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doublemama - Monday, 1 December
hey there, my daughter weighed 18.5 lb at her 1 year check up, and was 30.5 inches...doc says that she is perfectly healthy and that just means she gets to eat what she wants!...the more worrysome thing is when they are overweight because that can predict obesity, heart disease, diabetes, etc later in life....in our daughter's case she is just taking after her daddy who is tall and skinny + she is not much of an eater when it comes to solids and just likes her breastmilk/formula/cows milk (she takes all three)...anyway DONT WORRy! :)

theshimel - Thursday, 27 November
hey! i saw you post in the weight forum. you daughter sounds totally normal. my daughter was 19 pounds at a year and totally healthy. that's still about 10th percentile. don;t worry. she;s exactly what you said, healthy, developed exactly where she should be, just small. don;t stress yourself out over it. she;s normal and healthy

smurfwxmama - Thursday, 20 November
Saw your post in the weight forum...and I think your lil girl is just fine. If she's where she should be developmentally and eating just fine then you shouldn't worry too much. I did the same thing with my lil girl, she's forever scrawny lol! I think she may have weighed a little more than your girl at a year but she's always been between the 25-50% curve for her weight. Some kids are just smaller. I saw a little girl a few years ago that was 5 yrs old and she was the size of a 4 yr old but perfectly healthy. My friends daughter is on the short side, she was at the 5% curve for height which concerned the docs a little bit but they monitored her for the next 3 mths and at her 18 mth check up she was up to the 10% curve so they let it go.
So I guess moral is if you think she's doing fine and there isn't anything medically wrong then she's fine, she'll find her froove, she might just be one of those skinny little girls. I know mine is cause of her metabolism, she gets it from her father, he's 5'7" and weights like 142 right now...I weigh more than him and I'm shorter than he is!

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corrin - Friday, 6 June
oh and i just read ur birth story and how they were wrong on the weight...1 week before i was induced they said he weighed 8lb 3 oz...but he came out weighing 9lb 10 oz!!!! how i did it i dont know because im only 5'2 and 120 pounds!!!

corrin - Friday, 6 June
my son isnt in the same boat he was 18lb 10 oz at 14 weeks...but i dont see what the big deal is..mine if at the top of the charts yours is..im assuming..at the bottom...as long as shes healthy and she not acting like shes starving and she has enough dirty diapers....whats the big deal??i wouldnt worry toomuch unless she completly stops eating and starts acting weird...but it sounds like shes just gonna be a skinny minnie!!!lol

myangel - Sunday, 25 May
OMG I AM SOOOOOOOOO IN YOUR SHOES!!! My 7 month old daughter wakes up like 10-15 times a night!!! she goes back to sleep when i give her the pacifier but then she wakes up for a bottle at 4:30...I AM EXHAUSTED.......I would pay for her to sleep threw the night!!!! I HOPE I FIND HELP SOON BECAUSE IM GOING CRAAAAAAZZZZY!!!!!!!!

RobinG - Wednesday, 21 May
Water can be dangerous if to much is given, no reason to give before 7 months but if you must, an oz is fine once a day around 3-4 months but best to just give more milk. Doc told me no reason to give water since milk is fortified water so just give milk, it is healthier ~ water can flush the system of things it needs so can be dangerous. Not sure how old your little one is to answer better, I give Hunter an oz or milk in a sippy cup to introduce the cup :)

readyfor2 - Wednesday, 21 May
You may gave your baby cooled boiled water. My baby is 7 months old and I have been giving him sips of water from a cup since he was 5 months. He loves it! Just remember not to give too much because your baby will "fill up" on water and not be hungry for formula or breastmilk (which provide nutrients).

jennyoaces - Saturday, 17 May
i saw your question about sleeping at night and i have a book to recommend. Sleeping Through the Night, by Jodi Mindell. I've just started implementing the suggestions from the book and it's made a HUGE difference in my 3 month old and a very short time. it is like a modified cry it out method - which I used to be against. I'm very Attachment Paretning oriented, but I can't function being sleep deprived and my older child needs me too. I never let my older son cry it out, he co slept for SO long and I just can't do that again. I loved cuddling my kids but I need sleep too. if you have any questions about the book, or what exactly about it works just msg my page. I'd be happy to answer.

niseybear - Friday, 16 May
Do you have her on solid food yet. When I steady got my son on solids, he started sleeping 9 sometimes 10 hours straight. I would put him down at 7 or so and he would wake around 6am or 7am the next morning. Nearly 12 hours sometime! WOW! Now today he woke up at 3:30 and hubby gave him a bottle for me so I could rest. He woke again around 6:30 and was up for the morning. Now of course, I'm having trouble feeding my son solids for lunch....don't know what happened. He seems to only want it for breakfast and dinner and a bottle for his lunch. I'll just keep him on solids twice a day I suppose until he lets me know something different. LOL Good luck and let me know if I can help in any other way.

