I have often wished there were another "diagnosis" for the well-loved and cared-for breastfed baby who isn't gaining weight. "Failure to thrive" is just the most incredibly negative term. It has to be devastating to a new mother to have her child labeled FTT--and herself labeled, by implication, as incompetent, un-nurturing, ignorant, abusive, etc. I saw a mom this summer whose baby was an ounce or two below birth weight at his two weeks peds exam---and the pediatrician marked FTT as the diagnosis for billing purposes--at two weeks!!! Good grief!!! I saw them at three weeks, by which time the baby had more than made up for his slow start, and was obviously thriving.. The mom was more than a little distressed, but she was an intelligent, mature woman who knew the term had been misapplied in her case, so she didn't panic and run for the formula, which I figure is the more common reaction. (She also didn't confront the pediatrician or ask him to explain, I think because she was so overwhelmed at the time.) It seems to me to be an act of cruelty to use such a pejorative term casually. Judy D in WV