “It's a very, very long, difficult road,” said Hall. “Often they're stuck in hospital and there's no progress happening, so definitely [families] want another option.”   Hall's interest in medicine dates back to the late 1990s in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, and a family TV with three channels. In elementary school, she remembered faithfully recording the reality show Life's Little Miracles, where a camera crew followed patients at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. “They'd actually go into the operating room and film the surgeries, which was amazing,” she said. “That's what I wanted to do.”   After she was accepted to the University of Saskatchewan's College of Medicine, Hall met Dr. Grant Miller and Dr. Gordon Zello during her second year of residency. To become a pediatric surgeon, she had to earn her master's degree, and Miller took the graduate student under his wing, focusing on parenteral nutrition-associated liver disease in infants. “I just loved research,” said Hall. “I loved the struggle, the unending nights of work, then finally that amazing feeling when you see numbers that make sense.” It was the beginning of Hall's deep-dive into the intricacies of the human gut.   Right now, half of infants diagnosed with short gut syndrome get better on their own, with the help of intravenous nutrition. A few undergo complex bowel transplants, but close to 38 per cent succumb to the disease. “They would have what we call failure to thrive,” said Hall. “They don't gain weight, they have uncontrollable diarrhea, they might have vomiting.” In this episode, Hall takes us inside her lab to meet her miniature, spherical organs, cultivated from stem cells, mimicking the intricate structure of the human intestine. “Definitely you become attached to them. They require a lot of work, a lot of time, and a lot of expense,” Hall said. Hall is exploring the potential benefits of breast milk and probiotics in encouraging growth inside these mini intestines. From there, she hopes to identify specific components that could accelerate the recovery of infants suffering from short gut syndrome. “We know that breast milk …. helps with our immune function, helps with the actual integrity of the bowel. I'm curious to know does it actually help the bowel grow faster?”   For families grappling with the challenges of short gut syndrome, Hall's work offers a beacon of hope. “The idea of finding a universal cure is not very realistic,” said Hall. “But if we can start identifying different factors to help and improve the process, that'll be very important.” She says a multitude of factors affect short gut syndrome, and some drugs are already in development. “There's definitely hope on the horizon,” she said.

Date: Sunday October 1st, 2023 'Speaker: Josh LawrenceScripture: Matthew 16Sermon Title: Failure to ThriveCheck us out on our website: www.bathnewcity.church

Dr. Morgan speaks on the topic of Failure to Thrive 

Geriatric Failure to Thrive (GFFT) is a condition that many Dietitian's have never heard of, yet it is far more common than we think.Explore in this episode the chronic condition, and how to solve it!Links mentioned in the episode:https://longtermcarerd.com/product/long-term-care-dietitians-reference-guide/https://longtermcarerd.com/failure-to-thrive/https://longtermcarerd.com/ebooks/

Episode 406... The Bros are live on a quick trip to Reno! Just riffing along to a bunch of 2023 rippers and some random fast stuff as usual. No crazy themes from the Mad Ax, we talk nonsense, and we make BGP history by not playing Guttermouth for the first time ever (sigh). Oh well... enjoy (GutterMark voice)!Listen to Episode 406:On ARCHIVE. Or play it below: (scroll for set list)Listen to The Brothers Grim Punkcast:ARCHIVE.Org - hear/download past episodesPUNK ROCK DEMONSTRATION - Wednesdays 7 p.m. PSTRIPPER RADIO - Fridays & Saturdays 7 p.m. PSTApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsContact Brothers Grim Punk:brothersgrimpunk@gmail.com - In a punk band? Send us your music! Want us to make you a punk song? Email us some lyrics!@Punkbot138 on Instagram@BrosGrimPunk on XMore Punk Music:Bandcamp - Follow us and download our albums: Brothers Grim Punk, Fight Music, and more!YouTube - tons of punk playlists, from Anarchy to Violence!The Punker's saga...Chile Sacrilegious 1:18 Deadache Colombia tour split with Skrot MS Hardcore Devotion 1:11 Borrowed Man Borrowed Man London Wind Your Neck 0:51 Forkbomb Draining Life Brazil The Hills Are Dead Recs Intergalatic Carnage Begins 1:10 Alien's Purger The Korotian's Saga Reno Nickel (bkgrd) 3:07 The Smugglers Selling The Sizzle! MS Psychic Hand Tapes Americaneyes 0:55 Father Thing Father Thing Boston Reality's Eyes 1:35 FRAUD March of Progress EP Buffalo It's a Coup 1:39 K-HOLE K-HOLE Chicago Time Loop 1:19 War Effort Path To Glory Dirt Bag Distro Self Absorbed 1:14 Failure To Thrive Demo No Time Recs D.N.R. 0:42 Slammed Back Demo '23 [NTR 359] Netherlands Burning Longing 2:09 Youth Deprivation Burning Longing Chicago Sisyphus Reborn 1:40 Matter of Fact DEMO Mr. Telephone Man (bkgrd) 3:56 New Edition Remastered Nuclear Chaos 1:12 Disgor Neverending Warcry The Way It Is 2:21 A Global Threat Until We Die_GMM Recs Delusions 1:51 Raw Nerves Burnt Skin  Lost All Hope 1:36 Feral State Split W Tokyo Lungs Neutron Deceit 1:26 Ratface Ratface demo 2010 The Ultimate High 1:06 1753 RESIN - The Ultimate High SUDDEN DEATH 1:14 Poison Church THE DARK SIDE OF THE FULL MOON demo We Dare Speak (bkgrd) 5:42 Discharge Grave New World Aim To Please 1:14 7 Seconds The Crew Hate & War 2:05 The Clash The Clash Dead Woman 1:14 Nausea Records Raw Noise - "A Holocaust In Your Home 1984 Demo" 12" (NR002) Martinez THROAT RIP-CHAINED DEMO FINAL 1:33 Throat Rip Demo Sabotage (BEASTIE BOYS) 2:17 Slund Quarantined LETHARGY 0:57 TOKYO LUNGS Soul Music LP_Kibou Rec No Way Out 1:54 Union 13 Why Are We Destroying Ourselves? You're Ugly 0:55 Ramonescore Radio & Wellsville Records Pantzig - Pick Your King RCRR 5 Shots Of Whiskey (bkgrd) 4:20 Hank Williams III  Lovesick, Broke & Driftin' RI Comeback of the Boot 1:55 Klaxon Comeback of the Boot/Slain in the USA

54 years ago when Canadian, Lisa Bentley was born, enzymes weren't even in pill form. Diagnosed at age 20, Lisa was already in the midst of figuring out her life as a teacher and later, a world famous triathlete. She had 11 IRONMAN victories on several continents with at least one IRONMAN victory each year from 2000 to 2007. She is an author, coach, wife, and trainer. She talks about how mental strength and positive talk are everything, and it's important to remember who you are and why you're doing what you do.She brings us so much wisdom in this podcast.  She was competing in one worldwide event and she was very sick.  She reminded herself that she may not win, but that she would do her best for the CF community.  She took antibiotics and powered through.You will walk away from this podcast with a plan of positivity for your life.  Thanks to Beth Vanstone for producing this podcast.The Bonnell Foundation website: https://thebonnellfoundation.orgBonnell Foundation email: thebonnellfoundation@gmail.comTo read more about Lisa: https://www.lisabentley.com/an-unlikely-champion/Thanks to our sponsors:Vertex:  https://www.vrtx.comGenentech: https://www.gene.comViatris: https://www.viatris.com/en

