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active baby, introduction of solids and doubling birth weight
H Schinske wrote: FayeC ) wrote: The question is...should I introduce solids at the 6 month mark even if she hasn't doubled her weight gain? I never heard before that doubling one's birthweight had anything to do with readiness for solids. None of mine, biggish babies all, had doubled their birthweights by six months, in fact I think my son was 10 or 11 months before he doubled his (he was born at 9 lbs. 5 oz., so he still was not small). Other babies may double their birthweight by 3 or 4 months of age (in fact I think doubling by 4 months might be the average). My first child's pediatrician mentioned the doubling-the-birthweight as a sign of readiness, but only at the lower end of the timeline. In other words, she thought it was OK to start solids at 4 months if the baby had doubled its birthweight by then. My daughter thought otherwise - she wouldn't have anything to do with solid food at that age. Clisby |
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active baby, introduction of solids and doubling birth weight
DD is 5 months and 1 week now and she is quite the active baby. She sat
without help a couple of weeks ago and she is already on hands and knees, doing the swinging/rocking and trying to figure out how to move forward. She is exclusively breastfed and is about 10 ounces from doubling her birth weigth. Right now she is between the 50 and 75% in weight and at tht 50% in height. She still nurses some 6-8 times a day (sometimes more depending on the day) and is sleeping two stretches of 3-5 hours a night (sleeps from 10 to 3, nurses, sleeps from the time she finishes to 7-8, wakes up). The question is...should I introduce solids at the 6 month mark even if she hasn't doubled her weight gain? She only gained 8 ounces in the last month and I don't know if that is good or bad. She seems to be ready for solids as she is sitting upright just fine, she can pick up objects quite well and she seems to be extremely interested in whatever I am eating (often I eat with her on my lap and she keeps reaching out for the food). Are these the only signs or readiness? Is it related to doubling birthweight? And should the fact that she is so active count when weighing her? I mean...I know all active babies slim down after they get mobile and chances are she'll be crawling before 6 months.... What if that makes her lose weight or not gain much more?? Thanks for any help, FayeC |
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active baby, introduction of solids and doubling birth weight
Hi FayeC
My DD was very similar to yours. She sat up at 4 months, was trying to crawl by 5 months, had doubled her birthweight by 6 months. However, I tried solids at 4 months (too early, I now know!) without any interest at all despite her doing all the things you describe your DD doing. Once the spoon went near her mouth she would turn her head or spit. I left it until 6 months with the same result. My DD has never really been interested in food to be honest. As far as crawling, it takes them a while to figure it out and she may not be crawling by 6 months (my DD tried for a good 2 months before she actually figured out how to crawl forward at 7 months). I am not sure about the doubling weight thing as a sign for solids readiness, although baby center seems to think that's important http://www.babycenter.com/refcap/bab...ing/113.html#1 And anyway, introducing solids is more about exploration and introducing them to different tastes than nutrition, at least in the beginning. Anyway, that's my 2c. I'm sure others have lots to add! CY "Wayne Tarzwell" wrote in message .. . DD is 5 months and 1 week now and she is quite the active baby. She sat without help a couple of weeks ago and she is already on hands and knees, doing the swinging/rocking and trying to figure out how to move forward. She is exclusively breastfed and is about 10 ounces from doubling her birth weigth. Right now she is between the 50 and 75% in weight and at tht 50% in height. She still nurses some 6-8 times a day (sometimes more depending on the day) and is sleeping two stretches of 3-5 hours a night (sleeps from 10 to 3, nurses, sleeps from the time she finishes to 7-8, wakes up). The question is...should I introduce solids at the 6 month mark even if she hasn't doubled her weight gain? She only gained 8 ounces in the last month and I don't know if that is good or bad. She seems to be ready for solids as she is sitting upright just fine, she can pick up objects quite well and she seems to be extremely interested in whatever I am eating (often I eat with her on my lap and she keeps reaching out for the food). Are these the only signs or readiness? Is it related to doubling birthweight? And should the fact that she is so active count when weighing her? I mean...I know all active babies slim down after they get mobile and chances are she'll be crawling before 6 months.... What if that makes her lose weight or not gain much more?? Thanks for any help, FayeC |
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active baby, introduction of solids and doubling birth weight
FayeC ) wrote:
