Oh yeah I forgot to say that as well as looking like a Chinese waiter, I think that Felix is secretly an African baby. He makes funny clicking sounds all the time and I think he is trying to speak Setswana ; )
I wish! You'll have to rent The Gods Must Be Crazy and see if Felix 'speaks' like the San guy, Xaxu I think his name is. We have a card for you from Steve's mom and dad for whenever we see you next.
Certainly not little though - today he weighed in at 15lb 10oz which puts him over the 98th percentile line. The GP wants me to offer him boiled water before every other feed but after some research and advice from my FF buddies (now on www.march07moms.com) I've decided not to. However, I feel kind of weird about not taking the doctor's advice so I'm going to call the health visitor to double check with her.
I feel kind of crappy - like the balance has tipped over from being told I'm doing such a great job and my milk must be mega-dupa brilliant to feeling like I should be worrying about him being fat when he's older : ((
Those charts in the red book? Bin 'em. They're based on formula fed babies from back in the sixties or something crazy. Sadly, doctors put too much stock in them
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I can't open the pdf but I just spoke to my health visitor and she said exactly the same thing - just breastfeeding is better, nature will sort it out when he starts moving and he'll start making less demands anyway. He's on the 75th percentile for length and she reckons that over the next few months he'll settle down to this for weight too. I'm seeing her to have him weighed in four weeks' time.
On a similar note, last night he slept for 5.5 hours! 8 through to 1.30, hooray! Let's hope it isn't a one off. and that's a feed dropped right there.
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Certainly not little though - today he weighed in at 15lb 10oz which puts him over the 98th percentile line. The GP wants me to offer him boiled water before every other feed but after some research and advice from my FF buddies (now on www.march07moms.com) I've decided not to. However, I feel kind of weird about not taking the doctor's advice so I'm going to call the health visitor to double check with her.
I feel kind of crappy - like the balance has tipped over from being told I'm doing such a great job and my milk must be mega-dupa brilliant to feeling like I should be worrying about him being fat when he's older : ((
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On a similar note, last night he slept for 5.5 hours! 8 through to 1.30, hooray! Let's hope it isn't a one off. and that's a feed dropped right there.
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