In a message dated 8/16/2003 5:52:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:

> I'm working with a mother of a 9 mo little girl.  She is about 2 months
> pregnant now and her baby hasn't gained any weight since her 6 month check
> up.  From 8.9 kg to 9.0 kg.

If this baby's birthweight was 6lb 8oz and she's now 9 kg, which is almost 20lb (2.2lb per kg), then she's essentially tripled her birth weight. (And there's no way 6-8 was 75th percentile.)

Strange for pediatric care providers to talk about weaning when this older baby was gaining fine until other foods were introduced...(As per others' experiences one of my sons and my grandson were the same and didn't even weigh 9 kg at a year.)

In addition to the great ideas re: other solids/goat milk to work with, is this baby's wake-sleep cycle within normal limits (WNL) for age -- is she alert and active as she should be? Is motor development, vocalization, etc. all within normal? Did the doc do a H&H and was that WNL? Has this baby been ill at all in the "affected" months? Etc.?

Lots more to it than weight gain alone.

Karen

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