Danielle M - Monday, 5 May
Hi there. How have you been doing? Anything new??How is little Emma doing?? Have things gotten any better with her sleeping? I hope so. Is she eating cereal or any other solids yet? If so, how is she doing on them?? We are doing better here. Owen was to the ENT last week and everything looks good so hopefully he will be off of the apnea monitor next week when we go to his appt. Also his head cold turned into bronchitis and he was on a nebulizer and we just finished that up on Friday so things have gotten a little easier. It was crazy there for a while with feeding him solids in the am, then a nebulizer treatment and then I had to pump, etc. He is now eating a variety of solids and seems to be taking to them well. Oh and he is pretty much sleeping through the night in his crib. Once in a while he will get up and I will just go into his room and put my hand on his belly and he goes back to sleep. I have been getting much more sleep and that is helping so much!! He still does not eat off the breast but I am still pumping. That is hard but I still want him to get the breastmilk so I guess I will continue to pump for now. The weather here has been pretty nice so we have been going for alot of walks and staying outside alot. Well, I hope everything is going well on your end. Write back when you get a chance. I hope to talk to you soon. Danielle

~Bridget~ - Wednesday, 23 April
Hey, I am still getting high on my monitor but no peak yet. How are you making out?

maddietx - Tuesday, 22 April
Hi Julia- you are right about it being hard to do if you are away from home, it always screws us up. I should also say that I am fortunate that when I was putting my son down to get him to nap he wasn't really crying (I don't know if I would be able to do it) he just kicks and squirms and "talks" and yells and that is when I was going in to calm him. I am sure it wiould be much tougher to do if he was crying. Twice though, I started crying :) that is when I was just about to give up on the nap thing, and I went in the other room to pull it together and when I came back, he was ASLEEP! I just figured that was when I was giving up before and trying something new (swing, etc. ) so I should just keep with the crib and paci for longer (past my "breaking point" ). My son still isn't completely sleeping through the night (down to one feeding) but it is better. A work in progress!!! Please let me know how it is going.

carla81 - Saturday, 19 April
Hi Julia - I'm sorry that you're having sleep troubles. I had a hard time with my son for the first few months and then when he was 4 months old I went for a day stay at a sleep clinic and the nurse their really promotes them sleeping in their own cots but they don't use the cry it out method ever. Basically they get you to wrap/swaddle your baby, use a pacifier, stroke their head, pat thir chest, talk softly and reassuringly, use sshhh sshhh. When they start to et upset then pick them up, cuddle and rock them a little in your arms until they settle back down, then lay them down again. You keep doing this until they go to sleep. I went there thinking that there was no way it would on Kyan but sure enough we had great success. The 1st time we did it, it took about 50 mins til Kyan fell asleep, the next time it took about 30 mins and now I always have him down betwen 15-25 mins but it's something you have to really stick to so they get used to the routine. It;s also important to recognise tired signs such as rubbing eyes, yawning, fussiness, jerky movements. Kyan gets up around 6-6:30am and he's only awake for about 2hrs when I start to see his tired signs and then I go straight away to put him down. So Kyan's sleep times are: wake at 6:30ish, np at about 8:30-9am, 12-1pm, 3pm, bed 7-7:30pm (I'm not always lucky to get him to have an afternoon sleep). His naps last anywhere from 45mins- 1.5hrs, some times he'll only sleep through 1 sleep cyle which only about 40 mins long. This may not work for you but I found it to be a lifesaver for us, especially because Kyan would NEVER sleep during the day before. I'm also finding that as he's getting older he's sleeping better and longer through the night. Some night he'll a wake-up around 1-2am but most nights he's sleeping through til about 6-6:30am. Hang there honey I really do know how hard it is to be getting any sleep. You could also try co-sleeping. Do you breast feed or bottle feed? I breast fed soley for 5 months and Kyan's now 6 months and fully formula fed and I've found his sleeping has definitely become better since weaning him (not that I'm saying you should wean is you're not ready to), but the formula tends to make them last longer as it takes longer for their bodies to digest it. Good luck, I hope things settle down for you soon xx
I'm so sorry for the essay-long message lol x

Bri - Friday, 18 April
maddietx is right. Track your babies sleeping habits and find out when she is the most tired. Try to create a sleep routine around that. Kekoa wakes up during the week at 6:30 (now on his own) and goes back down around 10 to 11:30ish. Then in the afternoon he sleeps again around 2-3:30 or 4. At night we have a set routine. He is almost 6 months now. So at 7 I give him some bananas or whatever. At 7:15ish we are in the tub. The is nice because we started early (like at a month old) and now he loves Tubby Time. We first wash him in the small tub and then transfer him to the big tub for swim practice. It tires him out and lets him know we are getting ready for bed. After the tub I lotion him up and get his pjs on. I breastfeed him and then off to bed. He is usually asleep by 8-8:30. He now knows that one thing leads to another and if we get off schedule he gets mad. I would try it. Also, once we had a set routine down Kekoa started sleeping long during the night. Good Luck

maddietx - Thursday, 17 April
julia- my son didn't sleep well at night either until he started sleeping better during the day. I got SERIOUS about naps and now he is finally sleeping well. I wrote down everytime he slept, woke up, got cranky, looked tired, yawned, etc like a crazy person for almost two weeks and made a nap schedule and stuck to it. I put him in his crib and just kept going back to calm him and put in the paci a zillion times without picking him up until he went to sleep. It seemed like it took forever but after a few weeks it got soooo much better. The trick is to get them down before they are super tired. that is just what worked with us, hope this helps!!!

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