In this session, I'm back after a lil hiatus and we are talking Dating Yourself. Plus my fake heart attack, Caesar salads, and the launch of my new website. we explore the importance of dating yourself and why it's essential for your personal growth and happiness. I talk about the ways I have dated myself and learned to stop abandoning myself because of what I thought would make other people happy. We talk filling your own cup first. I share seven practical tips on how to date yourself, including self-care practices, setting boundaries, and discovering new hobbies.  My new site: www.donnaguerreros.com Leave a Review Please & Support this podcast and grab your own pedometer or personal alarmee with 20% off at 3DActive.com and use code DONNA20 Manifesting Guide : https://thedonas.shop/products/manifesting-book Vision Board Workshop: https://thedonas.shop/products/visioning-a-new-year-a-vision-board-workshop Yearly Planner / Calendar & Lunar Guide : https://thedonas.shop/products/year-of-self   Want to download the Self Care Hard Journal: you can do that here

As a young child, Kyle Campbell was diagnosed with an inoperable brain stem tumor, which caused symptoms from difficulty speaking and swallowing to nausea and general ill health. While radiation therapy in his teens alleviated some of Kyle's symptoms, effects of the tumor (and side effects of his treatments) persist to this day. Now a husband, father of three, and author, Kyle is living a full, meaningful life. Through his difficulties, Kyle has developed a deep trust in God and has learned to live on purpose with faith, focus, and flexibility.Get your copy of Kyle's book: Beyond Belief: How Living with a Brain Stem Tumor Brought Faith and Purpose to LifeKyle Campbell is a Christian, a preacher, a poet, a philosopher, a professor, and an advocate… but some of his favorite identities are husband and father. He has a BA in Philosophy from Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, and an MA in Rehabilitation Counseling from California State University, Fresno. Kyle currently holds a position serving students in higher education. KEY QUESTIONS:Have you ever asked, “Why me?!”?How do you define your identity?How can you find purpose and hope when suffering seems endless?KEY SCRIPTURES:“I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” -Ecclesiastes 3:10–11“As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?' ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned,' said Jesus, ‘but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.'” John 9:1–5 Connect with Kyle on his website and LinkedIn. Watch his new video. ----Find more encouragement on Joni Eareckson Tada's Sharing Hope podcast  and daily devotional.Follow Joni and Friends on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.Your support  makes this podcast possible!Joni and Friends envisions a world where every person with a disability finds hope, dignity, and their place in the body of Christ. Founded by  Joni Eareckson Tada, we provide Christ-centered care through  Joni's House, Wheels for the World, and Retreats and Getaways, and offer disability ministry training.

Megan and Deedra spend some time processing what life is like post 40, after learning about IFS, and gaining new levels of healing. As they talk about their own journey with parts of themselves, they realize that there is a fine line between resignation and contentment, and sometimes parts that are silent are really failing to thrive. Notes: The song Deedra mentioned is on YouTube. You can find all the authors we discussed (Fr. Richard Rohr, Dr. Hilary McBride, and Dr. Curt Thompson) on our Resources page. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dauntless-grace-exchange/message

Welcome to the PICKLE JAR PODCAST. Amy's shares with us the struggles with her health that started the moment she was born and she was considered failure to thrive. She was never 'well' in her childhood and eventually around the age of twelve was diagnosed with NON CLASSICAL CAH (Congential Adrenal Hyperplasia). The rarity of the condition and considering several other family members had CLASSIC CAH, doctors dismissed earlier diagnosis probability. From the advice of her medical team in her early 20's, Amy had an adrenalectomy in hopes it would help her conceive her own child. Her struggles with her health now amplified now dealing with full adrenal insufficiency. She was now confronted with continuous adrenal crisis from poorly managed treatment on her adrenal insufficiency from her health care team. After the heart breaking loss of her Day when she was 33, Amy came to the realization that the end of her life was near. Doctors provided no hope, and she was physically and emotional exhausted. Death seemed inevitable so she venture to California with her mom for one last walk on the beach. While in California, a major adrenal crisis nearly cost her life. Amy shares the very personal and moving experience that brought her back from the edges of death and gave her back her strength to fight. 6 years later, Amy had overcome numerous obstacles mentally and physically. She has regained her strength physically and emotionally. Her quality of life has completely changed and she is living life to the fullest. Amy surrounded herself with a medical team that listens and fights for her quality of life, educated herself and took it all on with a positive attitude. A inspirational story that will renew your hope in regaining your quality of life! Never give up! Check out Jill's YouTube channel "CHRONICALLY FIT CANADA" THE PICKLE JAR Podcast is running on love and determination. If you would like to make a contribution to cover costs it would be greatly appreciated.     https://gofund.me/155401bb If you would like to share your journey on THE PICKLE JAR please email me at thepicklejar@rogers.com DISCLAIMER: The information from THE PICKLE JAR represents the experiences of the host Jill Battle and the individual experiences of each guest.  No information is intended to provide or replace the medical advice of a medical professional.  The host or guests are not liable for any negative consequences from any treatment, action, application or preparation, to any person following the information from the podcast.

When you think about it, murder is the ultimate form of gatekeeping. Intro Music: Baby Gopal- Lost Generation Submit music to demolistenpodcast@gmail.com. Become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/demolistenpodcast. Leave us a message at (260)222-8341 Queue: Chained To The Bottom Of The Ocean, The Goodbye Race, The Path, Immortal Death, Failure To Thrive, Predation, Scarab, Lil Texas, Bootkrieg, Circle None https://chainedtothebottomoftheocean.bandcamp.com/album/obsession-destruction https://thegoodbyerace.bandcamp.com/album/theyd-sell-the-sky-if-they-could https://thepathvt.bandcamp.com/album/dies-screaming https://advaitarecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-nekromance https://failuretothrive.bandcamp.com/album/demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-onMFFu4_s https://rebirthrecordsphl.bandcamp.com/album/scarab-demo  

Tune in as we get personal and share our family's struggles with the public education system, thoughts on how the current system often fails the special needs community, and how we plan to tackle it. This episode is sponsored by The Exceptional Learning Institute (E.L.I.), learn more about their customized academic programs for autistic children at exceptionalinstitute.org.

Your PIT ( Purpose In Trouble) has been identified and diagnosis is in. Your symptoms have been assessed and a prescription provided listen in as I walk you through strategies to strengthen, renew and restore your Purpose! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mechelle-m/message

This week, Pastor Dan and Pastor Joe discuss the food their kids love to hate, talk about the importance of God's Word in our lives, and delve deeper into this week's sermon entitled "Failure to Thrive."Check out our 2023 Bible Reading Plan here: cxn.church/2023bibleTo watch this week's sermon, check it out on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/cometoconnect or head over to cometoconnect.com/most-recent-sermon

Pastor Andrew kicks off 2023 with a message on the importance of God's word in the life of all believers.

