May 09 Mamas - Ringin' in the New Year! - Page 5

[kdtmom2be]

Originally Posted by CookAMH

Any thoughts from you guys? My instinct says to worry so I guess I'll listen to that .

Your DS sounds JUST like mine, weight gain and development wise. DS is doing the army crawl and my MIL says he put himself into a sitting position once the other day, but he's not hands-and-knees crawling yet or cruising, pulling up, etc. He is certainly bright, alert and growing and developing and changing daily, so, yeah, I'm not worried and I don't think that you should be either.

[OceansEve]

20 lbs is only 25% for 8 months.... I thought that was big. Most babes around here don't hit 20 till 1+

Sounds fine to me

[kdtmom2be]

DS is 18.9lbs today, in a very wet diaper... so probably more like 18.8lbs. 8.5 months. That's 50%ile for weight, are you reading the WHO chart?

[Auraji]

Originally Posted by OceansEve

20 lbs is only 25% for 8 months.... I thought that was big. Most babes around here don't hit 20 till 1+

Sounds fine to me

Me too! I thought 20 pounds was big!!

I think Sophia is 21 pounds now and everyone comments on how big she is and that she looks older than what she is, when I go out with her sometimes people are expecting her to talk haha, I think is all the hair.

[lil_miss_understood]

Cook- if you're concerned he's not eating enough, I would try nursing more often or on both sides at a feeding. If you're concerned that your supply has suddenly dipped, I would schedule an appt with a LC or your dr. I had what I thought was a supply dip around the 4 month mark with ds2 and it turned out I was right, though we didn't figure out why until about 6 months. (for me it was hypothyroidism- I had a lot of symptoms by the time it was actually caught) Assuming that all is well medically/physically, your body will respond to increased feedings exactly as it was designed to do- by making more milk.

Marius started clapping today! And he rolled from back to stomach (in his crib, face on blanket ) 2 nights ago FINALLY. He scoots around on his butt and pulled himself to standing yesterday. He also signs "milk" now. Time for me to start working on "sleep" and "diaper".

[~Katie~]

Alicia - His height and weight sound totally normal to me. DD is about 18lbs. and 28 inches. It is taking some adjustment for me because DS was about 26-27lbs. at this age but I have to realize that that is not typical for a breastfed baby. What kinds of solids are you offering him, are you doing purees or BLS's? If you're concerned about milk supply, try nursing him even if you don't feel like you have milk. It's going to signal your body to make more of it. You will be surprised how much he's going to change in the next few months by his first birthday, he certainly has some more growth spurts coming up so I would just take a wait and see approach. He sounds totally normal to me though

[CookAMH]

Thanks ladies. Looks like he's around 50% on the WHO. DH and I talked for a bit last night and compared notes of all the things he does (even if not listed on milestone charts) and he's definitely developing and learning things. I remember my mom saying it's more important that his head is growing which is it (in more ways than one...lol we tell him all the time how cute he is), check him out http://i483.photobucket.com/albums/r...162_386170.jpg and http://i483.photobucket.com/albums/r...162_371189.jpg)

I am empty on the right side, have been for months. I am finding it incredibly difficult to dedicate time to pump for enough days to get supply back. My guess is he's getting 18-19 oz a day which seems to be on the low end of normal.

I've been doing purees. He picks food up and just puts it to his mouth and doesn't actually eat, but he gets excited at the sight of food, plays with it, etc.

Good point about growth spurts coming up! I'll offer nursing more often. I feel letdown if it's been an hour or more. What I wonder is, is there more milk produced overall in two feedings each hour compared to one feeding in two hours?

[lil_miss_understood]

Originally Posted by CookAMH

I am empty on the right side, have been for months. I am finding it incredibly difficult to dedicate time to pump for enough days to get supply back. My guess is he's getting 18-19 oz a day which seems to be on the low end of normal.

Will he/can he latch on that side? I understand all too well the challenges of single-sided nursing- I did it with DS2 and sort of do it with DS3 (he gets one side and DS2 gets the other). If he can and will latch, you will likely see results much more quickly and easily. If you find it necessary to supplement, you might consider a SNS or Lact-aid for coaxing him to nurse on that side to increase your natural supply. That's what I did with DS2 when I finally got him to latch on the right; I pumped the left, then let him nurse on that side to make sure it was empty then switched him to the SNS on the right to stimulate production.
Just my experience.
But I do agree with pps that it sounds like he's growing well and developing just fine, fwiw.

[~Katie~]

Oh, I had to come back and describe my wake up very early this morning. I was asleep and woke up to the sensation of little, tiny nails gauging out my eye ball. Apparently Laine was awake and sitting next to me and didn't feel like letting me sleep any longer, so she tore a 2 inch scratch under my eye, hard enough to draw blood. I screamed bloody murder, my eye is still killing me. I guess that teaches me for trying to get some sleep.

In other news, she's now pulling herself up on anything she can reach. The first time I caught her she had pulled herself to standing on the bottom stair, now she's using anything low enough to the ground to get herself up.

Anybody else feel like the time is flying by? I wonder where this tiny baby went, she's growing up way too fast for me.

[Kelly1101]

Originally Posted by CookAMH

Thanks ladies. Looks like he's around 50% on the WHO. DH and I talked for a bit last night and compared notes of all the things he does (even if not listed on milestone charts) and he's definitely developing and learning things. I remember my mom saying it's more important that his head is growing which is it (in more ways than one...lol we tell him all the time how cute he is), check him out http://i483.photobucket.com/albums/r...162_386170.jpg and http://i483.photobucket.com/albums/r...162_371189.jpg)

ROTFL, oh Alicia he's precious. I love that first picture.

