C pipe to write / read sequence of doubles fails

For this C project I am trying to use a pipe to get a parent process to communicate with a child. The child is supposed to read lines (one each second) from a txt file (containing real numbers) and use a pipe to supply the parent, which in turn should read from the pipe and write the numbers into a log file. However the parent process only reads a sequence of 0.000000. Here is my code:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <wait.h>
#define MAX_I 5
#define delay 1
void read_input(FILE *fp);

FILE *file_log;
int status;
pid_t pid;
int pipeFD[2];

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
//initialize
    FILE *fp;

    if (argc != 2){
    if ((fp = fopen("input.txt", "r")) == NULL) {
        printf("Error! opening file");
        exit(1);}
    }
    else{
        fp = fopen(argv[1], "r");
        }

    if (pipe(pipeFD) == -1){    /* creates a pipe */
    fprintf(stderr, "\nERROR: pipe() failed\n");
    exit(1);}

    file_log=fopen("file.log","w+"); /*open the log file*/

    pid=fork();
    if(pid==0) {//child process
    printf ("%d starts \n", getpid());
    close(pipeFD[0]);//close read end for child
    read_input(fp);
    return 0;
    exit(status);
    }else{//parent 
    double speed_read;
    close(pipeFD[1]);//close write end for parent
    while(1){
        if (read(pipeFD[0], &speed_read, sizeof(speed_read)) >0){
        if (speed_read<0)
        break;
        fprintf(file_log, "%f \n", speed_read); 
        printf("process %d received %f from child \n",getpid(),speed_read);
        }else
            printf("Nothing there to read \n");  
        }
    printf("parent ended \n");
    wait(&status);
    fclose(fp);
    fclose(file_log);
    }
    return 0;
}

void read_input(FILE *fp){
    char *line = NULL;
    double speed;
    int i=0; size_t len = 0; double exit_sign =-10.0;
    while(getline(&line, &len, fp) != -1) { 
        speed=atof(line);
        i++;
        if(i>MAX_I){//reads up to MAX_I rows of input
                        printf("I'll send the exit sign to parent now\n");
                        write(pipeFD[1], &exit_sign, sizeof(double));
                        free(line);
                        break;      
                    }
        if(write(pipeFD[1], &speed, sizeof(double)>0)){
            printf("%d at %d wrote that speed is %f\n",getpid(), i,speed);
        }else{printf("Write on pipe failed\n");}
        sleep(delay);
        }
    free(line);
}

Here is what is printed:

15032 starts

15032 at 1 wrote that speed is 0.345670