How do great leaders use failure to thrive? Too many efforts with potential game-changing outcomes are short circuited by the fear of failing; people with huge ideas become paralyzed by “what ifs,” unable to see past the challenges of today. Get several ways to shift your perspective and use failure to thrive. Olakunle Soriyan, known by most as PK, author of A Love Affair With Failure: When Hitting Bottom Becomes A Launchpad To Success, paints "failure" and "failing" as two different realities and mindset. Failure is a destination, a windowless prison that does not exist unless you accept that it does. However, failing is a journey, a launchpad into new knowledge and new beginnings and the key to successful innovation and entrepreneurship. PK builds up emerging entrepreneurs be prepared for the inevitable challenges ahead and urges them to be resilient in pursuing their dreams, embracing the idea of failing not only as a prerequisite for achieving success, but also a victory in itself because it signifies having had the courage to take action.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What exactly is “Failure to Thrive”? How has one mother battled that diagnosis? What resources are available to help other families dealing with Failure to Thrive?Debi Lewis is the mom of two daughters – Ronni and Sammi. In 2005, Debi's second daughter's birth began what would be a nearly decade-long journey through the confusion and inefficiencies of modern pediatric specialty medicine. Initially trusting and slowly growing more frustrated, Debi learned quickly that even within the same hospital, silos had developed that kept her child from an accurate diagnosis and treatment plan. Through research and introspection, Debi began piecing together the mistakes and wrong turns that took her family from constant medical mystery into the final surgery that would change her daughter's life — and her own — for good.She is the author of Kitchen Medicine: How I Fed My Daughter out of Failure to Thrive and has written for outlets including The New York Times, Bon Appetit, Huffington Post, Romper, Wired, and more. You can learn more about her at http://www.debilewis.com and follow her on Twitter at @growthesunshine.Helpful Links:Debi's episode on 'And That's the #Truth' with Jenny and Dan MuscatellThe 'Heart to Heart with Anna' episode on feeding tubesDebi's Information:Debi's website Debi on TwitterPlease visit our Social Media and Podcast pages:Apple PodcastsFacebookInstagram MeWe TwitterYouTubeWebsiteIf you enjoy this program and would like to be a Patron, please check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/HeartToHeartNo Need to Explain with the Mental Health MamasParenting is hard. When you have a child who doesn't fit neatly into a box, it can be...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

In the natural, when we arent hungry it is life threatening. In Faith, it is just as bad Today we discuss the power of hunger.

In this week's episode we spotlight the fairy tale Hedemora chicken, discuss failure to thrive in chicks, and chat with UK breeder Kate Whyld about keeping ultra rare breed chickens and working on an MA in Poultry Science from Edinburgh University. We also share our recipe for fresh and delicious strawberry mousse, and provide some retail therapy from Chewy!Our sponsor, Grubbly Farms, is offering our listeners 25% off your purchase for first time buyers! That's a fantastic value! This offer does not apply to subscriptions and cannot be used with any other discounts. Click here for our affiliate link and use our code COFFEELADIES25 to get your discount.Chicken Luv Box -  use CWTCL50 for 50% off your first box!https://www.chickenluv.com/Hedemora Chicken - Greenfire Farmhttps://greenfirefarms.com/hedemora.htmlHedemora Chicken - Sugar Feather Farmhttps://www.sugar-feather.com/product/hedemora-chicken/Strong Animals Chicken Essentialshttps://www.getstronganimals.com/Kate Whyld - Hens on Oxneyhttps://hensonoxney.co.uk/Hens on Oxney Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hensonoxney/?hl=enHens on Oxney Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/hensonoxney/Poly Vi Solhttps://amzn.to/3LCGoOfAs Amazon affiliates, we receive a small commission from purchases of the item above.Strawberry Moussehttps://coffeewiththechickenladies.com/farm-fresh-egg-recipes/strawberry-mousse/Chewyhttps://www.chewy.com/s?query=chickens&nav-submit-button=CWTCL Websitehttps://coffeewiththechickenladies.com/CWTCL Etsy Shophttps://www.etsy.com/shop/CoffeeWChickenLadiesCWTCL Amazon Recommendationshttps://www.amazon.com/shop/coffeewiththechickenladiesSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/coffeewiththechickenladies)

Mac Clayton explores the nature of loneliness. 

The commonly seen diagnosis of Failure to Thrive is an easily preventable disease state but when ignored, it can lead to serious complications. Dr. Rebecca Yang and Dr. Kathryn McLeod joins medical student Sheenu Chirackel to discuss the evaluation and management for failure to thrive in childhood. Listen to this week's podcast to: Recognize common history and physical exam findings associated with Failure to Thrive Formulate a differential diagnosis for FTT Identify potential risk factors and causes for FTT Initiate appropriate therapy for FTT Special thanks to Dr. Rebecca Pierce for peer reviewing this episode FREE CME Credit (requires sign-in):  https://mcg.cloud-cme.com/course/courseoverview?P=0&EID=10784   Thank you for listening to this episode from the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Georgia. Remember that all content during this episode is intended for informational and educational purposes only. It should not be used as medical advice to diagnose or treat any particular patient. Clinical vignette cases presented are based on hypothetical patient scenarios. Thank you for your support! References: Berwick DM, Levy JC, Kleinerman R. Failure to thrive: diagnostic yield of hospitalisation. Arch Dis Child. 1982;57(5):347-351. doi:10.1136/adc.57.5.347 Bithoney WG, Van Sciver MM, Foster S, Corso S, Tentindo C. Parental stress and growth outcome in growth-deficient children. Pediatrics. 1995 Oct;96(4 Pt 1):707-11. PMID: 7567335. O'Brien LM, Heycock EG, Hanna M, Jones PW, Cox JL. Postnatal depression and faltering growth: a community study. Pediatrics. 2004 May;113(5):1242-7. doi: 10.1542/peds.113.5.1242. PMID: 15121936. Danner E, Joeckel R, Michalak S, Phillips S, Goday PS. Weight velocity in infants and children. Nutr Clin Pract. 2009 Feb-Mar;24(1):76-9. doi: 10.1177/0884533608329663. PMID: 19244151. Homan GJ. Failure to Thrive: A Practical Guide. Am Fam Physician. 2016 Aug 15;94(4):295-9. PMID: 27548594. Estrem HH, Pados BF, Park J, Knafl KA, Thoyre SM. Feeding problems in infancy and early childhood: evolutionary concept analysis. J Adv Nurs. 2017 Jan;73(1):56-70. doi: 10.1111/jan.13140. Epub 2016 Sep 23. PMID: 27601073. Larson-Nath, C., & Biank, V. F. (2016). Clinical review of failure to thrive in pediatric patients.Pediatric Annals, 45(2), e46-49. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/00904481-20160114-01 Cole, S. Z., & Lanham, J. S. (2011). Failure to thrive: An update. American Family Physician, 83(7), 829-834. Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/failure-thrive-update/docview/2454417000/se-2?accountid=12365

Join me as we dive into a Pediatrics in Review Article titled "Failure to Thrive or Growth Faltering: Medical, Developmental/Behavioral, Nutritional, and Social Dimensions" (November 2021) for a wholesome look at the factors leading to impaired growth and development in pediatric patients.