The question is...should I introduce solids at the 6 month mark even if she hasn't doubled her weight gain? I never heard before that doubling one's birthweight had anything to do with readiness for solids. None of mine, biggish babies all, had doubled their birthweights by six months, in fact I think my son was 10 or 11 months before he doubled his (he was born at 9 lbs. 5 oz., so he still was not small). Other babies may double their birthweight by 3 or 4 months of age (in fact I think doubling by 4 months might be the average). She only gained 8 ounces in the last month and I don't know if that is good or bad. Sounds okay to me. I just got out my twins' old health records, and they were in for checkups at 4 months and at 6.5 months, and between those visits one of them gained a pound and six ounces, but the other gained only seven ounces. They were both completely normal and healthy. The one who had gained less had just learned to crawl at six months, and had been working at it feverishly. I think she had just burned it up. She had been the larger of the two at birth, and at 6.5 months weighed only 11 ounces less than her sister. By the 10-month visit she was only 4 ounces behind her sister, who had gained 3.5 pounds to her 4. --Helen |
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active baby, introduction of solids and doubling birth weight
Well Faye I have had Izabella on soilds since about 3 weeks ago or so, and
she loves it. I dont think that doubling the birth weight has anything to do with it at all. And being mobile is a good thing. I guess itw ould be a way for her to burn it off, thats what Izabellas pedi told us. He told us that we would know the signs for when shes ready to eat, she will show us. She was sitting up right, crawling, and all the time grabbing food if it was in arms reach, and if it was not she was holding both arms out as if she was grabbing at it. Than we knew she was ready. Judge yourself I guess is the best advice. Try it with her, worse case if she does not like it you try again tomorrow. Good Luck -- Laura Mommy to Izabella **Feb 10th, 2003** And 2 felines *Ashes(2) & George (4)* http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/i/izabellawelburn/ "Wayne Tarzwell" wrote in message .. . DD is 5 months and 1 week now and she is quite the active baby. She sat without help a couple of weeks ago and she is already on hands and knees, doing the swinging/rocking and trying to figure out how to move forward. She is exclusively breastfed and is about 10 ounces from doubling her birth weigth. Right now she is between the 50 and 75% in weight and at tht 50% in height. She still nurses some 6-8 times a day (sometimes more depending on the day) and is sleeping two stretches of 3-5 hours a night (sleeps from 10 to 3, nurses, sleeps from the time she finishes to 7-8, wakes up). The question is...should I introduce solids at the 6 month mark even if she hasn't doubled her weight gain? She only gained 8 ounces in the last month and I don't know if that is good or bad. She seems to be ready for solids as she is sitting upright just fine, she can pick up objects quite well and she seems to be extremely interested in whatever I am eating (often I eat with her on my lap and she keeps reaching out for the food). Are these the only signs or readiness? Is it related to doubling birthweight? And should the fact that she is so active count when weighing her? I mean...I know all active babies slim down after they get mobile and chances are she'll be crawling before 6 months.... What if that makes her lose weight or not gain much more?? Thanks for any help, FayeC |
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active baby, introduction of solids and doubling birth weight
"Wayne Tarzwell" wrote
The question is...should I introduce solids at the 6 month mark even if she hasn't doubled her weight gain? There's no way that doubling birth weight can be related to introducing solids since dd doubled hers weeks ago. She was born at 5 lbs. 9 oz. and currently (at 15 nearly weeks) weighs 13 lbs. 3 oz. Although, obviously, I'm not there yet, I'd wait to introduce solids until your daughter seems to be interested in them and seems to want to eat herself. She can thrive on nothing but breast milk for a long time. -- Melissa (in Los Angeles) Mum to Elizabeth 4/13/03 |
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active baby, introduction of solids and doubling birth weight
Hi - A poster talked about how the individual child varies, and so does their readiness for solids. Therefore, she said, sometimes it's okay to introduce solids as early as 4 or even 3 months of age. I have to disagree. Although in many ways a child may be ready for solids quite young, the key readiness factors (sealing of the gut, appropriate development of the immune system), which avoids food allergies and similar complications) is simply not visible. With that one, you're playing Russian Roulette. You HOPE that you are delaying solids long enough (at 4-6 months) to avoid these kinds of complications, but you can't know until you get there. By 4 months of age, the odds are in your favor. By 6 months they're way in your favor. But even then, if you have a family history of allergy, you're advised to wait until at least 7 months of age to introduce anything other than breastmilk. Yes, many individual children may be ready much earlier. But you can't tell by looking. My two cents, --Beth Kevles http://web.mit.edu/kevles/www/nomilk.html -- a page for the milk-allergic Disclaimer: Nothing in this message should be construed as medical advice. Please consult with your own medical practicioner. |
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Age for walking (was active baby...)
