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NotDoneYet -> RE: 8 months/underweight (4/25/2008 9:19:26 PM)
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ORIGINAL: peculiar_lady2
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ORIGINAL: HesallIneed
They said she was on the chart but now she's dropping off.
My baby was born at 4lbs. 15 oz. She had gained 5.2 lbs before she left hospital in 2 days.
She had been on the chart and doing good. But now she's dropping(they say).
I've concluded she needs more milk and I need to add a little something else she can eat that has fat in it.
first understand how babies grow...she will go back and forth on the scale/percentile charts....and you will see her growth much better if you understand how they tend to grow. Others can put how their kids do it, but typically this is how my kids have done it.....
as babies they hit a growth spurt about ever two months or so. Typically babies are either developing physically or developing developmentally....so if she is doing more things (like learning a new skill often) then you may not see her growing much physically. They usually go back and forth between growth and development for the full first year of life. So it could just simply be that at the time of her apt she was at one of those times of developing skills instead of growing in size. With mine that didn't/doesn't grow much she still grew at those times when she wasn't learning a new skill, but it wasn't as drastic a growth spurt as mine that was the top of the charts. For her though it was proportionate to what her body needed.
After a year usually the growth goes from every two months to every three to six months....the older they get it kind of tapers out to every six months (usually by about 3 years old or so it is at the every six months place). Now I can pretty much predict that right around their birthday and right around the half year mark they are going to grow more. They tend to first start eating and eating and eating...chunk out (sometimes a LOT), then they will all of a sudden stop eating hardly anything at all. Watch out....don't buy any new clothes or shoes.....they are about to grow!!! Usually with mine it's a time of about two weeks to maybe a month and then all of a sudden the chunkiness they had before is gone almost overnight. I have literally put a kid to bed in something that fit, and when they got up it was too small!!! They seem to grow overnight.....and then the chunkiness is gone again. Then usually within about a week they are back to eating their normal amount of food.
anyway....that's how I have observed over the last 8 years with my own kids....out of my four so far we have one that is off the charts on the top, two that are off the charts on the bottom, and one that is pretty much right in the middle on the charts. So we have them all over the charts...but they all tend to follow that same pattern above.
before suggesting good foods for her....could you answer something for me please....are there any food allergies that run in the family? Has she ever seemed sensitive to anything that she has been given?
my kids did and do the same thing (I have a 5 year old and a 3 year old too)...they get chunky and eat everything in sight...and get "chubby"...then, a couple weeks later, they almost quit eating and they look SO THIN...all their pants are suddenly 2 inches shorter, the tops don't cover their bellies, and their shoes don't fit...I'm hoping that they are both hitting their growth spurt now in the summer...they can wear shorts and sandals...and I won't spend tons of money on new clothes until the fall...both girls are currently in a chubby phase...growth to come. Oh, and it seems their hair grows overnight too...(neither one has ever had a haircut).
NDY
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