Debi Lewis spent years trying to get an accurate diagnosis for her daughter - something other than "failure to thrive." She shares the challenges of navigating a broken medical system and the journey her family went through to finally get answers. ► Learn more about this episode: https://www.mothersofmisfits.com/blog/99-overcoming-a-failure-to-thrive-diagnosis-debi-lewis ► Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jvG_hL2DPTo ► Join our weekly Episode Insider newsletter: https://mothersofmisfits.com ► Subscribe & leave a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mothers-of-misfits/id1503184614

I remember the my daughter’s gastroenterologist saying, “Wow, you’ve really found a lot of great foods.” And, “We have so many patients who are less compliant than you.” I said, “Well, you know, it was really hard. It was, at minimum, a halftime job. Do all of your patients, families have the time and energy for this?” And he said, “Well probably not.”Welcome to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast where we talk about diet culture, fatphobia, parenting, and health. Today I’m chatting with Debi Lewis, author of the beautiful new memoir Kitchen Medicine: How I Fed My Daughter Out of Failure to Thrive. Debi has also written for the New York Times, Bon Appetit, Huffington Post, and many other outlets. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and teenage daughters. This conversation is close to my heart. As most listeners know, my own daughter spent the first two years of her life dependent on a feeding tube. So reading Debi’s memoir hit home in all sorts of ways that we talk about, but I think this is a book that will resonate with so many of you. If you are a parent who has fed a kid—even if it went swimmingly, without medical complications—there is so much here that you will relate to about Debi’s journey, and the struggle to live up to external expectations about what feeding our kids looks like, and what it means for motherhood. CW: We do discuss critically ill kids, medical trauma, and fatphobic comments that people (maddeningly) make in those situations. Take care of yourself. PS. Friends! The Burnt Toast Giving Circle raised over $6,000 in less than a week! I am so insanely proud of us. And if you’ve been thinking about joining, we still need you! Here’s last week’s Burnt Toast ICYMI and the link to donate. Episode 35 TranscriptVirginiaHi Debi! Can you tell us a little bit about yourself, your family, and your work?DebiMy name is Debi Lewis and I am the mom of two teenage girls, 19 and 16, and married to my husband and we live in the suburbs of Chicago. This is my first book that I’m very excited to share with all of your listeners. And in the rest of my day I make websites.VirginiaWe are here to talk about your new book Kitchen Medicine and when this episode airs, it will be your launch week. So folks, it’s in bookstores everywhere! It is just the most beautiful memoir of your experiences feeding your daughter, Sammi, who was diagnosed with failure to thrive at a really young age. Let’s start by talking a little bit about that failure to thrive diagnosis. Tell us about your experience with it, because I think it is such a horrific term in a lot of ways. It’s both very common and deeply misunderstood.DebiI think there’s a lot of things wrong with the term. “Failure to thrive” is not a very specific diagnosis. It’s kind of a catchall and the real search is for why. Why would you diagnose a child with that? It’s not the end, it’s a symptom. And the other problem is that it’s a wildly inaccurate term. Because if you had met my daughter during most of the years in which she fell under that umbrella of “failure to thrive,” you would never look at her and think this child is not thriving. This was a pink cheeked, energetic, bubbly, cute little girl, meeting all her developmental milestones except for the ones that required her to be tall enough. FTT was really diagnosing the fact that she wasn’t growing on the trajectory that doctors wanted. If you looked over many years, you could see that that growth trajectory was her own and steady and she didn’t drop very often and it was nothing that, in retrospect, I should have been worried about. But because she was tiny and because she wasn’t getting less tiny compared to her peers, we kept hearing that. And the way that diagnosis comes out is when a doctor or nurse points their finger at the parent and kind of wags it a little and says, "Whoops, Mom! She’s still failure to thrive! Got to get a few more calories in her," as though that isn’t the one thing you spend most of your life trying to do. As though I wasn’t chasing her around our house with a cup of Carnation Instant Breakfast already. So that’s the problem with that term. The diagnosis says “Failure To Thrive,” but what it sounds like, at least what it sounded like to me, is failure to feed.VirginiaThere’s so much inherent judgment and blame in that failure concept. The idea that we would be labeling a child’s body as a failure in some way is horrifying. And that we would be putting that on parents without giving the benefit of the doubt that, of course, this is a parent who loves their child and is trying so hard. It reminds me, too—on the flip side, obviously on Burnt Toast we talk a lot about kids in bigger bodies—and it’s so often the same thing. It’s the same judgment and the same assumption that somehow a parent needs to be informed of their child’s body, when you’re living in the world with this kid who’s not in the 50th percentile in whichever direction, so you’re getting the comments from strangers and family members and people all the time. People are watching your child eat or not eat. The idea of the medical establishment feeling like it’s their job to educate parents about this is something that I find problematic.DebiThere are things that we miss when all we’re focusing on is the amount of food or the number of calories, either too many or too few. You miss the the the mechanisms behind whatever you want to call it instead of Failure To Thrive—not meeting standard growth trajectory or some other kind of more descriptive term. The question should always be, if this is a problem, why do you think it’s a problem? And why do you think it’s happening? That is really hard for a parent to dig into, when all they can hear is that they’re doing it wrong.VirginiaIt’s narrowing the conversation in this really unhelpful way. The why is the piece that the parent can’t solve without the help of the medical establishment most of the time. If there is an underlying medical condition, of course you need doctors to be doing their best work to help you figure that out and treat that. Instead, when you’re put into this confrontational, adversarial relationship with doctors, then there’s this lack of trust, and no good comes of that.DebiIn both directions, right? We need to be able to find doctors that will work with us, but doctors also need to see us as parents as part of the team. If we’re shut down because we’re told we haven’t fed our kids enough Carnation Instant Breakfast that day, it’s hard to participate fully when you’re sort of drowning in shame. The erasure of self when you’re being called “mom” by someone who is not your child—it’s intense.VirginiaOh my gosh, I remember that from our years of hospital living with my older daughter. Yeah, just being “mom” and thinking, “I am Virginia. I’m a person beyond this.” And I get that doctors are busy and overworked—to be clear, Debi and I are also big fans of the doctors who have helped our kids. But taking that extra three seconds to learn someone’s name and look at them as a human is everything. DebiYeah, in a hospital setting I understand that every single person can’t learn my name, but a doctor who I’ve worked with, with my daughter, for three years should have written my name somewhere on the top of the chart.VirginiaSo, you and I both have this experience of the child who’s struggling to eat enough. And the medical system both blamed us and also did not have the answers. They’re saying “do Carnation Instant Breakfast,” as if that’s a newsflash. They don’t have any more revolutionary guidance for you. When did you realize that figuring out the food piece of this was falling completely on you? DebiIt happened several times that a medical professional would prescribe a specific diet to my daughter. She was on several restrictive diets over the years, trying to uncover what was going on. So they’d prescribe the diet and they’d hand me a packet of photocopied sheets with food information on them and then say, “Do you have any questions?” If I couldn’t think of something in the moment, reaching them later was really hard. There were actually several moments—because we’re a family that is vegetarian, most of these doctors didn’t want us to add meat to our daughter’s diet and complicate the process since it never had been in there before. But so many of these diets had a lot of meat in them. And when I would ask, "What would you replace meat with, in our case?" There would sort of be a blank stare and the question of had we’d ever tried beans. As vegetarians, we’ve heard of beans. We’ve tried them a few thousand times. So I think it was one day sitting on my kitchen floor with the photocopies and all my cookbooks, and realizing, there wasn’t another roadmap for me. Nobody was coming to rescue me. I was just going to have to figure this out. And partly, that’s why I wrote this book, because I think that’s a very common situation. If you enter any kind of online support group for any medical issue that has a diet associated with it, whether that’s families with children with type one diabetes or Celiac’s disease. It’s very peer supportive because there isn’t anything out there that we can find elsewhere. Feeling that it was all on me was overwhelming but also it meant I didn’t have to consult with anybody. It was quite empowering. Once I had my groove going, knowing that I could do it myself and seeing it as a creative challenge was sometimes really satisfying. In the course of all of this, as hard as it was, learning to cook this way helped me fall in love with food in a way that I couldn’t before. I had to see it as important fuel, and also love and nurturing. Doing that for my daughter was a way of doing it for myself, too.VirginiaThere was a phase in our journey when Violet was still on her feeding tube and we were doing a blended diet for the feeding tube, which is not something I recommend everyone do. It’s incredibly labor intensive. But at the place I was then, with our relationship around food, it was also the first opportunity I had to feel like I was feeding my child directly. And this is not to formula-shame, because formula also saved her life. But I had spent the first year and a half just pumping formula into her feeding tube. So to be able to take a more active role in cooking for her, even though she couldn’t yet eat by mouth, was healing. Whether or not that was an important part of her recovery, it was an important part of my recovery. So if you’re a parent in this kind of situation, finding the ways to find your confidence with it and find some joy in it is everything.DebiYeah, absolutely.VirginiaI wanted to talk a little more about the experience of being on these medically supervised diets. You talk about a couple of different ones in the book. We also had to do fat-free for a while, and that is a brutal diet to do with a small child. When you’re on one of these weird diets, people say really idiotic things to you about how your kid is eating and their own food stuff comes up. So you did touch on this a few times in the book, but I’m just curious to hear a little more about how diet culture intersected with all of this for you.DebiIt was bananas. I assumed that if an adult was on a diet like this, for medical reasons, that they would hear these kinds of things. I wouldn’t have been surprised. But I was horrified and shocked to hear people talking like this about my four-year-old to eight-year-old. There’s there’s one instance, I don’t talk about this in the book, but my daughter was on a six food elimination diet, which was no dairy, no soy, no eggs, no nuts, no wheat, and no fish—but we were already vegetarian. The results of that trial, of taking all of those things out, if it was successful, was that her esophagus would heal the damage it had sustained prior. And then we would be able to start adding things back in. But if she didn’t heal, then at the age of five, she would have been put on an elemental formula. Anybody who’s fed their babies elemental formula will recall the smell of elemental formula. And babies don’t know any different, but four-year-olds and five-year-olds certainly do. So we had been warned that if she ended up on this formula, there was a chance she wouldn’t be able to bring herself to take it in and she’d need an NG-tube or a G-Tube. I was really afraid of that. I know I would have been grateful for it if it had kept her alive and healthy, but I really hoped it wouldn’t happen. And a friend of mine said, "Well, the upside of that, if she ends up living on that kind of food for the rest of her life, is that she’s never going to be fat. And she’s never going to have, you know, all these emotional issues around food. At least you could know that." I remember where I was when she said it. I remember how it felt when she said it. My instinct was to kick her out of my house. I never wanted to talk to her again. I just couldn’t believe someone would say that there was an upside to never eating food again.VirginiaI’m just taking a minute with that one. This idea that being fat is something to be so avoided, even if the cost is actually eating food. That’s so wrong and harmful. DebiIt was awful. And I was angry, really angry in the moment, especially because I like food. I’m not afraid to say I think food is fantastic. I think it’s delicious. I think it’s adventure and joy, and love and community, and all of those things. I didn’t want my daughter to miss out on it. But when I really thought about it, I also felt really sad for my friend that her relationship with food was so fraught and so negative, that she could see the upside to never being able to eat again. I mean, it’s a sign of sickness to feel that way.VirginiaIt is a deep heartbreak to feel that alienated from food that the idea of injecting a formula into your stomach feels better, which is what life on a G-tube with elemental formula is. I also have so much gratitude for G-tubes and they are a valid way to feed somebody who needs to be fed that way. But you are missing out on a lot of life if that’s how you’re eating.DebiIt’s not that I think there wouldn’t have been joy, community, family, and love in my daughter’s life without eating regular food. Of course, there would have been. But it was a big part of our lives, as it is a big part of most people’s lives. I was hoping that it wouldn’t be necessary.There were other times that people said other crazy things to us about about her diets, including on that fat-free diet. Like when an administrator at her school crouched down and asked her how it was going. We both said it was awful and we only had three weeks left or whatever. And then this administrator asked my eight-year-old daughter to make a list of all of the foods she was eating so this person could then use that list to take off her holiday weight or whatever. I said “No!” loudly in that moment and pulled Sammi away from her. And I said, "This isn’t safe. Eating this way isn’t