Argh.

[rivka]

Colin 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.

Comments

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Can I be your moderate-lactivist advocacy twin? You sound shiny and sane. :->

-- still exclusively breastfeeding at week 28. She shows some very mild enthusiasm for tastes of food, evinces great enthusiasm for shoving anything we put in our mouths in her mouth (though she was v. nonplussed to dump a cup of water over herself the one time we let her TRY, in the bathroom, instead of being Big Meanie Meaniepants and taking the glasses of ice water away from her).

[ailbhe]

I'm not all that moderate - I'd like to see formula advertising wholly illegal and the moneymaking scam that is follow-on milk burnt at the stake. But I'm sane enough to know that formula sometimes saves lives, though perhaps not as many as breastfeeding does, globally, and to recognise when food is food.

[almeda.livejournal.com]

My husband's antipathy to formula was cemented by reading the ingredient list and realizing if it were sold as a food for adults he'd personally reject it on the 'eew, look what's IN it' grounds.

[ailbhe]

It's less likely to make a baby sick than cows' milk, goats' milk, sheeps' milk, or the many honey-and-soy-and-oats concoctions for which recipes abound on the hippie internet.

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know. He's just got a bee in his bonnet about processed foods and the evils thereunto appertaining; me personally, I think a certain level of 'processed' is unavoidable if you want the convenience of long shelf-life, ease of reconstitution anywhere, specifically-engineered nutritional completeness, etc etc.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Honey for a baby under a year?!

[ailbhe]

Do *not* google "make your own formula milk" or anything similar. Really, really not.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

That kind of reasoning leads people to make their own makeshif formulas out of things like raw goat's milk. Curiously enough, the scientifically balanced ones turn out to be more complete.

(Also, this thread is coming perilously close to formula bashing, which I am not willing to host.)