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The PedsDocTalk Podcast

Finding Joy: Overcoming Weight and percentile anxiety for my daughter

The PedsDocTalk Podcast

Dr. Mona Amin

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family, Parenting

51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

I have spoken about weight and percentile anxiety many times both on my social media channels and on this podcast and now I am experiencing it. On this episode; I get candid about percentile anxiety and how it impacted my postpartum. I discuss: How my percentile anxiety negatively impacted me postpartum How anxiety over my daughter’s weight led to her having temporary feeding aversions How to manage percentile and weight anxiety What it means to look at the big picture when it comes to weight gain

Transcript

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0:00.0

I someone who has coached many parents through low percentiles or weight concerns

0:06.4

immediately felt worry. Wait what's wrong? She dropped from the 15th percentile to the third percentile panic mode.

0:15.0

Since that two months visit I have been in panic mode.

0:18.5

The feeling of feeling that she was flawed.

0:21.0

When everybody around me said she was perfect and cute,

0:24.4

this feeling that something was wrong with her

0:27.0

when my social media followers were telling me that she was so beautiful.

0:31.2

My anxiety was in the front seat and I was losing joy. I was losing

0:36.3

connection because I was panicking about her weight and feeling that she and I

0:41.9

were not enough.

0:43.0

Welcome back to the show.

0:46.0

It feels so good to be back recording these solo episodes for you.

0:51.0

For those of you who don't follow me on my social channels I had a baby

0:55.6

Vera who is now five months at the time of this recording and she is such a joy

1:02.3

and the last five months have been She is such a joy.

1:02.6

And the last five months have been quite the adventure.

1:06.5

I had a traumatic delivery with my son

1:09.3

and postpartum complications,

1:11.1

so I did have some anxiety leading up to her delivery, but her

1:16.0

section we had a scheduled one was so redemptive. The C section couldn't have

1:21.6

gone more perfectly, but I did develop the same post-partum

1:26.7

complications I developed with my son, which is a rare condition I was to find out after having it

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