cathy @ Sun, 2006-11-12 03:18
We took Meg to see the Dr yesterday for her 1 month check-up. She now weighs in at an amazing 8lbs 7ozs meaning that she has gained a full pound in 2 weeks! However, this only puts her in the 25 percentile! Then again she is being compared to American's!!
As Kev points out, the genetics for American's mean that they are bigger as the immigrants were the strongest and fittest originally. I'm not so convinced. Lets face it, there are more diabetics here and obesity is a bigger problem meaning that the babies will be larger if the mothers are bigger. Also the American diet is awful. If you want to be healthy you have to cook everything yourself and that doesn't seem to be the norm from what we've seen. Either way, who cares? Meg is healthy and gaining weight at a good rate so I'm happy.
The only problem we have is that Meg is a bit colicky meaning that she has problems with gas. She has episodes where she is in pain and very hard to comfort. We had one day when all day either myself or Kev had to hold her to comfort her. We did it in shifts. It was haertbreaking to not be able to do more for her. If we don't comfort her quickly after each bout of pain she gets so upset that we then can't console her. The problems started when she went onto formula milk which of course makes me feel bad for not trying harder to breast feed. We have to try different types of formula and see which suit Meg best. Then of course we go home where all the formula milks are different again!
Meg also had her 2nd Hep B vaccine. She really cried out in pain with that one. She now has a big lump on her leg that we have to be careful not to put pressure on. She did however have a reall cute bugs bunny plaster!
Meg goes back to the Dr for a 2 month check when she gets another 3 vaccines. She has to have these early though as we don't want her to feel unwell on the flight home. The Dr thinks that's a good idea and says it won't do any harm to have it a week or so early.