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The first year of life is important as a foundation for growth and physical and intellectual development in the future. Children with extreme failure to thrive in the first year may never catch up to their peers even if their physical growth improves. In about one third of these extreme cases, mental development remains below normal and roughly half will continue to have psychosocial and eating problems throughout life.
When failure to thrive is identified and corrected early, most children catch up to their peers and remain healthy and well developed.
— Dorothy Elinor Stonely
