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rivkaColin had his six-month well-baby visit today.
His head circumference percentile has increased from 95% to more like 98-99%. His pediatrician recommends another consult with the neurosurgeon.
His weight, on the other hand, has dropped one line on the growth chart. Ped says, not uncommon in an exclusively-breastfed baby between 4 and 6 months.
He wants us to work on getting solids into Colin and consider supplementation. We're to have a measurement follow-up in six weeks. I stopped by Whole Foods on the way home and picked up some oatmeal and some fenugreek capsules to augment my milk supply. If that doesn't work over the next six weeks, we'll argue about whether I should supplement with formula then.
I've been having trouble keeping up with the pumping lately, so it doesn't seem farfetched that I might be having supply issues. (I had been wondering if the pump, which I bought used, was wearing out.) We'll see what a couple weeks of fenugreek does for me.
I really didn't need this when I was already incredibly stressed out.
His head circumference percentile has increased from 95% to more like 98-99%. His pediatrician recommends another consult with the neurosurgeon.
His weight, on the other hand, has dropped one line on the growth chart. Ped says, not uncommon in an exclusively-breastfed baby between 4 and 6 months.
He wants us to work on getting solids into Colin and consider supplementation. We're to have a measurement follow-up in six weeks. I stopped by Whole Foods on the way home and picked up some oatmeal and some fenugreek capsules to augment my milk supply. If that doesn't work over the next six weeks, we'll argue about whether I should supplement with formula then.
I've been having trouble keeping up with the pumping lately, so it doesn't seem farfetched that I might be having supply issues. (I had been wondering if the pump, which I bought used, was wearing out.) We'll see what a couple weeks of fenugreek does for me.
I really didn't need this when I was already incredibly stressed out.
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Date: 2009-08-27 02:39 am (UTC)I'm sorry you're having to go through all this, and especially right now, when you have so many stressors in your life.
FWIW, which may not be anything at all, when I look back at my nursing experience with Liam, I wonder if I should have supplemented. I had terrible supply problems and it was stressful and nervewracking trying to keep up. When he finally really got into solids he gained 4 lbs in a month and went from 50th percentile to 70th percentile very quickly, so I wonder if I was underfeeding him all that time, and if we wouldn't have all been happier if I'd just sent a couple bottles of formula to daycare. But at the time it was literally inconceivable to me that I would do that - it didn't occur to me until at least a year later that it was a) an option and b) might have been a good idea.
Much hugs and sympathy.