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God BG, Adam will probably be that weight at 5 months!!!!
No-body has been more shocked than me MarcellusHowever, in Adam's defence, he was huge at birth 4.47kg and was off the percentile charts, but now he is in the 90th percentile, so believe it or not, I think he is slowing down!!
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That's a good birth weight! A was only 4.29kg, but dropped like a stone on those charts after birth. I just had a really awesome placenta
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E was a dainty poppet til she started solids at 6 months - actually, until the reflux started to settle around 7 months - now she is putting weight on at a great rate - i'm happy - she is a lovely littlle chubba bubba, ave height, 75th percentile weight - and massive head (just like mummy and daddy!)
she loves her solids - but refuses mush! will have yogurt but refuses mashed veg at all. i think i'd get shot down in flames if i tried rice cereal or food from a jar! love that she is little miss independent though - today we all had toasted sandwiches for lunch - makes it so easy that we all eat the same...
is hot here today - migth put her chubby little butt in the pool later i think
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That's good BG - mashing and pureeing is a pain anyway.
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Geez Neptune, Adam is one huge bubba... You must have the strongest biceps carrying him around.
I was just wrapped that Tara has put on some more weight as the MCHN has been a bit critical of me as she was only having 3 bottles a day, but what I could I do I can't force her to have more than she wants. Although she seemed happier today when I told her that Tara is now having a small bottle after she has her solids (although she then won't have a full bottle later on, so she still has the same quantity).
BG: I've been trying Tara on the pre made stuff to see how she went with all the new flavours. I didn't want to purchase a whole heap of stuff to find out she wasn't ready, although I gave her Rafferty's Garden Pear, Banana and Mango today (first time) and she scoffed about 50mls in no time so obviously she likes that one. I'm going to give it a couple more weeks then start trying with the potato, pumpkin and sweet potato. How cool though that E will eat what you have, it must be so much easier to plan meals when you don't have to do seperate meals for her and then you and DH.
Now working out the percentiles, Weight: 75th, Height: 75th, Head: 90th, yep that's one big scone...
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don't worry Kelly - E is 50th for height, 75th for weight, 97th (or above) for her boof head! but she is just perfect anyway!
the eating thing is so much easier on us - except when people assume, becuase she is a baby, that she needs mush (even when you say no) and then they mash her veg and take it personally that she won't eat it! the only thing we've had that she didn't like much was mum's shepherds pie - i don't think she liked the consistency of the meat (it was ground up leftovers, but not much gravy on it) - so she ditche that and had curried pasta instead! i may try her on something like egg custard in a tin eventually, just so i can have something in her bag in case we're out and she eats all of the other food (can't exactly keep yogurt in there!) - but i'm not phased if she never has tin stuff. it is working for us... i know my sil used a mix of fresh and tinned stuff. i guess the only thing i'd suggest is, if you have bubba that likes tin stuff, try to intruduce stuff with more texture (roughly mashed rather than pureed) sooner rather than later - from what she said, her first took a lot more to eat other stuff as she just wanted puree cos it was easy...
sigh - i love my girl! i went to bed with a migraine earlier - she slept for me - the whole time - through a mammoth thunderstorm and everything!
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BG: Thanks for the advice re: introducing the textures. I might try that when I start with the veggies as I can puree them down to a consitency that I think will work. I have already started making her rice cereal thicker as she is having thickened formula she assumed the more runnier cereal was a bottle.
You have such a considerate little girl there to know when mummy needed some time to recover, she seems very in touch with feelings and emotions.
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she is very in touch with my emotions - which is mostly good - except at times when i'm not in a good headspace - she seems to want to be velcro at those times. at the moment, it's pretty full on after a death in the family - but it will get better. she is fine while DH is home to share the attention, but i think i'm not feeling as patient and she is more needing me and the reassurance
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