Mmmmmm, isn't it nice to know that all over the world some things are just the same?? My 2 and a half year old was born small for gestational age at 37 weeks, 2 kgs, after IUGR was discovered in the 30th week of pregnancy. He did gain a kilo (2.2 lbs) a month for the first few months, always on his own curve below the "normal " curves, and that pleased the HCP's . However when his weight gain slowed down after the 5th or sixth month of age, I could see the looks of the nurses....the suggestions started coming..."He probably would eat more solids if you nursed less," or "try to give him lots of fried foods, put butter and oil in the food," or "Give him lots of couscous and fatty meat. I like fat children!" I even got looks of disapproval when the nurse had to give him his vaccination in his thin thigh- like couldn't I fatten him up so it would be easier to do it? Oh, yes, let's not forget, at a year,"Oh, he nurses just for comfort, no? (In Hebrew the word used comes from the root for the verb "to spoil") " The fact that he was healthy, VERY active (still is in perpetual motion!), developmentally on target, doing everything he was "supposed " to do, was irrelevant. Considering that I was already relatively knowledgable about bfdg, an RN, a mother of five, and had already been thru the whole route of thinking that every word said to me by any HCP is neccesarily based on up to date accurate information and research, and finding out that more often than I would like to think, the opposite is true- I just nodded my head and went my merry way. I shudder to think what a new inexperienced and perhaps uninformed mother does in the same situation. By the way, at 2 and a half he weighs approximately 12 kgs,(approx 26.5 lbs). Skinny, wiry, no fat that I can see, and thinner that all of his siblings. Healthy, etc. So what? Have a great weekend, Jennie *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html