5 is an exaggerated age that someone else in this thread used as an example. If Leane wants to walk, she'll walk. If she wants to be carried, she'll be carried. I'm not going to force her into anything.
Beleive me, you can't keep a baby in a sling who doesn't want to be there. They are like Clint Eastwood, in "Escape from Alcatraz" nothing can hold them, if they wanna wander. A few of mine tried to jump from the sling, OK kid, so WALK. Babies will walk when they want, and if they tired, they hold up their little arms and say "Hoad ME!" and you do. There isn't a lot of thought involved. It's basically instinct.
Leane almost did a backflip outta her sling when I was picking raspberries the other day, she wanted out so bad! I let her out and she covered the whole lawn in about 5 minutes! she's such a nature baby...at home, she can't sit still and fusses. When we take her outside or to the beach, she is so content in the sand or grass just playing or leaving slug marks in the sand down to the shore, LOL!
LOL I'm another mama with a skinny kid. My son was 29 pounds at 3 years old (with clothes and shoes on)! He was always underweight on those damn charts, but somehow they caught up to him and he's like in the middle on them now.
And I used a walker with my son, although not very much because I had a small house so he couldn't go very far. He was walking on his own at 9 months old. I think all babies are just different. He didn't want to be held all the time, he wanted to be down and explore. He never even let me walk him by holding his hands, the first time I tried that, he took off on his own!
I've got a fat kid. She is 5.5 months old and weighs about 24-25 pounds. She is exclusively breastfed. All she gets is breastmilk. We took her to a ped for her 4 month check up and she weighed 21 pounds! The doctor didn't belive it when I told him all she gets is breastmilk....he also looked at me like I was an alien when I walked in with DD in a wrap and told him that we don't vax
well Abryn's almost 3 months and weighs 15 pounds. I'm sure she might weigh 20 lbs by the time she's 4 months. she doesn't look chubby at all to me, just the way she's supposed to be. also, if you don't mind me asking, how did you decide not to vaccinate? I've been having trouble figuring out what I want to do. I read things about not vaccinating and my doctor tells me other things about why it's important. my grandpa supports me not getting Abryn vaccinated, and my mom and her friend support me only skipping SOME vaccines. at Abryn's two month check up, my doctor talked me into the shots, but while I held her arms and heard her scream from the pain that I was responsible for, I cried and felt like such a traitor that I probably won't ever make her get shots, simply because I don't want to ever put her through that again. I think if she wants the shots when she's older, she can get them. Her opinion should be a central part of such an intimate decision.
I've had trim children and chubby children. All my kids went through that "chubby" stage before they started crawling, and some of them thinned out, and some stayed chubby. One of the Peds in the practice we go to always says (especially of breastfed babies) "The first year or so, growth is somewhat dependent on nutrition, after that genetics take over." I don't know if this is true for ALL babies, but I was a small, but chubby baby, Bear was always TALL and slim, and we have had about every combination of these sizes. My Peds also have NO problem with healthy kids, whether they are 5th percentile, or 95th. I've had both.
Moire's a bit skinny. At her two month, she was 11.5 lbs, 24 inches. Tall and skinny. But she doesn't like to eat too much, and I don't like over-feeding her.
My daughter is a tall and skinny frame. She is not bone thin, and has a very fit body for a almost 3 year old. Muscular and lean. She only weighs 26 pounds, is very healthy, and has an endless supply of energy.
CAN you over feed a baby? I thought that as long as they're happy, they can eat all day if they want to. to me, over feeding a baby seems like if you just stuffed food into them when they cried, even if food isn't what they want. I don't know, I'm just trying to picture over feeding a baby and I don't really know what that exactly means.
you can overfeed....there's actually been women arrested for it! I used to be like that, feeding Leane every time that she cried...I was really clueless and had no idea. Everyone told me that when she put her hands to her mouth, she was hungry, and she did that every time she cried. But she was also drinking upwards of 40+ ounces a day, almost double what she should have. I was finally able to figure her out after a couple months, but in the meantime, I wonder if that's the reason she's so big now......
well what I mean is like, forcing a baby to nurse, when she clearly doesn't want to. that's the only picture I have of over feeding. how the hell can you be arrested for over feeding your baby? I don't understand. I feed Abryn every time she cries. if she nurses, she's hungry. if she doesn't, she's not, right? I don't get it.
Oh, ok, I see what you mean. There's some parents out there that are paranoid their kids aren't eating enough and just feed feed feed. I don't understand the whole arresting parents thing, especially well meaning ones. And the ones who ARE doing it to harm their kids need mental help more than jail, if you ask me. Jail isn't going to fix anything. There was this one documentary I was watching on TLC a few months ago about an 84 pound 3 year old, I think it was. Anywho, they couldn't figure out why this kid kept gaining so much weight and actually investigated the mom for overfeeding! It was later found that he had an incredebly rare disease.
Tamee-I decided not to vax by doing TONS of research. I'm a pharmacy tech so I've read a lot of package inserts-and the more I read the less faith I have in most pharmaceuticals (including vaccines). The vaccination board on mothering.com is very helpful, and 909shot.com is very informative. The CDC website is a wealth of information too. PM me if you want to know more-I'd be happy to help you out
well, yeah, that's all the stuff i've looked at, also. I just have a hard time knowing who to believe. in the end I just believed in my feeling that I was simply betraying my daughter by giving her so much pain for a cause that I don't whole-heartedly believe in.
For me it wasn't the pain involved (although that sucks) it was what is in the vaxes and the adverse reactions that are quite common. There is no way in hell I'm gonna pump aluminum, lead, mercury, etc. into my kid. Not to mention all of the weird genetically engineered animal and human (!) material....the more I learn the more disgusted I get.
Tamee, about the "overfeeding." It can happen with a baby who has to use a bottle. Pretty impossible to overfeed a breastfed baby, as they can control the flow, and your rmilk becomes less copious after about 15 minutes of feeding, usually. Breastfed babies can nurse while getting amost no milk, if they just need to suck. They learn how to to this by about 2 months, or so. Overfeeding is usually due to bottles, as the flow isn't all that variable. Which is why pacis are often more neccesary with a baby who is really "sucky" but for whatever reason needs to be on a bottle. Also, breastfed babies who need bottles while mom is at work will often overfeed, as the flow is SO different. Don't worry, Tamee, you cannot overfeed your little one on the breast.
