Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.

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Wow so much has been going on in my life lately but I am just going to give you a small piece of it just so you can get to know me…slightly. I recently became a mother to a very small little girl. This has changed my world in so many ways. I get comments all the time about her size and it drives me crazy. Then I have doctors trying to say there is something wrong with her even though they have been unable to find anything. Lets go back to the comments people make really quick though. Some of them are; wow she is so small she must have been a preemie, your baby is so small how old is she, the worst one though is OMG its real. People actually think that I am carrying around some fake babydoll until she moves and people notice that she is a living person. Other people tell me they wish their child would have stayed small as long as mine has and how I must enjoy her being so small. Well people news flash, when your child is as small as mine, she is in the 0.1 percentile, it is not as fun as everyone may think. You are constantly having to go to doctor appointments because they want to make sure your child is growing and is consistently gaining weight. You are constantly feeling judged and criticized by the health care providers and your child then becomes an object of several tests as they believe there has to be something wrong because they are not growing at the normal rate. I was just told today that they want me to start putting olive oil in her food to make her gain more weight. Here is where I have a problem with this; my entire family is overweight and the majority of us are obese. I do not want my child to be given so much fat and start her off overweight if she id developing just fine. My child is happy and developmentally she is ahead of the game. Yes she is six months old and her 0-3 months clothes are a little baggy on her but when did we decide that babies should all be chubby babies. Is it really that bad that my child is small and slender if otherwise she appears completely healthy. Please don’t get me wrong if there is something going on with my child I do want to know so I can help her anyway that I can but I am constantly feeling judged by everyone in one way or another and feel that I have to answer so many questions. Sorry this post was longer than I thought it would be but this is what I have going on right now.

#smallchildren, #HSU, #massmedia