healthy for anybody. It’s only for right now because of the complications she has had in surgery, and it wouldn’t be good for you." Her response was, "Oh, I don’t care. As long as it helps me lose this weight." And she wasn’t the only person who talked like that. Not everybody talked like that to Sammi, but many people talk like that to me about it.VirginiaYeah, we got a lot of those comments, too. I remember combing the grocery store aisles because the other thing about doing a fat-free diet when I did it about five years ago, is fat-free is really out of vogue with diet culture in general. So it’s hard to find fat-free foods now. I’m combing the aisles looking for the one dusty box of Snackwell’s. Because what cookie can I give a three year old who can’t eat fat? And people were still saying, “Oh, lucky kid,” or something. It’s enraging. And, as you say, it’s also deeply depressing because it’s speaking to this larger dysfunction that we have normalized anti-fatness to the point that we will say these things to children. And, it’s minimizing their struggle. It’s minimizing their experience going through this really tough thing. DebiSure, and also what other people think of as a fat-free diet from the 80’s or whatever was actually not really fat-free. Because a real fat-free diet that’s used for the treatment of, for example in Sammi’s case, chylothorax—where there was a break in one of her thoracic ducts—means that you need to limit yourself to under half a gram of fat per serving. An example of something that has more than that is air-popped popcorn. Chickpeas. Edamame. All these are foods that we think of as really healthy and we don’t think of them as fatty, but that’s too much fat. Can you imagine feeding a child on that little fat? I mean, it has huge effects on their mental health. It’s awful to watch.VirginiaIt was also chylothorax in our case. At the time Violet’s favorite food was guacamole. My best friend, Amy Palanjian who runs Yummy Toddler Food, worked so hard to figure out a fat-free guacamole. She came up with a recipe with I think we were trying to use peas in Greek yogurt, like fat-free Greek yogurt. And Amy, thank you again for going down that rabbit hole for me! But it tasted terrible. I could see the betrayal on my child’s face because I was like, “This is a guacamole you can eat!” and it tasted nothing like what she was hoping to have. DebiWhat fat does to food, from a culinary perspective, is all kinds of things you don’t think about. Even that spritz of olive oil on the bottom of your pan helps the spices stick to the food. It creates a mess when you take fat away. On top of it, that little dietary fat in anybody’s diet affects how your brain operates. It really made me understand the 80’s in a totally different way. All these angry women pushing their carts through the grocery store with their Snackwell’s. Like, of course they were cranky.VirginiaI think the experience you and I both share is this understanding that these medical system failures are reinforcing this larger cultural failure, where we make feeding kids the main project and problem of mothers. In reading the book, I resonated with how much feeding Sammi became central to your identity during these years. It was something you were spending hours every week on and it really becomes your whole world. Yet it feels so unfair to reduce mothering just to food, just to the act of feeding kids. I’m curious to hear how you have reckoned with that relationship between food and mothering? How do you see these things relating to each other now?DebiI became the default person at home for some of the same reasons that a lot of women end up the default person at home. When doctors told us that Sammi would end up in the hospital with every cold and she really couldn’t go to daycare, I looked at the cost of a nanny and what I was making, and it would have been like a treadmill for as long as we needed a nanny. We didn’t make as much money as we would have spent on one. And also she was was breastfeeding and I was the one with the breasts, so it just made sense for me to be the one that was home. Then whoever was home with her had to be the one who learned best how to feed her. I will say also that my mother, who was the cook in our house when I was growing up, had said to me when I first quit my job and was worried that I was becoming boring and that all I was was a stay at home mom. It wasn’t enough for me in the moment. My mom said to just try to get into whatever it was I was doing at the time. So if that meant that was home and I just had to get into the mothering thing, I got into it. It was good advice for the moment for me. I really tried to get into it and find my little daily small wins in the kitchen. Sometimes that was a good strategy and sometimes it was not. But it did become my whole world for a long time. I don’t think that’s so different from the ways in which other parents who are parenting medically complex children have their whole world become how to move their child who’s in a wheelchair from place to place and advocate for better services. Parents who are parenting kids with any kind of disability spend a lot of energy and effort on the things that will make their children’s lives better. Because we love our children, you know? We want to make everything as easy as we can. So in that way, it was not so different from other ways in which parents get really dug in on their thing.VirginiaBecause the world’s not built to get the wheelchair from point A to point B, because the world’s not built to help kids learn to eat when they’re struggling in this way. The culture is set up so that in general, with parenthood, to assume that there’s going to be this undue burden on the mother most of the time. Then certainly, when you add medical complexity to that, it just pushes so many of us into this box. This is not about not loving our kids, but some larger systems in our culture that were there for us would also be really useful. We should also acknowledge, we both have a fair amount of privilege at play. And you in particular are, obviously, a very gifted chef, who is able to cook just from scratch to a degree that most people—myself included—cannot. Which is why things like formula are so important because not everyone can do the alternatives.DebiI would love to talk about that for a moment because the cost of feeding a child on one of these elimination diets is intense. It is wildly expensive. Our grocery bill at minimum doubled on that diet, on the six food elimination diet. I thought all the time about how could parents with less means ever do this successfully? I remember my daughter’s gastroenterologist saying, “Wow, you’ve really found a lot of great foods. You’ve really figured this out. We have so many patients are less compliant than you.” And I said, “Well, you know, it was really hard. It was like, at minimum a halftime job. Do all of your patients’ families have the time and energy for this?” And he said, “Well, probably not. But they should just do the formula then if they’re not going to do what you did.” That was horrifying to me. I couldn’t believe there wasn’t a consultant in that office who could, say, take a family to the grocery store and walk them through the brands of gluten-free noodles that work on this diet. Here is a coconut milk yogurt that you can usually get on sale. VirginiaHis use of the word “compliant” is so interesting there, because it shows how much more marginalized parents—whether we’re talking about parents of color, lower income parents, parents with their own disabilities, fat parents, etc—get dismissed by the medical system and judged. And to bring it back to the whole “Failure To Thrive” concept, often that diagnosis is used as a justification for removing parental rights. For privileged white moms not so much. But if you’re a lower income mom of color, that’s gonna be a really terrifying diagnosis in a different way. DebiI remember, when my daughter was in the hospital for her final surgery, a friend of mine had his kid in the hospital getting treated for leukemia. He asked me how I had found the social work team, was I getting a lot of help. And I said, “What social work team?” And he said, “Oh, when we got the diagnosis, they were literally waiting outside the door.” You know, when you get a cancer diagnosis for your kid, there’s a trigger in the hospital system that just activates the Social Work team. And I thought, why are there not triggers like that for any diet that a doctor prescribes? Why is there not an immediate trigger for both nutrition and dietitian teams and a social worker? Because changing your diet like this, it changes your whole life. And it’s emotional. Food is love and emotion and care. When there isn’t an immediate set of supports, other than someone handing you a sheet of paper with a list of foods on it, it’s a recipe for failure. No pun intended.VirginiaUnfortunately, if there were those triggers, I would worry in our current system it would become a way to stigmatize parents struggling to follow the diet, right? Because maybe you’re going to bring in people who have these different biases that they haven’t reckoned with and are going to hold them against the parents. What you really want is a psychologist or social worker who’s trained in disordered eating and trauma-informed care. But that’s a whole level of support that I don’t think is even part of the puzzle, usually. So then that means the only people who can access it are people with other means. For other parents, who are in this boat now, it might be really helpful to hear a bit about how you were able to hold on to your identity during that time —as Debi and not as the anonymous “Mom” the doctors talk through. Or. how have you worked to find your way back to that?DebiYeah, I think probably during that time, not so much. I might have been indignant. I certainly was lonely, sometimes. But I had no time to be involved in the things that would have made me feel more like me. The exception would be that I did have a regular band that I played in. I’m an old-time Quebecois fiddler. I was lucky to get out and do that, usually once every week or two for an evening or an afternoon. That was great. It was actually great to be in that world where not everybody was even a parent. They didn’t really know or understand my kids or my situation. So it was a little bit of an escape. But other than that, no. Feeding Sammi was the main job. I certainly worked and when I look back, I’m kind of amazed at the places and situations in which I worked. In hospital rooms, waiting outside surgeries, or in the midst of 500 other things. I would have a computer on the counter, finishing a website for a client while also soaking some weird starch in some weird liquid to try to form the ingredient for some weird thing I was trying to make that night. So you know, I fit it all in. But I was probably mostly running on an autopilot, as I think a lot of a lot of parents are. I’m lucky, I’m so lucky, our family is so lucky that in the end, Sammi was curable. Sammi’s issue, it turned out, really had nothing to do with what she was eating at all. And so once we resolved the problem fully, I didn’t have to do this anymore. That took some getting used to: Trusting myself, trusting her, knowing that she would eat what she needed to eat and she was capable of it. And that I didn’t have to push. It took some time. I think writing this book was the thing that brought me back to myself, to appreciate all that we had achieved together, Sammi and I, and to appreciate all that I had survived. And to appreciate that, in the end, both of us are thriving.VirginiaI look back on those years of my parenting and wonder how I was functioning as a person. I think that’s normal. I think it’s good to know that it won’t be that way forever. In my own family’s case, it’s not a curable condition. It’s something we continue to live with. But there have still been ways to find myself again. We hear all the time, you have to take care of yourself to help everyone else and whatever. And it’s sort of a garbage message a lot of the time. But it is true that you cannot care for a kid in any circumstance, but especially not a complicated circumstance, if you aren’t holding on to one little piece of yourself. Even if it’s just and every two weeks band practice. Butter For Your Burnt ToastDebiWe are loving this season of Kids Baking Championship on the Food Network! This is one of our family favorites. It is a baking competition show, but all the contestants are kids. This season is the youngest group of bakers ever! There are some as young as eight or nine. They are making amazing baked goods that I could never achieve here in my 40’s. I absolutely love this show. I feel like sometimes these baking shows were what brought me back to the creative and joyful part of cooking. I learned to make layer cakes and eclairs and macarons and all kinds of other fancy things from watching these baking shows.VirginiaI love that! I want to watch it with my eight-year-old because we’re at the stage where she’s still a cautious eater and when she knows how to make something herself it is hugely empowering. I think her seeing other kids baking and loving food would be good. I’m definitely gonna watch that. That’s a great recommendation. Thank you!DebiIt’s very, very sweet. No pun intended there either.VirginiaWe love a good food pun here, obviously. My recommendation is for folks who are, like Debi and I, in northern climates. Probably the ice and snow is making you crazy, even though it’s March. If you have a garden or anywhere you can grow things, I recommend you get some poppy seeds. You just throw the poppy seeds out into your flower bed. You don’t have to dig holes. You don’t have to do anything fancy, you just literally scatter them around. Come July, you will thank me when you have spectacular poppies. I just sowed mine and I have a couple of raised beds. I just did the poppy seeds last weekend right on top of the snow and it’s just this little moment. I try to do it around this time every year when I’m giving up all hope that spring will return because it gives me that minute of like, okay, it’s coming back. Then I look at pictures of last year’s poppies and I feel really happy. So if you are a gardener or a garden-aspiring-person, poppy seeds is my recommendation. Well, Debi, thank you so much for being here! I loved this conversation so much. Listeners, you need to get Kitchen Medicine right now! Debi, how can we follow your work?DebiYou can follow me on on Twitter at @growthesunshine—my Sammi’s nickname is Sammi Sunshine—and also on Instagram @growthesunshine. If you have ordered the book, send me a message on Twitter or Instagram and let me know that you have. I will dedicate one of my quirky weird kitchen tools to you with a little story about it up on my Instagram account. VirginiaThose have been so fun to see. You have the most amazing collection of kitchen tools. Thank you for being here!The Burnt Toast Podcast is produced and hosted by me, Virginia Sole-Smith. You can follow me on Instagram or Twitter.Burnt Toast transcripts and essays are edited and formatted by Corinne Fay, who runs @SellTradePlus, an Instagram account where you can buy and sell plus size clothing.The Burnt Toast logo is by Deanna Lowe.Our theme music is by Jeff Bailey and Chris Maxwell.Tommy Harron is our audio engineer.Thanks for listening and for supporting independent anti-diet journalism. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com/subscribe