Really, I wouldn't be worried at a 20 lb 8-month-old. Em is only 17 lb 8 oz, at 9 months, (born at 7lb 4 oz), and her ped. at her appointment last week said she looked great and perfectly healthy. I even commented on it because she's not a "chunky" baby, she's pretty long and lean, but he pointed at her thigh and said, "she's not starving, that's the perfect amount of chubbiness right there." He said that a lot of breastfed babies tend to be lankier, because of how the milk adjusts itself as they grow.

And I know that as much as we all say that we're not going to worry about milestones, and then we do , it really is the "progression" more than hitting a certain ability as a certain age. As long as, every couple of weeks, you find yourself saying "huh, that's new," I don't think it's a worry. Emma didn't crawl for a long time, compared to some babies who were crawling at 3 months or something ridiculous like that. Really it's only been in the past few weeks that she's perfected her army crawl and started hands-and-knees crawling (which she'll still often ditch for the army crawl, she's faster that way like a little wiggle worm). And she's a week or two older than yours.

As far as feeding, really let Ezra's hunger be your guide. If he wants to nurse again even though he just did thirty minutes ago, let him. Even if you don't have enough milk, all of that nursing will stimulate your body to MAKE more milk.

[j_p_i]

Alicia - wow, what a cutie!! I love your pictures! And although it's been said, I have to agree that it sounds like your DS is developing normally to me. Each baby can be so different, do different things at different times. I definitely wouldn't be worried about his size. DD is 7.5 months and 18 lbs 6 oz. However, she was only 25.5 inches at her last appointment (at 7 months). The ped didn't seem worried, but a medical assistant commented that she was "very petite" and we would have to "keep an eye on her for childhood obesity". Really. I was super upset about this, but have since decided she must have been full of it. DH and I are both short, he's 5'7" and I'm 5'2", not to mention she screams bloody murder and tenses up whenever she is laid down on the measuring contraption.

Olivia has been crawling like a mad-woman, and pulling up to standing on anything she can! She wants to walk so badly, she does this funny bear crawl trying to stand up. She has stood for a couple seconds on her own, not realizing it She loves food now as well, I just made some chips with cheese and have been giving her little pieces of cheese, she loves it!

[Kelly1101]

Originally Posted by j_p_i

The ped didn't seem worried, but a medical assistant commented that she was "very petite" and we would have to "keep an eye on her for childhood obesity".

*enormous eye-roll* Sheeesh.

[~Katie~]

Originally Posted by Kelly1101

*enormous eye-roll* Sheeesh.

If that assistant knew anything about breastfed babies she'd know they actually weigh more than their formula-fed peers up until crawling/walking and will actually slim down and weigh less than FF babies of the same age. Breastfeeding itself actually HELPS reduce obesity. Sheesh is right. If you look at pictures of Liam between 8 or 9 months and a year the change is really dramatic.

[major_mama11]

Alicia- he is adorable and sounds very normal! And about the weight, my DD (now 4) was only 21 pounds at a year- she went from being 95th %ile at birth, down to ~15%ile at one point as a toddler. Our family doc gave me some grief and acted like I wasn't feeding her enough (she refused to eat solids until about 9 mos), but it all worked out. She is now holding steady at 40-50%ile and very healthy. She's just petite like my maternal side of the family, and not really that much bigger than DS, who apparently draws his genes from the big & tall side of DH's family.

We've been short on sleep lately due to DS starting to roll over a lot more while asleep, and that seems to trigger his crawl reflex. The next thing we know, he's hanging off the headboard or on the verge of crawling off the bed. It's cute but really tiring since he does this over and over and over. He rolled over a few times as a young infant, and then stopped until now... When he does sleep, I have a hard time sleeping, because seeing him sleep on his belly all of a sudden makes me really anxious.

[major_mama11]

Originally Posted by KatieJD

Anybody else feel like the time is flying by? I wonder where this tiny baby went, she's growing up way too fast for me.

Yes! I feel relieved that he's getting (mostly) easier to manage and learning new things, but it's hard to believe that those little baby days are already over!

I'm glad she missed your eye! If it makes you feel better about your scratch, I have a big scab on my upper lip where my DS got me the other day! Ouch! And he thinks it's hilarious when we squeal in pain...

[kdtmom2be]

Originally Posted by j_p_i

However, she was only 25.5 inches at her last appointment (at 7 months). The ped didn't seem worried, but a medical assistant commented that she was "very petite" and we would have to "keep an eye on her for childhood obesity".

Um, since when does short equate to obese? sheesh is right.

Originally Posted by major_mama11

I'm glad she missed your eye! If it makes you feel better about your scratch, I have a big scab on my upper lip where my DS got me the other day! Ouch! And he thinks it's hilarious when we squeal in pain...

DS likes to constantly try to pick the mole off of my neck I think that he thinks it's a game now!

[j_p_i]

Originally Posted by Kelly1101

*enormous eye-roll* Sheeesh.

hehe no kidding! I came home and looked at charts for breastfed babies, and she was in the 50th percentile for weight, and 20-25th for height.

I also feel like time is flying by, and I am definitely enjoying each new thing that Olivia does. I feel like she's in a really fun age right now! My mom got me a kelty backpack for christmas, and I've been taking her out in that to walk to the dog, and she loves it! Even fell asleep in it the other day, I could hear her behind my head. I took the pack off when we got home and she was fast asleep, so cute! So we've gone on some nice long walks/hikes, which has been awesome.

[trauerweidchen]

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