While it is not unusual for babies to lose weight one week and then gain it back the next – sometimes with interest – it’s when a little one doesn’t grow as well as expected over time and compared to her peers that she can be said to be experiencing a failure to thrive. “As medical professionals, we classify a baby under ‘failure to thrive’ when she has a weight significantly below that expected of similar children of the same sex and age, that is, below the fifth percentile of the standard growth chart,” says Tanya Booyens, a nursing practitioner for Dis-Chem’s Well Baby clinics. “That said, it’s important to
