Hi all,
Just looking for a little reassurance here....
My DD will be one year old next week. She was born very small, 1st percentile, but then gained weight rapidly and had jumped to the 45th percentile (in the WHO breastfeeding charts) by two months old. After that came a slow but seemingly inexorable decline in weight gain, and right now she's around the 20th percentile, still gaining, but much slower than before.
She started solids at 6 months and seemed interested at first but then lost focus. We've been doing BLW and trying to take it at her pace, just offering her lots of different things, although not a whole lot of meat as we don't eat that much ourselves. She does eat a fair amount of fruit puree and plain, organic yoghurt on some days, then nothing at all on other days. She dabbles at other things but really doesn't seem all that into it.
She's very active physically and is particularly into climbing things - she's a champion stair-climber - which, judging from what I've read on other threads, might mean she's burning off a lot of calories.
My mother thinks she isn't eating enough solids and so I decided to get her weighed. The nutritionist who weighed her thinks I should offer her a lot of pureed stuff at noon and four o'clock and not let her breastfeed anymore except in the morning and evening (in order to force her to eat the pureed stuff).
This seems wrong to me - quite apart from the idea of trying to force her to eat, which gives me the creeps, I would have thought that even at her age it still isn't a good idea to deny her breastmilk if she is asking for it. I could understand maybe offering solids first, but it seems a bit extreme to not allow her the breast at all for much of the day.
Any thoughts?
Just looking for a little reassurance here....
My DD will be one year old next week. She was born very small, 1st percentile, but then gained weight rapidly and had jumped to the 45th percentile (in the WHO breastfeeding charts) by two months old. After that came a slow but seemingly inexorable decline in weight gain, and right now she's around the 20th percentile, still gaining, but much slower than before.
She started solids at 6 months and seemed interested at first but then lost focus. We've been doing BLW and trying to take it at her pace, just offering her lots of different things, although not a whole lot of meat as we don't eat that much ourselves. She does eat a fair amount of fruit puree and plain, organic yoghurt on some days, then nothing at all on other days. She dabbles at other things but really doesn't seem all that into it.
She's very active physically and is particularly into climbing things - she's a champion stair-climber - which, judging from what I've read on other threads, might mean she's burning off a lot of calories.
My mother thinks she isn't eating enough solids and so I decided to get her weighed. The nutritionist who weighed her thinks I should offer her a lot of pureed stuff at noon and four o'clock and not let her breastfeed anymore except in the morning and evening (in order to force her to eat the pureed stuff).
This seems wrong to me - quite apart from the idea of trying to force her to eat, which gives me the creeps, I would have thought that even at her age it still isn't a good idea to deny her breastmilk if she is asking for it. I could understand maybe offering solids first, but it seems a bit extreme to not allow her the breast at all for much of the day.
Any thoughts?
I printed it out and have brought it to all the doctor apts since. The doctor was a bit bemused to see it at first but he seemed to accept it alright.