Wayne Tarzwell wrote:
Where I was born the average age for babies to start walking is 9 months. I don't think it's true. I think you've just known an unusual proportion of early walkers. The average age for walking has always been 12-13 months. And my understanding is that this is pretty much the average for babies worldwide, not just in the US/Canada. The normal "range", IIRC, is 8-16 months. IOW, it's within the normal range for babies to walk well before one year of age and it's also in the normal range for them to walk well after one year of age. For the average age of walking to be 9 months, you'd have to have a significant proportion of babies walking at 6-7 months to balance out the babies who walked at 10-12 months, and I just don't think that's the case anywhere in the world. It's certainly possible that 9 months is the average age for children in *your* family (genetics plays a role), but I doubt it's possible for 9 months to be average for an entire country when it's so much later elsewhere in the world. I think that culture also play a big part on the motor development. We tend to give more freedom to babies througout the year by allowing them to remain almost unclothed and allow tons of floor time. It's true the culture plays some role. But in American and Canadian culture, babies are afforded plenty of opportunities to play on the floor and explore. They're not being "stunted" in their development. To the contrary, it is probably *more* "normal" for babies in their first year to spend most of their time being carried by an adult and *not* on the floor playing. Think about the conditions under which humans have typically lived and you'll appreciate why this is the case--people didn't live in houses with clean floors, but in caves and huts with dirt floors. It's unsafe to allow babies to spend much time on the ground when the ground is covered with pebbles, rocks, leaves, and a thousand other either poisonous or chokable items they might put in their mouths. And to this day, you find babies are mostly carried in cultures that are more traditional/less industrialized. In traditional society, for example, babies aren't even put on the floor until they are a year old, when there's a big party to celebrate the first time the baby's feet are put on the ground. I honestly don't think the snow in Canada has much to do with it. I live in Southern California where there's no snow and a very temperate climate. Both of my "normal" kids (I have one who had some muscle issues that caused motor delays and therefore walked very late) walked at right around 13 months. My youngest didn't actually crawl until a week before he turned 1, but then was walking 6 weeks later. His cousin (3 weeks older) was crawling at 8 months and spent practically every waking minute on the floor and in motion from that point forward, but *he* didn't walk until he was over 14 months old (he was just such a good crawler, he didn't see the point!). Here, I know babies who have walked at every age within the normal range (and even one that walked at 7 months--that was scary!). And none of the ones who walked *after* 9 months were in any way "delayed" from walking by something their parents did. It was -- Be well, Barbara (Julian [7/22/97], Aurora [7/19/99], and Vernon's [3/2/02] mom) See us at http://photos.yahoo.com/guavaln This week's special at the English Language Butcher Shop: "How a seller can improve their home's value" -- newspaper headline What does it all mean? I have *no* idea. But it's my life and I like it. |
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