Debi Lewis | Kitchen Medicine | PodcastThat's the #Truth podcast Season 2 Episode 5 | Daniel & Jenny MuscatellToday's guest is Debi Lewis. Debi is the author of the parenting and food memoir, Kitchen Medicine: How I Fed My Daughter out of Failure to Thrive. She has written for outlets including The New York Times, Bon Appetit, Huffington Post, Romper, Wired, and more. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and two teenaged daughters. Kitchen Medicine: How I Fed My Daughter out of Failure to Thrive tells the story of how Lewis made her way through mothering and feeding a sick child, aided by Lewis' growing confidence in front of the stove. It's about how she eventually saw her role as more than caretaker and fighter for her daughter's health and how she had to redefine what mothering—and feeding—looked like once her daughter was well. This is the story of learning to feed a child who can't seem to eat. It's the story of growing love for food, a mirror for people who cook for fuel and those who cook for love; for those who see the miracle in the growing child and in the fresh peach; for matzo-ball lovers and the gluten-intolerant; and for parents who want to feed their kids without starving their souls.Connect with Daniel and Jenny:Website:https: //www.muscatellministries.com/Website:https: //www.jennymuscatell.com/Insta:https: //www.instagram.com/jennymuscatell/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JenMuscatellPodcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1737272Connect with Debi: Website: https://www.debilewis.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growthesunshine/Twitter: https://twitter.com/growthesunshine

