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Wed, 3 Nov 1999 08:58:25 +0100
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I wonder whether the baby's length has changed over the two week period with slow weight gain.
I seldom see babies who grow equally rapidly in length and weight.  Some seem to just expand like a bread dough and stretch a little now and then, while others just get longer and leaner and occasionally fill out a bit.  Most are somewhere in between so it isn't so noticeable.  Perhaps the WHO study will give us more info on growth rates, be patient!  The patterns I see seem to correlate with different nursing styles in the baby-- the round ones are the kind who just nuzzle up for the long haul and love the breast so much that they prefer to have it in their mouth at all times, while the long lean ones seem to eat and be done with it, twisting around to check out the world around them, the kind who start trying to crawl as soon as you set them on a flat surface, I'm sure you have all seen them.
My point here is that weight is not the only growth parameter, and two weeks is a short time.
Rachel Myr
who has had both the fast and the slow growing kind of nursling, and seen hundreds of others...

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