Ummm, because they have rocks in their head???!! I reallly don't know. The photos we have of her is of a plump baby getting progessively plumper to the point where her head now looks triangular on account of her jowls (that sit on her shoulders). I'm assuming that perhaps she has been an unsettled baby that settles well when fed and so therefore they have just keep feeding her more and more in order to settle her? And I'm guessing that after a point the formula stopped working and so they started solids. That's the only explanation I can think of. You know you see large babies and plump babies around the place, but they always look in proportion, you know? So you can say, that's just a large baby, that's just the way they are. My friend's little boy is like that, he was always huge, but in proportion, kwim? But she really just looks utterly overfed!
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BTW - it's not unusual for it to take up to 5 days for milk to come in, Cally. Especially not with the first. When I went home with DD1 on day 4 my milk had not yet come in (not that anyone at the hospital gave two hoots about it). My understanding though is that the colostrum usually meets their needs just fine during that time, if you keep putting them to the breast frequently (ie every time they so much as murmur) and expressing (if there's attachment issues or sleepy baby, etc) then hopefully the milk comes in as it should (although Trill will vouch that sometimes it does not).
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