newsflash: snapper is not a large baby.
i guess it’s to be expected. it’s not like i’m anything but stick skinny. but although she’s been on the low end of the percentile, when her growth curve started slowing at her four month appointment, it planted the seed of worry in our head. but given how much she’s grown since then, she surely must have caught up and be fine by now!
the six month appointment verdict: 12lb, 2oz.
which plunges her off the charts on the small end. doh! the doc says that he’s not sure whether we should all be worried or not. clearly she’s going to be a small baby for the aforementioned reasons. and maybe she just doesn’t have all the extra extra extra fat that most of the other really chubby babies have at this age. she’s certainly growing and alert and behaviorally very advanced.
but just not very big.
i was trying to rationalize it and then getting caught at my insistence that americans are just too damn fat and the same size inflation that causes banana republican to not carry pants that are smaller than 30” waist is the same thing that’s causing snapper to be judged against a scale that is used for corpulent 18lb four month-olds.
then hmc talked some sense into me, and if we can get snapper’s weight up so she has the extra fat in case she needs it, there’s no harm in it. she might be fine without it, but she’ll definitely be fine with a little more meat on her bones.
so now were giving her extra bottles and even doing crazy things like adding olive oil to her solid food. mmmmm yummy calories!
maybe if she wasn’t using all her food to just make more cuteness.
Posted at March 14, 2008 11:54 AM| TrackBack