In this episode of The Food Allergy Talk Podcast, Lisa Horne interviews Dr. Trill Paullin, Molecular Biologist and CEO & Founder of Free to Feed. Dr. Trill, as she is well-known, is a Molecular Biologist and mother to two beautiful daughters who had severe infant food reactions to proteins transferred from her diet to breast milk.  After processing the painful fact that she could hurt her children through breastfeeding, she started researching how to produce breast milk they could properly digest.  Dr. Trill discovered that many parents experience the same troubling situation.  She wanted to create a place for parents to find answers to their questions about infant food reactivity and empower them to reach their feeding goals.  Free to Feed was born to provide the research, resources, and support she wished they had early on.  They have started this mission by creating an annual subscription to empower parents through their food allergy journey, a tracking app built specifically for this space, personal consultations, as well as an allergy friendly post-natal multivitamin.  Parents can take a free quiz to see if their infant is likely experiencing food reactivity. https://quiz.tryinteract.com/#/61e8581a2548d600180ca799Once you complete the quiz you also receive a complimentary 40 minute deep dive course into infant food allergy symptoms by Dr. Trill.Some of the topics you can look forward to discussed in this podcast episode of Food Allergy Talk:Symptoms to look for in baby both breastfeeding and formula fed Dr. Trill's experience with two sweet and beautiful baby girls that experienced food sensitivities and allergic responses during breastfeeding and how she navigated the journey that led to creating Free to Feed.How Dr. Trill's molecular biology education coupled with food manufacturing experience, created the foundation to help both her family and others in the community.Testing breast milk and how food transfers through milk and for how long does it stay present in breast milk.How to self advocate and what to look for in symptoms and resources to help.Know when to get a second option and find a doctor that supports your journey into getting the resources you need.You are not alone, having a food allergy, sensitivity, trouble breastfeeding or other food and feeding issue doesn't make anyone less of a parent. Positive messaging to become EMPOWERED!Doubt your doubts, before you doubt yourself.The Free to Feed app, how it helps parents, where to find it and what it does for you.Stool, skin, behavior and other symptoms to look for in baby, with both formula and breast milk.Links to sensitivities through diaper rashes and skin reactions, and contact dermatitis.Misconceptions with babies and busting myths surrounding colic, lactose intolerance and more!Information regarding the Free to Feed breast milk test strips, launching mid to late summer 2022, to help parents become empowered to connect the dots themselves.Removing shame from feeding with formula, and empowering parents to choose what's best for them. While also helping those that want to feed either way, get the tools they need.Positive messaging that YOU'RE DOING AN AMAZING JOB regardless of what part of the baby feeding journey you're on!Find Dr. Trill online:Web: https://www.freetofeed.com/IG: https://www.instagram.com/free.to.feed/FB: https://www.facebook.com/befreetofeed/Listen online anytime: https://foodallergypi.com/the-food-allergy-talk-podcast/ or on any podcast player. 

