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Help.
My daughter turned 12 months old on September 25. She does not really eat solid foods. She takes many tastes but never enough that I could even remotely call it a meal. She just nurses from the breast. Day and night. She poops every day, sometimes more than once and pees. I always thought she was getting enough.
At 10 months old, I had her tested for anemia. She was indeed anemic (8.9 hemo). After 2 months on Floravital, her hemo is 12.5. So no anemia anymore.
At her 10 month appointment, doc was satisfied with her growth. SHe's always been small, a peanut and gained slowly. But she was following her own curve and her head size and height were growing well too.
Yesterday, she had her 12 month visit. She only gained like 3-4 ounces since 10 months. Now, from 10 months on she became mobile, crawling, pulling up, etc. The doctor didn't seem to care about that, he freaked out. He told me I needed to start pumping ALL my breastmilk so I can keep track of how many ounces she is getting. WHAT? She's never had a bottle and I don't pump....I don't respond well to my pump. I tried to explain this but he was rolling his eyes. I got furious and started yelling. THis guy does NOT believe in extended BF, and is ill informed about BF, to be kind. I switched to a new doc who was nice but never returned my phone calls and left on a month long vacation when I needed her tested for anemia. That's why I went back to this guy.
Her head was growing fine still, and I'm not sure about height but I think it is OK too. Honestly there was a lot of defensiveness on my part and the whole thing is kind of a blur (except for the great hemo test, that was nice).
I am starting EI occupational therapy with her on October 5th to get her more interested in solids. (Ei agreed to take us on but said she was borderline during her eval. Every other area was fine, btw.) She loves to play with solids and she'll take tastes off my fingers but she never likes it enough to want to eat them herself. The good news is she likes rich foods, like goat cheese, gravy, mashed potatoes, etc. The bad news is she doesn't love them enough to start chowing down.
I don't know, I was upset to see she barely gained at all in 2 months, but given mobility and a week long trip to Florida where we all traipsed around Walt Disney World in 100 degree heat for a week, I was not horribly shocked, I guess. She just poops a lot and always seems OK, hunger wise. She's too busy getting into things these days. But I want to do what's right here. Ped wants me to cut back drastically on BM and give her solids like 6 times a day. He says I need to be tough here. I think he's misinformed. But I am also scared and so tired of dealing with small babies (my son is a peanut too, but he was eating solids well at a year).
She is about 17 pounds at a year, for those interested. Tiny, but she doesn't look unhealthy at all. She even has a fat roll of each thigh. I dunno. I'm doing the best I can and I am sick of exclusive BF too but how can I deny her the only calories she's getting?
Help.
My daughter turned 12 months old on September 25. She does not really eat solid foods. She takes many tastes but never enough that I could even remotely call it a meal. She just nurses from the breast. Day and night. She poops every day, sometimes more than once and pees. I always thought she was getting enough.
At 10 months old, I had her tested for anemia. She was indeed anemic (8.9 hemo). After 2 months on Floravital, her hemo is 12.5. So no anemia anymore.
At her 10 month appointment, doc was satisfied with her growth. SHe's always been small, a peanut and gained slowly. But she was following her own curve and her head size and height were growing well too.
Yesterday, she had her 12 month visit. She only gained like 3-4 ounces since 10 months. Now, from 10 months on she became mobile, crawling, pulling up, etc. The doctor didn't seem to care about that, he freaked out. He told me I needed to start pumping ALL my breastmilk so I can keep track of how many ounces she is getting. WHAT? She's never had a bottle and I don't pump....I don't respond well to my pump. I tried to explain this but he was rolling his eyes. I got furious and started yelling. THis guy does NOT believe in extended BF, and is ill informed about BF, to be kind. I switched to a new doc who was nice but never returned my phone calls and left on a month long vacation when I needed her tested for anemia. That's why I went back to this guy.
Her head was growing fine still, and I'm not sure about height but I think it is OK too. Honestly there was a lot of defensiveness on my part and the whole thing is kind of a blur (except for the great hemo test, that was nice).
I am starting EI occupational therapy with her on October 5th to get her more interested in solids. (Ei agreed to take us on but said she was borderline during her eval. Every other area was fine, btw.) She loves to play with solids and she'll take tastes off my fingers but she never likes it enough to want to eat them herself. The good news is she likes rich foods, like goat cheese, gravy, mashed potatoes, etc. The bad news is she doesn't love them enough to start chowing down.
I don't know, I was upset to see she barely gained at all in 2 months, but given mobility and a week long trip to Florida where we all traipsed around Walt Disney World in 100 degree heat for a week, I was not horribly shocked, I guess. She just poops a lot and always seems OK, hunger wise. She's too busy getting into things these days. But I want to do what's right here. Ped wants me to cut back drastically on BM and give her solids like 6 times a day. He says I need to be tough here. I think he's misinformed. But I am also scared and so tired of dealing with small babies (my son is a peanut too, but he was eating solids well at a year).
She is about 17 pounds at a year, for those interested. Tiny, but she doesn't look unhealthy at all. She even has a fat roll of each thigh. I dunno. I'm doing the best I can and I am sick of exclusive BF too but how can I deny her the only calories she's getting?
just keep offering stuff. MY dd1 still dont really eat anything and she is 3.5 weighs 28 lbs. your lo is pooping more than once a day? good. then she is getting enough.
But the most important thing is that YOU know your baby is trusting her own body and that her body knows what to do!!!
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