Miguel Escobar is a Texas born Father, Leader, God loving, Animal loving, and Earth loving Physician Assistant (PA) that currently lives in South Texas. He studied Biology at Texas A&M University and finished his Master's degree in PA studies at UT Rio Grande Valley University. He has 15 years of experience working in many areas of the Healthcare system and brings forth immense energy, passion, empathy and forward thinking practices to his community. Miguel is now fighting back against the tyrannical ideologies and misinformation that is spreading all over the world. His intentions are to help spread the TRUTH about Spirituality, Health and Knowledge. He believes it is imperative that we all unite and collaborate together now, not just in the United States of America but also all around the world, to educate and empower ourselves to be the Sovereign Natural Beings that God intended us to live as. Resources: Visit Miguel's website for resources and information here: https://www.txlightguardians.com View Miguel's famous speech to the school board here Get in touch with Miguel through email at Freedom@txlightguardians.com Thanks for joining us on the Think Yourself Healthy Podcast! Don't forget to leave a review and make sure you share that you're listening to this episode on the gram and tag myself @heatherderanja and @thinkyourselfhealthy_ so we can share! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/heather-deranja/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heather-deranja/support

Have you ever been told by a medical professional that you and your baby are an example of 'Failure to Thrive'?  If you have, this episode is for you and how you can overcome hearing that awful terminology.  We chat to the lovely, charming, strong and hilarious Georgia. Georgia is a mumma to the cutest baby boy Elijah who is 18 months old and is a Psychologist, back at work part time. Georgia  also has some other babies, incubated baby chickens, making her a new mum of five. Georgia let us in on a little parenting hack, 'Primary Parenting' days, aka 'PP' days, but you will have to listen to find out what that is! She also touches on fussy eating and has a solids smoothie tip. This episode is brought to you with the help of our Sponsor, Night N Day Comfort, who are proud supporters of the Pumped Podcast. Remember to use PUMPED10 at the checkout for a special discount.Go to our website: www.pumpedpoddy.com for more information about us and don't forget to throw us a like on Facebook and a follow on our Instagram: @pumpedpoddyByeeeeeee x

Dr. Adolfo Molina (Pediatric Hospitalist at UAB) joins The Cribsiders for a deep dive on all things Failure to Thrive! From the 3 broad buckets of the FTT differential, the red flags to keep an eye on, and how a lab-heavy hospital workup is almost never needed!

November 1, 1993,  Lorraine Day, M.D. was told she had stage 4 cancer. Since getting well, she has NOT felt sick. In fact, she is focused on helping others learn from her journey to health. Along the way, she has poked us all in the eyes! Dr. Day's research has given us a starting point for […] The post Lorraine Day, MD, Causes for the Failure to Thrive appeared first on LillianMcDermott.com.

November 1, 1993, Lorraine Day, M.D. was told she had stage 4 cancer. Since getting well, she has NOT felt sick. In fact, she is focused on helping others learn from her journey to health. Along the way, she has poked us all in the eyes! Dr. Day's research has given us a starting point for verification of New Truths. If you have been on a health journey and are not getting well, there is a reason. Dr. Day will share the causes for failure.

Whitney Poma joins us for a raw retelling of her first birth, as she prepares to welcome her second child into the world. In between these two births, Whitney used what she learned through her personal struggle with nutrition to launch Momful, a company dedicated to creating highly nutritional supplements for pregnant and nursing mothers. These products simplify the complex world of nutrition so that moms can relax and focus on their growing families. In this episode, we take a look at the staggering amount of expecting and breastfeeding moms who don't get the proper nutrition. Join us for this yummy episode of the Express Yourself Podcast with Whitney Poma.  What we covered: Failure to Thrive - Challenges with her baby gaining weight. The importance of nutrition prior to conception and throughout pregnancy. When Whitney realized she's “Not the only one”. How Whitney started Momful. #1 tip for new breastfeeding moms. Related Episodes: Fertility Dietician Find out more about Momful:  Momful.co Instagram Whitney's Bio: Momful's mission is to nourish moms on their breastfeeding journey. Whitney's personal struggle with breastfeeding led her to find a solution to the common challenge of breastfeeding: nutrition.  Whitney's obsession with improving her nutrition, motivated her to simplify breastfeeding into a convenient daily ritual. She created a new product line of supplements and vitamins to nurture postpartum and lactating mothers. Whitney believes that health for mom and baby shouldn't be a luxury, which is why Momful donates one product for every five purchased. Learn more about BeauGen!

This episode covers failure to thrive.Written notes can be found at https://zerotofinals.com/paediatrics/development/failuretothrive/ or in the development section in the Zero to Finals paediatrics book.The audio in the episode was expertly edited by Harry Watchman.

Failure To Thrive , a physical sign rather than a disease , in this Episode Dr.Hamad Alkhalaf , General pediatrics and complex care consultant , Director of pediatric residency program in king Abdullah specialized children hospital , will discuss the evaluation of young children who are growing slowly , or not at all .  

Beautiful twin girls, Sophia and Olivia were born via c section at 28 weeks and spent 21 days in the Special Care Unit in Brisbane Australia. The girls came into this world with respiratory issues, eczema, gut and bowel issues. Their immune system was just not coping and they were only starting this journey of life. Upon being able to take them home Nilissa and her husband had a intensive routine of volume feeding and physiotherapy. This continued for 9 months until they were finally given the all clear from their pediatrician. Still, Sophia and Olivia were always sick; ear infections, reflux, covered in eczema. Every specialist said this was normal and to stop worrying. At 13 months they made a trip to Melbourne to see other specialists for further testing, opinions and management. They spent 3 months there but got no answers. At 16 months the girls stopped developing, and due to their extremely poor health began regressing. A specialist told Nilissa and her husband that the girls were severely autistic and that they should put them in a home, forget about them as they will never be anything.  For the last ten years, Nilissa has been searching for answers. She refuses to give up on her precious daughters. She and her parents have exhausted all financial resources and her marriage has broken up. Now she is doing all of this as a single mother. Today she is here to tell us her heartbreaking story. In the meantime, if you'd like to learn more about this story and the monumental struggles these beautiful, now ten year old twin girls have had since that day, please go to Healing Sophia and Olivia. This is an inspiring story that you do not want to miss. Be sure to tune in and listen. sopliv2005@gmail.com